Category Archives: Strategy

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 … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security Compliance Manager: Now available!

I recently blogged about the Beta version of our Security Compliance Manger, helping you to manage the security baselines in your organization. There are some screenshots in the corresponding post: Making the Management of Security Compliance Easier! Now, we released … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Results of Operation b49 (Botnet Takedown)

On February 24th we announced the work we did on taking down Waledac – read Tim Cranton’s blog post called Cracking Down on Botnets. Now it is time to look back and try to understand what we learned so far. … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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Use Music to Fight Cybercrime: ‘Maga No Need Pay’

When I travel through Africa, the high piracy rate is often something we address. Not necessarily from a commercial perspective but much more from a security angle. We know that pirated software is often infected with malware and therefore used … Continue reading

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HP and Microsoft Partnership: That’s What You Need in the Cloud

Often when I talk to our customers and they ask me about the cloud, a lot of questions come up. Most of them are security related (obviously) but some of them are more management focused. For example the question about … Continue reading

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The New Bing Maps – Freaking Cool!!!

It has nothing to do with security – I know but it is very, very, very cool!!!! We just released the new Bing Maps explorer! The first thing you will see is that we integrated Photosynth and Silverlight. So, no … Continue reading

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Talking about Transparency – Windows Azure Dashboard

This is a nice feature – on this page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/support/status/servicedashboard.aspx we show the current state of our Azure services. This is the kind of transparency (on the operations’ side) we need. There is much more needed with regards to process … Continue reading

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