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 ...
By Roger Halbheer, on April 21st, 2010% I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud, which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, an investigation of the attacks on the office of the Dalai Lama and some governmental bodies. The report is written by two bodies who had the privilege to investigate those . . . → Read More: A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?
By Roger Halbheer, on April 21st, 2010% We just opened the Beta for Windows Intune, your new PC management and security solution in the cloud. Here is a screenshot if the web console:
So, go and sign up for the Beta: http://www.microsoft.com/online/windows-intune.mspx
Roger
. . . → Read More: Manage your PCs in the Cloud – Sign up for Windows Intune Beta
By Roger Halbheer, on April 19th, 2010% I am one of the grounded people. Luckily for me, I would have had to fly out today and am now “stuck” at home. It is not so fortunate for the event organizer which has a significant amount of sessions he has to do on LiveMeeting now. On the other hand, maybe that this is . . . → Read More: What we can learn for the volcanic cloud for information security
By Roger Halbheer, on April 14th, 2010% I am really against banning social media – especially with the reasoning of the work performance. To me, this is a management job, not a technology job and by banning social media to make people more productive – I doubt that this is really successful.
Now, I read this article: Why Banning Social Media . . . → Read More: Banning Social Media – a good idea?
By Roger Halbheer, on April 9th, 2010% I recently blogged about the Beta version of our Security Compliance Manger, helping you to manage the security baselines in your organization. There are some screenshots in the corresponding post: Making the Management of Security Compliance Easier!
Now, we released the final version of it. It can be found here: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager
Roger
. . . → Read More: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager: Now available!
By Roger Halbheer, on April 6th, 2010% If would like to start with an important statement: This is the first blog post I made with a disclaimer to start with. The content of this post is not an official Microsoft position and might not reflect the Microsoft opinion!
Let’s have a chat about piracy. When I look at my neighborhood, I often . . . → Read More: Piracy and Legal Consequences
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