10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ...
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XP
I would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ...
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and Security
A long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ...
Cybersecurity–More than a good headline
A lot of governments all across the globe are working on starting, restarting or pushing their Cybersecurity initiative. What often concerns me is, that the last real headline has more impact on the strategy and the themes to be addressed than a structure or a plan or a strategy.
This made us thinking about what is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ...
Challenging the 10 Immutable Laws of Security By Roger Halbheer, on October 11th, 2008 You probably know them: The 10 Immutable Laws of Security, we published I think around 2000 and they were often cited. They are:
- Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it’s not your computer anymore
- Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it’s not your computer anymore
- Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it’s not your computer anymore
- Law #4: If you allow a bad guy to upload programs to your website, it’s not your website any more
- Law #5: Weak passwords trump strong security
- Law #6: A computer is only as secure as the administrator is trustworthy
- Law #7: Encrypted data is only as secure as the decryption key
- Law #8: An out of date virus scanner is only marginally better than no virus scanner at all
- Law #9: Absolute anonymity isn’t practical, in real life or on the Web
- Law #10: Technology is not a panacea
Now Jesper Johansson (who formerly worked for Microsoft) started to look into them and is wondering how the changed landscape as well as the changed technology impacts these laws. He started with the first 3 and it is definitely worth to have a look at his essay:
Security Watch Revisiting the 10 Immutable Laws of Security, Part 1
Roger
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