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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 ... 
Last October I blogged about EMET–Protection Against Zero-Days – a really great tool to protect your environment. We just released a new version, which can be downloaded here: Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit v3.0. Before you test it, make sure you have your Bitlocker recovery key ready (or – before the next reboot, suspend Bitlocker . . . → Read More: New EMET Version 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 A few days ago, Windows Defender Offline was released. This is basically the tool to use, if you are unable to remove malware from a running PC. To quote the website: Sometimes, malicious and other potentially unwanted software, including rootkits, try to install themselves on your PC. This can happen when you connect to the . . . → Read More: Windows Defender Offline 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 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 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 One of the challenges customers always have is, how to select the right cloud partner and fairly often security drives this selection. The Cloud Security Alliance published the Cloud Controls Matrix quite a while ago and in addition a Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire and a lot of request for information/proposal are based on this material. . . . → Read More: Selecting the right Cloud partner CORRECTION:So far there is “only” Proof of Concept code in the wild, no real exploit. In our last update cycle we published the security bulletin MS12-020 Vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Could Allow Remote Code Execution. Relatively soon after the release, there was a public exploit code available – we informed here: Proof-of-Concept Code available for . . . → Read More: Security Updates and Exploit Code Sorry, I did not blog for quite a while. When looking at the Cloud, one of the key challenges to address – in my opinion – is how to manage the identity of the different users. If you have to add an additional identity to all the logons you already have, the Cloud will . . . → Read More: Office 365 Single Sign-On with AD FS 2.0 whitepaper I mean, I obviously like this article: Internet Explorer aces security test as Google faces accusations as it has a nice quote to start with: Internet Explorer 9 should be the go-to browser for organizations concerned about protecting machines from malicious downloads, according to a new study from NSS Labs: Microsoft’s browser trounced rivals Chrome, . . . → Read More: Internet Explorer aces security test as Google faces accusations |
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