Consumerization of IT–How to address this
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 they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ...
10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before 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 XP
I 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 Security
A 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 ...
By Roger Halbheer, on March 9th, 2010% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on January 29th, 2010% As you might know, it was time for the Data Protection Day in Europe again. Unfortunately I did not find the videos from this year’s competition yet but I guess we will find them later on the page and on YouTube.
However, we released a study on Privacy which is pretty interesting. Find the summary . . . → Read More: Data Protection Day: An Interesting Study
By Roger Halbheer, on January 12th, 2010% A few days ago, I blogged on Tired of Web 2.0? Kill your Online Identities – an automated way to “disappear” from Web 2.0 (actually Facebook has banned the tool since…).
Today, I was reading an article called Un-Google Yourself. Trust me, I am not explicitly looking for such approaches but seem to find them . . . → Read More: Un-Google Yourself: Remove your Web Content
By Roger Halbheer, on September 17th, 2009% I just found that this morning. If you have 15 minutes, you have to watch these videos. They are really fun (are they?):
Enjoy! I did (partly)
Roger
. . . → Read More: When Goog becomes your Roommate (a "must see")
By Roger Halbheer, on August 14th, 2009% Not really serious – just fun (or isn’t it??):
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on January 28th, 2009% In early December I blogged about the Privacy Video Competition of the Data Protection Day.
Today is the day: The winners just were announced. If you want to look at the videos (they are actually pretty cool):
Watch all entries: http://eskills.eun.org/web/dprotection/gallery Watch all shortlisted entries: Watch the winning entries: Little Betsy – Bulgaria ID . . . → Read More: Data Protection Day 2009
By Roger Halbheer, on December 11th, 2008% On January 28th the European Union is holding the Data Protection Day. To prepare for that, they are holding a competition for young people from 15 to 19 to express their views about online privacy. Here is the teaser:
Surf the net – Think privacy!
So, please spread the word!
Roger
. . . → Read More: Privacy Video Competition
By Roger Halbheer, on December 9th, 2008% I wanted to make you aware of a very important announcement we made earlier today. As you know, Trustworthy Computing is all about Security, Reliability and Business Practices. Our house has a fourth pillar – Privacy – which we view as extremely important, not only in terms of the way we manage our customers’ data, . . . → Read More: Important Privacy Announcement
By Roger Halbheer, on August 20th, 2008% As you all know, most jurisdictions allow individuals to ask for data collected by an organization (being it a company or a governmental organization). A lot of countries have Data Protection Commissioners that look into what companies and more often governments do with regards to PII (Personal Identifiable Information). After 9/11 the United States forced . . . → Read More: How to circumvent Privacy Laws
By Roger Halbheer, on August 5th, 2008% It is not really news anymore as it broke during my vacation. However, it is important from my point of view:
We are a proud sponsor (and not for the first time) of the Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards, which recognizes the work of researchers in the area of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. There was a . . . → Read More: Microsoft sponsors Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards
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