Well, the title is not completely from me – I just quoted another blog post. I wrote recently on Why Windows 7 XP Mode makes sense from a security perspective and was even quoted on the register. The “funny” thing was the history of that blog: I was readying some Tweets and blogs where XP . . . → Read More: Windows 7 XP Mode – Sophos error: facts not found
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Consumerization of IT–How to address thisBring 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 MicrosoftBefore 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 XPI 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 SecurityA 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 ... 
Our EMEA Security Program Manager, Henk van Roest, started this series internally and with his consent I am publishing it here in my blog as I think it contains a lot of great information for you to use. Returning to the theme of deploying security updates once more, we need to look at the potential . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 1 – Data Breaches This is a pretty interesting survey: Future of the Internet III: How the Experts See It Here are the key findings: The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020. The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield . . . → Read More: The Future of the Internet in 2020 Henk van Roest, our EMEA Security Program Manager is running a pretty successful internal blog. Before summer vacation he started a series called “Why it pays to be secure” which I think has some great information in it. I asked him then to go public with it but he told me that he is not . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Introduction NSSLabs just recently published a study on browser security with regards to Phising and Malware protection, which we comissioned. To take it upfront: The whole methodology is transperent and therefore rather than challenging the results, let’s learn from them how we can improve. As I do not want to take the joy away for . . . → Read More: Internet Explorer 8 best to protect customer I just stumbled across an interesting blog post named Legal Implications of Cloud Computing. I am not a lawyer and therefore unable to judge the details but overall it gives a good view of the risks and challenges. Roger I have to admit: When I first learned about Windows 7 XP Mode I was quite surprised. How can we actually ship an XP Virtual Machine with Windows 7? Well, then I started to think (no, it did not hurt too much )… But before I share my findings with you, let me tell you . . . → Read More: Why Windows 7 XP Mode makes sense from a security perspective That’s new: We have Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Common Criteria EAL 4+ certified. The new thing is that we certified it in Germany by the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik). You can find the report here: https://www.bsi.bund.de/cae/servlet/contentblob/612768/publicationFile/35487/0570a_pdf.pdf Roger Not really serious – just fun (or isn’t it??): Roger I know that these news are not new but I was away when we announced it and to me it is important enough to take it up afterwards. Over the last few months we worked on a document explaining everything which is going on around an Update Tuesday. So, what is an Advanced Notification, what . . . → Read More: The Microsoft Security Update Guide |
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