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 November 21st, 2011% lt is time again! The Council of Europe Octopus Conference on Cooperation against Cybercrime is taking place this week. This year it is even the 10th anniversary of the Budapest Convention. Therefore a broad country of legal, law enforcement and private sector organizations are discussing the current state and the future of the collaboration to . . . → Read More: Cooperation against Cybercrime- Octopus Conference
By Roger Halbheer, on February 12th, 2011% It is kind of a tradition that Scott Charney, our Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, is speaking at RSA. If you look back, he always showed the evolution of Trustworthy Computing and spoke about e.g. End to End Trust and other concepts we use to envision the future of the security ecosystem.
This . . . → Read More: Scott Charney at RSA this year
By Roger Halbheer, on November 5th, 2010% I will be at the ISF Congress in Monte Carlo from tomorrow on. If you are there as well and want to meet, drop me a mail
It is actually the first event since a long time I am just going to participate, not to hold any speeches
Roger
. . . → Read More: ISF Congress in Monte Carlo–let’s meet
By Roger Halbheer, on September 20th, 2010% The cloud – and now I mean the volcano cloud – showed that there is not always a real need to travel far in to get the right information at an event of conference. I delivered a keynote via LiveMeeting (Virtual Keynotes – Do we always have to travel?) during the time the planes were . . . → Read More: Infosecurity Virtual Conference
By Roger Halbheer, on September 16th, 2010% I am just preparing my trip to South Africa next week. Our Chief Security Advisor in South Africa, Khomotso Kganyago does an outstanding job keeping my busy. He put together a great agenda – I just hope I can cope with everything he is expecting from me.
Part of it is a public lecture at . . . → Read More: Using Facebook to Promote an Event – Lecture in Johannesburg Next Week
By Roger Halbheer, on March 23rd, 2010% A few years ago, the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime was signed within the Council of Europe. Since then it was ratified all across the globe by a lot of countries or at least used as the base for legislation. Since a few years as well, the Council of Europe is organizing a conference on Cooperation . . . → Read More: Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 1
By Roger Halbheer, on January 29th, 2010% As you might know, it was time for the Data Protection Day in Europe again. Unfortunately I did not find the videos from this year’s competition yet but I guess we will find them later on the page and on YouTube.
However, we released a study on Privacy which is pretty interesting. Find the summary . . . → Read More: Data Protection Day: An Interesting Study
By Roger Halbheer, on December 17th, 2009% When I tweeted last week that I am on my way to Algeria, I got quite some reactions and questions that I shall report how it was. So, let me try to briefly summarize my impressions.
I was invited to speak at a conference on certification in Algiers. Well, initially I pushed back as I . . . → Read More: Algeria: Conference on Certification (eID)
By Roger Halbheer, on December 4th, 2009% You know, there are people who blog late, there are people who blog very late and then there is me…
I actually missed that one even though I was triggered: Mid November there was the Get Safe Online Week 2009 in the UK. Usually they do really good stuff and this is the reason I . . . → Read More: Get Safe Online: Don't be a Money Mule
By Roger Halbheer, on October 18th, 2009% Our EMEA Security Program Manager, Henk van Roest, started this series internally and with his consent I am publishing it here in my blog as I think it contains a lot of great information for you to use.
Security — you hear about it every day. Being responsible for information security can be a daunting . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 3 – But how do I?
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