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 January 16th, 2011% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on January 12th, 2011% 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?
By Roger Halbheer, on January 3rd, 2011% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on November 30th, 2010% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on November 11th, 2010% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on November 5th, 2010% You know that I am propagating the adoption of cybercrime legislation, which is aligned across the Globe. Something, which is absolutely necessary if we want to fight Cybercrime. Basically we are asking governments to consider the Cybercrime Convention (aslo known as Budapest Convention) by the Council of Europe.
Now it seems, that Russia is considering . . . → Read More: Russia to revise Cybercrime Legislation?
By Roger Halbheer, on October 22nd, 2010% An interesting analysis by the Malware Protection Center: The Botnet Superhighway
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on October 12th, 2010% Stuxnet is a severe threat – that’s something we know for sure. But if we look at it – what do we really know? What can we learn?
Let’s start from the beginning. As soon as Stuxnet hit the news, it was interesting to see, what was happening. There was a ton of speculation out . . . → Read More: Stuxnet talks – do we listen?
By Roger Halbheer, on October 5th, 2010% No, this is not yet another announcement – this is a picture of today’s reality. UNHCR just published a website called Protecting and Empowering Refugees, where the results of the partnership between the UNHCR and Microsoft is shown in a pretty impressive way. . . . → Read More: UNHCR and Microsoft to help refugees
By Roger Halbheer, on October 4th, 2010% Sometimes I feel that people think the Internet is a room, where the laws of our society do not apply anymore… I read an article this morning on Swiss news called Drei Monate Haft für Beleidigungen auf Facebook – and here is an English version of it: Jail for French Facebook user.
Sometimes I . . . → Read More: “Freedom of speech” does not mean you can say everything!
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