Is a “Zero-Trust” Model the Silver Bullet?

I was reading an interesting article: Forrester Pushes ‘Zero Trust’ Model For Security, where they mainly claim that you should not trust your internal network – something I am asking for since a long time. However, the conclusions Forrester and me are drawing are slightly different. John Kindervag – the person quoted in the article . . . → Read More: Is a “Zero-Trust” Model the Silver Bullet?

Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats

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 vendors to help them to get signatures out to our joint customers the moment we . . . → Read More: Microsoft and Adobe: Collaboration Against Threats

How to Deal With Vulnerabilities

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

Open Source and Hackers

The debate is probably as old as the Open Source software development model: Which one is more secure: Open Source or shared source as we at Microsoft run it? I know that we could now enter a religious debate about that, which I do not want to as I do not really believe in the . . . → Read More: Open Source and Hackers

We Need Solid and Strong Transparent Processes for the Cloud

This morning I was reading an article called Google seeks to assure customers on cloud security practices on ComputerWeekly. I had to read this – obviously . It references a paper written by the Google Security Officer called Security Whitepaper: Google Apps Messaging and Collaboration Products. So, I read through it and to me it . . . → Read More: We Need Solid and Strong Transparent Processes for the Cloud

Customer Stories: Why it is not THAT easy to move to the Cloud

Ait ss you know from my postings on Cloud and security and the paper on the Cloud Security Considerations we wrote, I am convinced that there are five areas you should look at, when you try to migrate to the Cloud:

Compliance and Risk Management Identity and Access Management Service Integrity Endpoint Integrity Information Protection . . . → Read More: Customer Stories: Why it is not THAT easy to move to the Cloud

Want to introduce the Security Development Lifecycle? Play a Game

I was recently pinged by a customer asking for the “real” version of this game. It was distributed at RSA in the US and I do not have any anymore – but you can still print it yourself.

So, if you want to introduce SDL or if you introduced it already and want to . . . → Read More: Want to introduce the Security Development Lifecycle? Play a Game

Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud

To start with: I am an engineer not a lawyer – and this might be part of the problem…

When I started to think about the Cloud and security and thought about all the work I do with Law Enforcement and the challenges they face. Additionally, I started to think about the legal challenges we . . . → Read More: Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud

Security Development Lifecycle – Website!

I often talk about how we learned to engineer security into the products and the results prove that we are on the right track. One of the challenges we always have is how to help the ecosystem to improve as well. One of the ways is to communicate through our website. Not, that this is . . . → Read More: Security Development Lifecycle – Website!

Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 5 – I need tools!

Our EMEA Security Program Manager, Henk van Roest, started this series internally and with his consent I am publishing it here in my blog as I think it contains a lot of great information for you to use.

So far, in the first 4 chapters, we have addressed the usual excuses for not Managing Your . . . → Read More: Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 5 – I need tools!

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