Category Archives: Strategy

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

Posted on 14/01/2010 by Roger

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!!!

Posted on 02/12/2009 by Roger

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

Posted on 20/11/2009 by Roger

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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Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 4 – I want to learn!

Posted on 13/11/2009 by Roger

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. Use these … Continue reading →

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Power of Knowledge: Security Intelligence Report v7

Posted on 02/11/2009 by Roger

It is a good tradition since quite a while that we make the intelligence we have available accessible to the broad public. This will help out customers to protect themselves much better. The Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is built on … Continue reading →

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Look at the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit

Posted on 29/10/2009 by Roger

Recently we announced the availability of the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit. This is a toolkit which makes it easier to defend your application on different levels – free of charge. Read the post done by our Security Research and Defense … Continue reading →

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Could Microsoft solve the scareware problem?

Posted on 22/10/2009 by Roger

This morning I read the following article: Microsoft can help kill fake antivirus threat. And interesting approach. The proposal is that we could white-list all the legitimate security software within the OS in order to make it harder to trick … Continue reading →

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Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 3 – But how do I?

Posted on 18/10/2009 by Roger

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. Security — … Continue reading →

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COFEE now distributed via a NW3C as well

Posted on 16/10/2009 by Roger

COFEE is a tool available to Law Enforcement only to capture online evidence with a little training as possible. The idea behind the tool is, that there is little need for high-trained staff to be available during e.g. house searches … Continue reading →

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Typing Arabic without a Arabic Keyboard: Microsoft Maren

Posted on 09/09/2009 by Roger

I am using a Latin keyboard and my Arabic is kind of “rusty” but I guess that this could be of real help if you write Arabic: Microsoft Maren There is a good video on that page. Roger

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