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 ...
Am I Too Paranoid? 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 mood 
“Sure, shoot” |
| Caller: |
“What is your health insurer?” |
| Me: |
Gave her the name |
| Caller: |
“In which year were you born?” |
| Me: |
“What exactly do you need this data for?” |
| Caller: |
Slightly upset
”As I said: for Health Insurance statistics!” |
| Me: |
“And what company are your working for?” |
| Caller: |
Hang up |
She did not even say goodbye 
Am I too paranoid with such things? This is my data and I was fairly surprised that she was unable (or unwilling) to answer the questions
Roger
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