Category Archives: Trends

Do We Really Want Privacy?

I really love reading Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog. Fairly often it is thought provoking… He recently wrote about his experience with the new iPhone privacy policy: Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location. He was one (probably of the … Continue reading

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The Importance of Application Security

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 … Continue reading

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The Risk of Blogging

Steve Ballmer was once asked by a journalist whether and why he allows blogging by Microsoft employees, without any approval process. His answer was that he lets Microsoft employees talk to customers without approval process as well (at least that’s … Continue reading

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Are We Losing the Fight Against Cybercrime?

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 … Continue reading

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Blocking Social Media Sites–a False Sense of Security?

I blogged often about it: Blocking certain websites today can fire back in different ways. The CIO published an article called Workarounds: 5 Ways Employees Try to Access Restricted Sites – and they say: “Some workarounds can be dangerous because … Continue reading

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Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats

You know my opinion on collaboration between countries, on public-private-partnerships as well as on collaboration between companies. Since quite a while we run a program called MAPP – the Microsoft Active Protections Program, where we share vulnerability information with security … Continue reading

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Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today

And everybody tells me how secure they are….. So,according to this article Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today, apple hast most vulns, then Oracle and then us (and then the rest). And you know, the … Continue reading

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Doing the right thing on ID management isn’t enough…

Even though it might be obvious, compliance is not only about protecting data but identities as well – and more. Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics, whom I value high, wrote a good article: Doing the right thing on ID management isn’t … Continue reading

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US Cybersecurity Research!

The Department of Homeland Security published a report on A Roadmap for Cybersecurity Research, I was definitely impressed! All the themes, which are important to me are in their list : Scalable trustworthy systems (including system architectures and requisite development … Continue reading

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The Growth of the Tablet Market

You know that we have Tablet PCs since Windows XP and I think I did not have many PCs at Microsoft which were not tablets. How often do I use them as a tablet? Not too often but when I … Continue reading

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