Category Archives: Microsoft

Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats

Posted on 28/07/2010 by Roger

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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How to Deal With Vulnerabilities

Posted on 27/07/2010 by Roger

This is always a fairly emotional theme. What is better to protect the ecosystem? Public or private disclosure? Should somebody paying for vulnerabilities or not? Is a vulnerability auction ethical or not? I know that there are numerous views on … Continue reading →

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Chief Security Advisor in Sweden: Magnus is back

Posted on 27/07/2010 by Roger

After my overall announcement that we grow the community in Off to See the World, and Stuart Aston joining as the CSA in the UK, it is a great pleasure to see Magnus Lindkvist coming back. Magnus was the CSA … Continue reading →

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A new Chief Security Advisor in the UK

Posted on 22/07/2010 by Roger

As you have seen in my post Off to see the World, we are hiring Chief Security Advisors all over the place. The first one was announced last week: Stuart Aston was announced to take over the Chief Security Advisor … Continue reading →

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Support for Windows XP SP2 ends today!

Posted on 13/07/2010 by Roger

I just wanted to remind you: The support for Windows XP SP2 ends today. I hope that this does not catch you by surprise. If you need all the information about which kind of support ends when for which product, … Continue reading →

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Off to See the World

Posted on 09/07/2010 by Roger

If you follow my blog you saw recently that there are two themes constantly popping up: One is everything about a government’s Cybersecurity Agenda (or the lack thereof) and the second one is the Cloud. Let me briefly line them … Continue reading →

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Make Your Influence Positive–Great TV Commercial

Posted on 07/07/2010 by Roger

It really made me think… Roger

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Cloud Computing: Benefits and Risks of Moving Federal IT into the Cloud

Posted on 06/07/2010 by Roger

July 1st, Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing was testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Basically the hearing was on the benefits and risk of Cloud adoption for the US government. If … Continue reading →

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Microsoft By Numbers

Posted on 04/07/2010 by Roger

If you have not seen these numbers, they are very impressive: Microsoft by the numbers. One of the most impressive figure in there is that we sold 150,000,000 Windows 7 licenses since the launch. Well, this figure by itself does … Continue reading →

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Attacks on the Windows Help and Support Center Vulnerability (CVE-2010-1885)

Posted on 02/07/2010 by Roger

I blogged about the vulnerability which was publically disclosed by a researcher working for Google earlier this month. In the meantime the attacks started to increase. I think that it would be important for you to look at what is … Continue reading →

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