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 ...
Use Music to Fight Cybercrime: 'Maga No Need Pay' By Roger Halbheer, on February 9th, 2010 When I travel through Africa, the high piracy rate is often something we address. Not necessarily from a commercial perspective but much more from a security angle. We know that pirated software is often infected with malware and therefore used for criminal activities. However, the discussion is a difficult one as a lot of people do not really see the value of software as you cannot touch it. I sometime face discussions like a customer telling me that they hired a consulting company to assess their security and now they want Microsoft’s help to fix the problems. We we talk about Microsoft Consulting Services, the customer tells me: “I am paying so much for your software, why do I have to pay for consultants as well?”. It is often clear for them that consulting has a price but the value of software is what we have to “sell” there.
Now, the government of Nigeria and Microsoft started to use music to fight Cybercrime (not only piracy). This is a thrilling way to spread the word and to address the target audience – something I think you should look at.
Here you find the press release by the Nigerian government: EFCC, Microsoft, Employ Music To Fight Cybercrime
The music clip can be found here.
And finally, a blog post but Tim Cranton, an Associate General Counsel at Microsoft: ‘Maga No Need Pay’: Nigeria Gets Creative to Fight Cyber Scams
Have a lot of fun
Roger
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