This is a private post – and does not really have a lot to do with my job at Microsoft. Well, a little… A friend of mine – actually the EMEA Security PR guy at Microsoft – is an addicted dart player and participates often in dart tournaments. Which has a big advantage for me: . . . → Read More: Raise Money for Cancer Research
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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 ... 
I was reading a paper recently, where I initially thought it is a joke (it looked scientifically, therefore I was not too scared). But as our research department did it, it is serious and really, really good – at least it definitely made me think. It is called So Long, And No Thanks for the . . . → Read More: Why Today’s End-User Education Fails! I blogged on Day 1 and Day 2 but as I expected, I was unable to blog yesterday on the conference. However, let me just briefly give you my impression of the final day: The core part of this last day was a whole block on Cloud Computing. There were different presentations on the subject . . . → Read More: Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) – Key Messages And the second day starts. I just met with Jeremy Kirk from IDG and it is great to see that the press is actually interested in such a conference as well. The day today started with a long session on different initiatives against cybercrime. A lot of good information: Interpol offers quite some good . . . → Read More: Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 2 As you saw from previous posts, I am at the Octopus Conference on Cooperation against Cybercrime at the moment. We had yesterday the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe and one of her key statements was that different bodies (like the Council of Europe, UN etc.) should not compete. The Budapest convention by . . . → Read More: Council of Europe: We need ONE Cybercrime Convention A few years ago, the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime was signed within the Council of Europe. Since then it was ratified all across the globe by a lot of countries or at least used as the base for legislation. Since a few years as well, the Council of Europe is organizing a conference on Cooperation . . . → Read More: Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 1 I once wanted to text Windows 7 XP Mode on my notebook or my home PC but unfortunately I failed as both CPUs do not support Hardware Assisted Virtualization (HAV). Now, we released an update for Windows 7 64bit systems to remove this requirement: Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB977206). This could . . . → Read More: Run Windows 7 XP Mode on CPU’s without virtualization I was recently pinged by a customer asking for the “real” version of this game. It was distributed at RSA in the US and I do not have any anymore – but you can still print it yourself. So, if you want to introduce SDL or if you introduced it already and want to . . . → Read More: Want to introduce the Security Development Lifecycle? Play a Game On February 24th we announced the work we did on taking down Waledac – read Tim Cranton’s blog post called Cracking Down on Botnets. Now it is time to look back and try to understand what we learned so far. sudosecure traces the Waledac infections and give a good view of new infections by the . . . → Read More: Results of Operation b49 (Botnet Takedown) |
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