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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 ... 
l am still sitting in the parliament room of the Council of Europe at the celebration event for the Budapest Convention. It was another very good event advancing the challenges fighting Cybercrime. Let me try to summarize a few thoughts: The Budapest Convention is probably the best convention out there allowing a wide adoption of . . . → Read More: Council of Europe Octopus Conference- Some Thoughts 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 . . . → Read More: Cybersecurity–More than a good headline It is not that rare for Law Enforcement that they use software to spy in the case of severe accusations like terrorism. What is kind of surprising is the level of sophistication some of these Trojans seem to have – and not necessarily to the good side. The German Chaos Computer Club analyzed the Trojan . . . → Read More: German’s Government-Created Trojan Vulnerable This paper by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) was just brought to my attention. A piece of work, which is definitely worth working through. It lays out the problem space and then does a deep dive into the different sections: Governments Legislative Bodies The Armed Forces Law Enforcement Judges . . . → Read More: Cyber Security: The Road Ahead It is a repeating pattern but not the less disgusting. Whenever bad things happens on the globe, the criminals are not far. This happened during hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Indonesia, the earthquake in Haiti and now, not surprisingly in Libya as you can read in this blog post by Sophos: Violence in Libya exploited . . . → Read More: Libya Violence Exploited by Scammers I often read two kinds of articles when it comes to ISPs and protecting privacy. In side asks for as much privacy as possible, the other one for transparency to fight cybercrime. What is our real goal? What is the role of ISPs in fighting crime? An interesting study by the OECD in comparison with an article I read today. . . . → Read More: Fighting Crime and Protecting Privacy–a Contradiction? 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 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 |
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