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 May 9th, 2012% I guess, I do not have to comment this – right?
What Microsoft can teach Apple about security response
To quote the summary:
Microsoft just released seven security updates to fix 23 vulnerabilities in Windows and other products. In February, Apple released a massive update that covered 51 vulnerabilities and also introduced an embarrassing . . . → Read More: What Microsoft can teach Apple about security response
By Roger Halbheer, on April 26th, 2012% 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 . . . → Read More: Consumerization of IT–How to address this
By Roger Halbheer, on April 23rd, 2012% I am following Shoaib’s blog since quite a while – actually due to the beauty of the Internet, we only met virtually so far .
He just posted on his blog: 5 Common Types of Security Professionals
I really like this post. The way he categorizes them is:
The NO-MASTER The By-The-Book Preacher The . . . → Read More: 5 Common Types of Security Professionals
By Roger Halbheer, on April 20th, 2012% This was an interesting article on cio.com: Apple, Oracle, Google Lead Major Vendors with Software Vulnerabilities in Q1, Security Report Says – by TrendMicro. Now, these stats are always a bit a challenge: They make a really good headline but if the statistics does not include the severity of the vulnerabilities, it is hard to . . . → Read More: Q1 Software Vulnerabilities
By Roger Halbheer, on April 13th, 2012% I know that I keep going and going on that. When I talk to customers and mainly to providers of the critical infrastructure about security, one of the key things to me is to keep the software updated. It is about patching and it is about staying on the latest version of your software. To . . . → Read More: Keep all your software updated and current
By Roger Halbheer, on April 6th, 2012% Years ago information security or cybersecurity was in the hands of specialists, which set the rules and the users had to follow – in theory. Whether the users really followed the rules, policies and recommendations is a different story but it worked that way. I rarely remember a CIO/CFO or CEO really being interested in . . . → Read More: Cybersecurity–Do we need to change the approach?
By Roger Halbheer, on January 12th, 2012%
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 . . . → Read More: 10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
By Roger Halbheer, on November 10th, 2011% A few years back a customer’s CSO left the room when I said that this customer should start thinking about a scenario, where selected users bring their own devices – he called me “nuts”. Well, I think the smartphone area proofed me right. Basically the smartphones were the first Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as . . . → Read More: How to manage “Bring your own device”
By Roger Halbheer, on October 3rd, 2011% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on September 15th, 2011% Over the course of the last few years we have seen some countries having constantly low infection rates. So, our team in Trustworthy Computing started to ask the question why this is the case. The countries are Austria, Finland, Germany and Japan. I think it is worth y look at them:
Part 1: Introduction to . . . → Read More: Lessons from Some of the Least Malware Infected Countries in the World
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