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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 ... 
I just read this blog post by ESET laboratories: Inside a phishing attack: 35 credit cards in 5 hours. They analyzed a very poorly designed phishing attack and found that: The first access to the site was on January 20 at 10:01 pm (as seen in picture). The latest registered access was on the same . . . → Read More: Phishing still very effective: 35 cards in 5 hours I blogged about my attendence at the above mentioned UNODC meeting. This is a short summary on how I preceived the meeting. . . . → Read More: Conclusion on UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime As attacks are moving up the stack, PDF becomes the number 1 exploited file type. Make sure you patch all your applications . . . → Read More: Attacks on Application Level From tomorrow on, UNDOC invited for an Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime in Vienna. I am really interested in seeing hoe these discussions will go. If – by any chance – you are there as well, please ping me and we will have a chat. Otherwise, I will see what I can blog about. . . . → Read More: UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime It is not really surprising that the criminals will leverage the economy of Cloud Computing for their illegal purposes. Especially activities, which consume a lot of processor power will be moved to the Cloud – like any other business. Some way back, there were discussions on how to leverage GPUs to crack passwords: Graphics Cards . . . → Read More: Cybercrime as a Service–Our Future? Since quite a while, I am saying that targeted attacks are the risks, which really keep me up at night. BBC just posted a similar article: Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears I think that this is a real issue and very hard to fight! Roger With a lot of interest I followed the media on the latest Wikileaks’ publication of sensitive documents from the US Government. At least here in Europe, there is a huge debate whether this publication is really problematic for the United States. A discussion I do not want to comment here, as I am not able . . . → Read More: Publishing Secret or Sensitive Information It is kind of strange, whenever I talk to governments and customers, everybody seems to agree that basic malware protection should be for free or even integrated into the OS. I am talking about malware, which is “installed” by the user as well… However, it seems that not everybody is happy… Security firms blast Microsoft . . . → Read More: Basic Malware Protection for Free? We are huge supporter of the Convention on Cybercrime by the Council of Europe. The reason for this is that we are convinced that there is a need of a certain level of harmonization across the Globe regarding cybercrime laws. Today I learned, that Turkey signed the convention yesterday. This is a great achievement and . . . → Read More: Turkey signed Cybercrime Convention An interesting analysis by the Malware Protection Center: The Botnet Superhighway Roger |
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