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Consumerization of IT–How to address thisBring 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 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 ... 
We have seen some of the attacks recently, where people started to attack either the locks or the technology/software in the car itself controlling the chassis etc. On DarkReading I was just reading this article: Car Systems Reminiscent of Early PCs One of the things I do not get with cars is the way they . . . → Read More: Security of Car Software An interesting one: Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile Roger 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 We often talk about consumerization of IT. The advantages are huge – and so are the risks. The key challenge is, that we increasingly started to rely on devices built for consumers to safeguard our company’s – or even worse our country’s – secrets. Consumerization is huge and makes a lot of sense from a . . . → Read More: The Risks of Consumerization of IT Actually, there is not much to say about this. It is a blog post by CanegieMellon called A Security Comparison: Microsoft Office vs. Oracle Openoffice and just does what it says. However, I do not particularly like the security comparison of products built solely on vulnerabilities as this shows only one side of the equation . . . → Read More: A Security Comparison: Microsoft Office vs. Oracle Openoffice This paper by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) was just brought to my attention. A piece of work, which is definitely worth working through. It lays out the problem space and then does a deep dive into the different sections: Governments Legislative Bodies The Armed Forces Law Enforcement Judges . . . → Read More: Cyber Security: The Road Ahead An interesting article by ISACA: Six predictions for CIOs. Here they are: Prediction 1: Cloud computing is here to stay and will become business as usual. Prediction 2: Virtualization will be a catalyst that drives IT modernization. Prediction 3: IT operations become service-centric and business value-focused, rather than process-driven and reactive. Prediction 4: Risk management . . . → Read More: Six predictions for CIOs That’s really interesting: Impressive! Kudos to MIT Roger 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? 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 |
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