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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 ... 
Stuxnet is a severe threat – that’s something we know for sure. But if we look at it – what do we really know? What can we learn? Let’s start from the beginning. As soon as Stuxnet hit the news, it was interesting to see, what was happening. There was a ton of speculation out . . . → Read More: Stuxnet talks – do we listen? I read an article called that way but then had to realize that it did not really address, what I expected. Why? Well, because it does not cover the key challenge in my opinion but… . . . → Read More: How to Detect a Hacker Attack This is one of the risks, not a lot of people look into: It is fairly easy for me to setup a Facebook account in another person’s name. This is what happened to Ronald K. Noble, head of Interpol: Interpol Chief Ronald K. Noble Has Facebook Identity Stolen. Roger We are basically asking the industry to follow a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure and are therefore not in favor of public vulnerability disclosure as it puts the industry unnecessarily at risk. Recently there was a vulnerability in ASP.NET publically disclosed. We released an advisory and you should look into implementing the suggested workaround: Vulnerability in ASP.NET . . . → Read More: Advisory for the ASP.NET Vulnerability As soon as zero-days appear on the Internet, two things happen: Somebody publishes an exploit and somebody else an unoffical patch. How trustworthy are such updates? How should you handle them? It is all about risk management! . . . → Read More: The Risks of Unofficial Patches If you have not seen it, you should probably have a brief look at it. We are seeing a new worm spreading on Exchange. This worm is not exploiting a vulnerability but uses social engineering to spread. Please read our MMPC blog at Emerging Malware Issue: Visal.B or look it up in our malware encyclopedia . . . → Read More: Emerging Malware Threat on Exchange 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 that and I do not want to debate them here and now. What I just . . . → Read More: How to Deal With Vulnerabilities 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 going on. There is a good blog post by our malware protection center: Attacks on . . . → Read More: Attacks on the Windows Help and Support Center Vulnerability (CVE-2010-1885) You might have read that I ranted a little bit about the iPad data breach: Who needs a (vulnerable) iPad if you can get an nPad? and some people pushed back – which I can understand. So, to put it into perspective, I read this article this morning on the worst data breaches of the . . . → Read More: 10 of the Top Data Breaches of the Decade As you know (I stress that fairly often ), I am Swiss. The reason why I am stressing this today is that I want to give you an example on security from the Swiss market: The banks here on place compete with each other – obviously. However, I have never seen the banks competing on . . . → Read More: Vulnerability Disclosure to Compete? |
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