Will the user define security policies in the future?
I think, I blogged about this event already earlier: Years ago I was meeting a customer and was talking about the future of IT. I was telling the audience (about 10 people including the Security Officer) that there is a good chance that IT will not define a set of hardware anymore but that the user will buy their own and use it for business. Additionally, different people have different ...
Get off XP or Risk your Business?
One of the highest hit rates I ever had on my blog was one I wrote right before Conficker broke out. I called it Playing Russian Roulette with your Network. The background was, that we released an out of band security update and our customers came back and asked us, whether they really shall deploy it – this situation then led to Conficker.
About 12 months from today, Windows XP will ...
Security in 2013 – the way forward?
Typically January is the month where we are asked to make predictions on the trends for the New Year. I do not like this as I am an engineer and not a fortune tellerJ. But there are things we know and things we definitely need to drive this year. I would actually put it into the context of typical hygiene of any IT environment.
Let's try to understand, where we stand ...
The Directory in the Cloud?
It seems that it is an eternity ago – and it is. Pretty much three years ago, Doug Cavit and me published a paper called the Cloud Computing Security Considerations. Even though it is three years, the paper is still worth reading as the content still applies. What we basically said was, that if you look at the Cloud, there are five areas of Considerations:
Compliance and Risk Management: Organizations shifting ...
Worldwide Chief Security Advisor Meeting By Roger Halbheer, on November 1st, 2010 I know that I have been very, very quiet over the last two weeks. The reason was, that the worldwide Chief Security Advisors met at our HQ in Redmond for four days to discuss community related questions as well as the future of certain selected products and share the worldwide experience with our product manager.
It is really a pure joy to see this community and the sheer power of these security professionals in one room. We had long and intense discussions with our product teams, which helped us on both sides to move forward, to learn and to grow.
It is a real privilege to be able to run this community on a world-wide basis as it is definitely able to make a difference
Roger
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