Monthly Archives: November 2009

Security and Usability

Posted on 26/11/2009 by Roger

It is not a new concept: The secure way is only secure if it is the easiest way. I have seen a lot of solutions which are extremely secure – in the eyes of the security people. However, the users … Continue reading →

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Talking about Transparency – Windows Azure Dashboard

Posted on 20/11/2009 by Roger

This is a nice feature – on this page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/support/status/servicedashboard.aspx we show the current state of our Azure services. This is the kind of transparency (on the operations’ side) we need. There is much more needed with regards to process … Continue reading →

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Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google’s Chrome OS

Posted on 19/11/2009 by Roger

To be clear upfront: This is not a “Microsoft versus Google” post. I cannot even judge how far Google pushed security with the Chrome OS. But the following article raised quite some questions how we look at security: Inside the … Continue reading →

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Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 4 – I want to learn!

Posted on 13/11/2009 by Roger

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. Use these … Continue reading →

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COFEE freely downloadable on the Internet?

Posted on 10/11/2009 by Roger

You definitely have heard of COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) which we make freely available to Law Enforcement through Interpol and NW3C. Now, the probably unavoidable happened and the tool leaked to the Internet. There was actually an interesting … Continue reading →

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International Collaboration on Policies for Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Posted on 05/11/2009 by Roger

Since a few years we are working with the Council of Europe in a partnership to help to drive a Cybersecurity treaty. We realize that a problem a lot of Law Enforcement agencies have is inconsistent legislation which makes is … Continue reading →

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Power of Knowledge: Security Intelligence Report v7

Posted on 02/11/2009 by Roger

It is a good tradition since quite a while that we make the intelligence we have available accessible to the broad public. This will help out customers to protect themselves much better. The Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is built on … Continue reading →

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