Consumerization of IT–How to address this
Bring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ...
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 ...
Octopus Conference on Cybercrime By Roger Halbheer, on March 10th, 2009 Well, it is actually not “on Cybercrime” but on “Cooperation against Cybercrime” 
Today and tomorrow this conference takes place at the Council of Europe in Strasburg. The Council of Europe developed a convention on cybercrime, which is actually very good and helps to harmonize legislation. Unfortunately the convention is not yet ratified in a lot of countries – which is unfortunate.
What is very nice to see is, that there are a lot of people joining this conference from all the different organizations involved: Politics, Law Enforcement (e.g. Europol and Interpol), the private sector and academia from all across the globe. We just ran through the opening speeches and it is good to see that all the speakers (Europol, Microsoft, Kaspersky) all agree that a tighter coalition is needed and – in addition – new ways of partnerships are necessary to fight cybercrime. This does not mean that the enforcement power will shift. This has to remain with the police and as such with the government. But often the technology vendors have the pieces of information to connect the money trail with a technically complex crime.
Roger
Related posts:
- Europol High Tech Crime Experts Meeting 2008
- SANS Commits $1 Million to Fight Cybercrime in Developing Countries
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