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 August 26th, 2010% I really love reading Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog. Fairly often it is thought provoking…
He recently wrote about his experience with the new iPhone privacy policy: Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location. He was one (probably of the very few) reading the privacy policy and found the following statement:
Collection and Use of . . . → Read More: Do We Really Want Privacy?
By Roger Halbheer, on August 24th, 2010% I think I told the story thousands of time and everybody knows it but I will do it the 1001st time now . When I joined Microsoft and became what is the Chief Security Advisor for Switzerland today, we had an airlift for Windows Server 2003. The Product Manager in Switzerland asked me to keynote . . . → Read More: The Importance of Application Security
By Roger Halbheer, on August 24th, 2010% Steve Ballmer was once asked by a journalist whether and why he allows blogging by Microsoft employees, without any approval process. His answer was that he lets Microsoft employees talk to customers without approval process as well (at least that’s the story which was told ).
You know that I am a big fan of . . . → Read More: The Risk of Blogging
By Roger Halbheer, on August 18th, 2010% Sometimes I wonder whether I am too paranoid. I just got a call, which went like that:
Caller: “Hello, we are doing a health insurance survey and have just three questions for you, would you mind to join in? Just 20 seconds. We do it for Health Insurance statistics.” Me: Was in a very good . . . → Read More: Am I Too Paranoid?
By Roger Halbheer, on August 17th, 2010% It is an interesting and difficult question. What can we do to really be able to stay on top? Or shall we give up? Well, clearly, I do not think so.
I read this article today, which really made me think: Black Hats are Winning, Symantec Says – wow! A fairly clear statement. We lost . . . → Read More: Are We Losing the Fight Against Cybercrime?
By Roger Halbheer, on August 16th, 2010% I am convinced that there are workloads that can and should be moved to the Cloud: For security reasons as well as for economical reasons. E-Mail might well be the first one of them.
There is a good post on that: Editor’s Note: Email, the Lowest-Hanging Fruit of the Cloud
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on August 14th, 2010% I blogged often about it: Blocking certain websites today can fire back in different ways. The CIO published an article called Workarounds: 5 Ways Employees Try to Access Restricted Sites – and they say:
“Some workarounds can be dangerous because they might create a channel that data can flow out through that is not managed . . . → Read More: Blocking Social Media Sites–a False Sense of Security?
By Roger Halbheer, on August 11th, 2010% If you do not know this blog, it is definitely worth looking at it from time to time: Paleo-Future.
There I found a prediction on cybercrime dated 1981:
It describes the impact of computers in the “future” – say today. If you click on the picture, you can see the original.
There is . . . → Read More: The Future of Cybercrime
By Roger Halbheer, on August 10th, 2010% This month it is pretty important to read the Security Research and Defense blog post: Assessing the risk of the August security updates
It might help you to get an overview on the biggest release ever
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on August 7th, 2010% I just read this article E-crime unit arrests suspected phishing gang, which shows that we are making progress in fighting cybercrime. Very good news
Roger
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