NSA – Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure

A good paper: NSA – Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure

Roger

Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?

To me, one of the benefits of moving to the Cloud is security – obviously besides availability and costs.

Recent incidents made me doubt:

Amazon not only having significant downtime but in the same time losing customer data. Sony’s game network being significantly compromised.

This is definitely not to blame them but I was heavily . . . → Read More: Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?

Rediscover Microsoft Security Guides

Fairly often I am asked whether the Security Guides for our products still exist. The good news is: They do. The bad news is: They are called differently

The previously stand-alone Microsoft product-specific security guides are now included within the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool, which I blogged about several times already (e.g. . . . → Read More: Rediscover Microsoft Security Guides

Chris de Burgh: People of the World Stand Up for Freedom

This is one of the rare more private posts on this blog and this time has nothing to do with security at all.

Since ages one singer was always part of my wife’s and my live: Chris de Burgh. And even if it is uncool in our kid’s world, they love him and his songs . . . → Read More: Chris de Burgh: People of the World Stand Up for Freedom

Mutual Authentication in Real Life–Launching a Nuclear Missile…

A few years ago, I wanted to run an exercise with our incident response team in Switzerland. A customer, the government and me came together to develop the goals and the scenario. One of the key question we tried to answer together with the university, which we wanted to use as observers was, whether we . . . → Read More: Mutual Authentication in Real Life–Launching a Nuclear Missile…

Microsoft Security Update Guide, Second Edition

A while ago we released the Microsoft Security Update Guide to explain how we release security updates and how you should/could work with our updates. It encompasses these themes:

Get to know the security update release process Learn how to evaluate risk See how to mitigate security risks Understand how quickly you need to apply . . . → Read More: Microsoft Security Update Guide, Second Edition

Is Remote-Application-Removal Acceptable?

I just read this article on Google pulling 50 applications from their Android marketplace (Google uses remote delete to remove Android apps from smartphones – Update). A very good decision as these apps leverage an exploit to access user data.

However, what made me think is that they removed the applications from the devices. This . . . → Read More: Is Remote-Application-Removal Acceptable?

Aligning Security with the Business

Do you know the feeling? You should share a large file with somebody outside your organization. The file is too big to be sent by e-mail. What can you do? Well, you might have a service by internal IT (we have one) which is not really user-friendly, hard to use and – as you do . . . → Read More: Aligning Security with the Business

The New World of Work

The world got small, didn’t it? This afternoon I decided to leave home early and go to the mountains. However, I had some conference calls tonight, where we usually use Lync (successor of Communicator). So, as I do not have a fixed line there, I dialed in with my 3G card, which gave me . . . → Read More: The New World of Work

Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks?

There are some high-level indsutry trends, which tend to be ignored by security officers. The CIO Central published an article, which I would even go further looking at the trends raised. . . . → Read More: Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks?

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