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 ...
Cybersecurity–More than a good headline
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 is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ...
By Roger Halbheer, on August 16th, 2011% A result of a study by Kasperski lab is fairly promising – even though it shows the problem being raising up the stack:
For the very first time in its history, the top 10 rating of vulnerabilities includes products from just two companies: Adobe and Oracle (Java), with seven of those 10 vulnerabilities being found . . . → Read More: Windows Security Praised
By Roger Halbheer, on June 15th, 2011% This is actually a great speech but very, very, very scary:
and the scariest part is that I never looked at it that way but he is right
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on March 31st, 2011% That’s really interesting:
Impressive! Kudos to MIT
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on March 2nd, 2011% I just read this article on Google pulling 50 applications from their Android marketplace (Google uses remote delete to remove Android apps from smartphones – Update). A very good decision as these apps leverage an exploit to access user data.
However, what made me think is that they removed the applications from the devices. This . . . → Read More: Is Remote-Application-Removal Acceptable?
By Roger Halbheer, on March 1st, 2011% Do you know the feeling? You should share a large file with somebody outside your organization. The file is too big to be sent by e-mail. What can you do? Well, you might have a service by internal IT (we have one) which is not really user-friendly, hard to use and – as you do . . . → Read More: Aligning Security with the Business
By Roger Halbheer, on October 29th, 2010% I already have a problem the way tourism develops on Mount Everest (definitely understanding that some people in the region can make money and a living of it) but now you can even get fast Internet on the base camp: Peak signal: 3G cell service comes to Mount Everest…
Is this the way to go?
. . . → Read More: Internet on Mount Everest
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 August 24th, 2010% I think I told the story thousands of time and everybody knows it but I will do it the 1001st time now . When I joined Microsoft and became what is the Chief Security Advisor for Switzerland today, we had an airlift for Windows Server 2003. The Product Manager in Switzerland asked me to keynote . . . → Read More: The Importance of Application Security
By Roger Halbheer, on August 17th, 2010% It is an interesting and difficult question. What can we do to really be able to stay on top? Or shall we give up? Well, clearly, I do not think so.
I read this article today, which really made me think: Black Hats are Winning, Symantec Says – wow! A fairly clear statement. We lost . . . → Read More: Are We Losing the Fight Against Cybercrime?
By Roger Halbheer, on April 21st, 2010% I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud, which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, an investigation of the attacks on the office of the Dalai Lama and some governmental bodies. The report is written by two bodies who had the privilege to investigate those . . . → Read More: A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?
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