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 ...
Cybersecurity–More than a good headline
A lot of governments all across the globe are working on starting, restarting or pushing their Cybersecurity initiative. What often concerns me is, that the last real headline has more impact on the strategy and the themes to be addressed than a structure or a plan or a strategy.
This made us thinking about what is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ...
By Roger Halbheer, on September 9th, 2011% We have seen some of the attacks recently, where people started to attack either the locks or the technology/software in the car itself controlling the chassis etc.
On DarkReading I was just reading this article: Car Systems Reminiscent of Early PCs
One of the things I do not get with cars is the way they . . . → Read More: Security of Car Software
By Roger Halbheer, on August 16th, 2011% A result of a study by Kasperski lab is fairly promising – even though it shows the problem being raising up the stack:
For the very first time in its history, the top 10 rating of vulnerabilities includes products from just two companies: Adobe and Oracle (Java), with seven of those 10 vulnerabilities being found . . . → Read More: Windows Security Praised
By Roger Halbheer, on July 15th, 2011% You heard about the launch of Office365 recently and I hope you read the blog post on the application of the Cloud Computing Security Considerations to the private. cloud. If not, here it is: Security Considerations in a Private Cloud
To complete the series now, we released an additional paper on how these considerations can . . . → Read More: Cloud Security in Office365
By Roger Halbheer, on June 24th, 2011% I am talking a lot about Cloud Security. There are a few observations I made:
Even though a lot of people are talking about the Cloud, there is still not too much knowledge about it. What is a private Cloud versus a public Cloud? What is Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Application . . . → Read More: Security Considerations in a Private Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on June 23rd, 2011% Back at the times of outsourcing, there was real tension between IT and the business. Internal IT had the “comfortable” position of having a monopoly: The business used the internal IT and basically just had to pay the bill. Then times came, where the business was not satisfied anymore. That basically started with the time . . . → Read More: Does the business really hate IT?
By Roger Halbheer, on June 16th, 2011% You might have known the 10 Immutable Laws Of Security since quite a while. It is kind of the “collected non-technical wisdom” of what we see in security respeonse being it in Microsoft Security Response Center or in our Security Product Support.
There is now a version 2, which is still as important as version . . . → Read More: Ten Immutable Laws Of Security (Version 2.0)
By Roger Halbheer, on June 15th, 2011% This is actually a great speech but very, very, very scary:
and the scariest part is that I never looked at it that way but he is right
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on June 8th, 2011% Quite a while ago, I blogged about the File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2:
File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure:More content
In my opinion, this is an interesting tool, built in to your server platform.
Now, we just published a paper about how we use this File Classification . . . → Read More: How Microsoft Uses File Classification Infrastructure
By Roger Halbheer, on May 13th, 2011% Yesterday we released our Security Intelligence Report v10. A few highlights/lowlights from the Key Findings section:
Industry vulnerability disclosure trends continue an overall trend of moderate declines since 2006. This trend is likely because of better development practices and quality control throughout the industry, which result in more secure software and fewer vulnerabilities. Vulnerability disclosures . . . → Read More: Security Intelligence Report v10 Released
By Roger Halbheer, on May 9th, 2011% A good paper: NSA – Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure
Roger
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