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 ...
Why Google Won’t Beat Microsoft on Cloud Collaboration By Roger Halbheer, on June 27th, 2010 Well, it is not me saying that, it is actually Clint Boulton, eWeek. He published an article on 10 Reasons Why Google Won’t Beat Microsoft in Cloud Collaboration and they are:
- Microsoft Is Big, Getting Bigger
- Local Still Preferable?
- Microsoft Now Lives in the Cloud
- Bang for the Buck Lies with Microsoft
- Serena Said It and Did It (Serena moved from Microsoft to Google Apps and then came back to our Cloud solution)
- Limited Browser
- Customer Service
- Enterprise?
- Google Billboards?!
- Good Enough
I do not agree with all the points but what is really interesting to me is that he does not really talk about security. I am convinced that there have to be a few areas where the solutions of the different cloud providers have to be compared like the security and transparency of the the way the Cloud is run (e.g. we are ISO 27001 certified), the ability to federate the identities from on-premise to the Cloud (ask your provider), monitoring and management from the client to the server on premise to the cloud…
I am convinced that this discussion will change fairly soon as well!
Roger
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- Identity in the Cloud
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