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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 ... 
You know my opinion on collaboration between countries, on public-private-partnerships as well as on collaboration between companies. Since quite a while we run a program called MAPP – the Microsoft Active Protections Program, where we share vulnerability information with security vendors to help them to get signatures out to our joint customers the moment we . . . → Read More: Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats This is always a fairly emotional theme. What is better to protect the ecosystem? Public or private disclosure? Should somebody paying for vulnerabilities or not? Is a vulnerability auction ethical or not? I know that there are numerous views on that and I do not want to debate them here and now. What I just . . . → Read More: How to Deal With Vulnerabilities After my overall announcement that we grow the community in Off to See the World, and Stuart Aston joining as the CSA in the UK, it is a great pleasure to see Magnus Lindkvist coming back. Magnus was the CSA in Sweden a few years back and accepted the offer now to come back and . . . → Read More: Chief Security Advisor in Sweden: Magnus is back As you have seen in my post Off to see the World, we are hiring Chief Security Advisors all over the place. The first one was announced last week: Stuart Aston was announced to take over the Chief Security Advisor in the UK. Have a good start! Roger And everybody tells me how secure they are….. So,according to this article Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today, apple hast most vulns, then Oracle and then us (and then the rest). And you know, the interesting thing is that the comparison is not “apples with apples” as we tend to . . . → Read More: Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today Even though it might be obvious, compliance is not only about protecting data but identities as well – and more. Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics, whom I value high, wrote a good article: Doing the right thing on ID management isn’t enough… – you should read it! Roger The Department of Homeland Security published a report on A Roadmap for Cybersecurity Research, I was definitely impressed! All the themes, which are important to me are in their list : Scalable trustworthy systems (including system architectures and requisite development methodology) Enterprise-level metrics (including measures of overall system trustworthiness) System evaluation life cycle (including approaches . . . → Read More: US Cybersecurity Research! You know that I am not a big fan of blocking social networks within enterprises for different reasons. I just read an article on this subject based on a study by Trend Micro. One of the conclusions in the article is: Trying to just prevent users accessing social networks from work could potentially increase the . . . → Read More: Blocking Social Networks? Think Again… I just wanted to remind you: The support for Windows XP SP2 ends today. I hope that this does not catch you by surprise. If you need all the information about which kind of support ends when for which product, please consult out Lifecycle page. If you have a Premier Support contract with us, your . . . → Read More: Support for Windows XP SP2 ends today! If you follow my blog you saw recently that there are two themes constantly popping up: One is everything about a government’s Cybersecurity Agenda (or the lack thereof) and the second one is the Cloud. Let me briefly line them out: When I talk to governments I often feel that there is a lack of . . . → Read More: Off to See the World |
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