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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 ... 
Cybersecurity–More than a good headlineA 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 is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ... 
Interesting: Microsoft takes the Android profit, the Wonkas take the pain I quote: Yet Android costs Google billions, without drawing revenue. Microsoft is making half a billion a year from Android. The settlement with Oracle, when it eventually comes, will add even more costs to working with Android – for anyone who dabbled with it. . . . → Read More: Why Patents are not here to be violated: Google’s challenges with Android Obviously I do not like people to steal software. Additionally, from at least two perspectives it adds security risks: People are less likely to patch and pirated software often comes wit pre-installed malware, which is then hard to detect. There is just such a case now with the iPhone: Fake iPhone jail-breaking tool packed with . . . → Read More: The Risks of Pirated Software Sometimes I wonder whether I am too paranoid. I just got a call, which went like that: Caller: “Hello, we are doing a health insurance survey and have just three questions for you, would you mind to join in? Just 20 seconds. We do it for Health Insurance statistics.” Me: Was in a very good . . . → Read More: Am I Too Paranoid? There seem to be policy organizations being serious about fighting piracy! Hungary, actually with 41% pirated software “not even that bad”, seems to be really serious. But before, let me just take those 41% up for a second: This means that 41% of the work you do is stolen. I think a significant negative impact . . . → Read More: Raid against Piracy If would like to start with an important statement: This is the first blog post I made with a disclaimer to start with. The content of this post is not an official Microsoft position and might not reflect the Microsoft opinion! Let’s have a chat about piracy. When I look at my neighborhood, I often . . . → Read More: Piracy and Legal Consequences Beginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the conclusion, that there most probably is: Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching? Now, the Business . . . → Read More: Software Piracy – A Threat to Security! I basically like the blogosphere. It is a way to express an opinion without having to worry (too much) about censorship. The disadvantage is that there are people who present things as “facts”, which are simply wrong. This happened Thursday on ZDNet. I stumbled across an article called It’s time for Microsoft to supply ALL . . . → Read More: Security Updates on Automatic Update Well, it is not really a follow up of my last post but goes into the same direction: A few years ago (I was still working in Switzerland) we ran an event where consumer could bring us their PC and we checked it for viruses and cleaned it where necessary. When we found a heavily . . . → Read More: Piracy and Security (part 1.5) Remark: A few weeks ago I made a post where I asked you about the correlation between Piracy and Security. I was talking about Piracy (stolen software) and got a lot of answers about Privacy (Data Protection) . So the following post is about stolen and illegal software… I was recently asked in a panel . . . → Read More: Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching? I am working on a blog post on Security and Piracy looking into the data I have available. Probably it will be ready next week but what I wanted to know: Is there anybody who did some research about this already? I would appreciate if you could let me know. I will definitely share my . . . → Read More: Security and Piracy – a Correlation? |
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