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 ...
By Roger Halbheer, on October 30th, 2009% Just a brief one: the Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series has been updated to incorporate Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7. So, to help you to manage security and compliance in your environment, you should have a look at it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/cc835245.aspx
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By Roger Halbheer, on October 29th, 2009% Recently we announced the availability of the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit. This is a toolkit which makes it easier to defend your application on different levels – free of charge. Read the post done by our Security Research and Defense guys: Announcing the release of the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit
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By Roger Halbheer, on October 28th, 2009% At the moment I invest a lot of my time in a Whitepaper on Client and Cloud Security. There are a few fundamentals, which are already clear to me:
You will not be able to run a trusted cloud ecosystem without a trusted client and trusted interactions. So, the End to End Trust model is . . . → Read More: Secure Datacenter, Secure Cloud, Secure Government
By Roger Halbheer, on October 26th, 2009% Get ready for the swineflu:
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By Roger Halbheer, on October 22nd, 2009% This morning I read the following article: Microsoft can help kill fake antivirus threat. And interesting approach. The proposal is that we could white-list all the legitimate security software within the OS in order to make it harder to trick the user. Well, would this work? I am not so sure:
First of all, what . . . → Read More: Could Microsoft solve the scareware problem?
By Roger Halbheer, on October 18th, 2009% 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.
Security — you hear about it every day. Being responsible for information security can be a daunting . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 3 – But how do I?
By Roger Halbheer, on October 16th, 2009% COFEE is a tool available to Law Enforcement only to capture online evidence with a little training as possible. The idea behind the tool is, that there is little need for high-trained staff to be available during e.g. house searches and that a normal, much less trained officer can capture all the data. Until today, . . . → Read More: COFEE now distributed via a NW3C as well
By Roger Halbheer, on October 14th, 2009% Beginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the conclusion, that there most probably is: Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching?
Now, the Business . . . → Read More: Software Piracy – A Threat to Security!
By Roger Halbheer, on October 14th, 2009% Quite a while ago I blogged about the SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit. I just wanted to make you aware that this toolkit is now moved to Codeplex and can be found here: http://cks.codeplex.com/
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By Roger Halbheer, on October 7th, 2009% The development in Africa especially with the new broadband services to me is a huge chance for the whole continent.
I just found this map on the next two years:
source: IntelFusion
Even though I have not been in Africa over the last few months, I heard that in different cities fiber . . . → Read More: The Africa Cable – A Chance for Africa! – A Threat for the Internet?
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