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 ...
The "Year-2010"-Problem: Failure of ATM cards! By Roger Halbheer, on January 6th, 2010 When the industry prepared for the Year 2000, I was working in a consulting company living good from doing reviews on Y2k-projects. Then the year 2000 came and nothing happened (besides a big party).
Then year 2010 came – and the bug actually got hold of us. Initially I thought that I was reading a joke but it seems to be true. The German Sparkassen (a banking brand) had a problem with their ATM cards: The Gemalto chip on the card was unable to process the year correctly and failed to give you money.
I do not know how you handle your daily money consumption but here in Switzerland you are able to pay almost everywhere with your debit (say ATM) card. So, the cash I have with me is very limited and I run into a serious problem if I cannot pay with plastic. Additionally to get to money – you need the card again. And finally I often rely on the fact that I can get local currency in a lot of countries with my debit card.
This really causes some serious troubles and – at the end of the day – affects the critical infrastructure of a country – all of a sudden and without pre-warning.
If you are able to read German, here are two articles about it. Unfortunately I did not find anything in English:
Roger
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