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Mature your IT and then move to the Cloud
Today, I had the opportunity to talk to a group of partners on Cloud and security. The goal was to make them ready for the Cloud and make them ready to answer the customer’s questions. One block – obviously – … Continue reading
How to Align Work Live and Private Live
It is often talked about the “New World of Work” or sometimes it is about bringing virtual and physical organizations together – which is often called the Hybrid organization. The Hybrid organization has different aspects: People, Technology and Buildings. We … Continue reading
Posted in People, Policy, Process, Security, Trends
Tagged Organizations, People, Processes
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A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?
I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud, which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, an investigation of the attacks on the office of the Dalai Lama and some governmental … Continue reading
Posted in Associations, Crime, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cybercrime, Government, Incidents, Industry, Law Enforcement, Legislation, People, Policy, Process, Security, Technology, Terrorism, Trends
Tagged Cloud, Collaboration, Crime, Cybercrime, Government, Hacking, Incident Sharing, International, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Policies
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Raise Money for Cancer Research
This is a private post – and does not really have a lot to do with my job at Microsoft. Well, a little… A friend of mine – actually the EMEA Security PR guy at Microsoft – is an addicted … Continue reading
Why Today’s End-User Education Fails!
I was reading a paper recently, where I initially thought it is a joke (it looked scientifically, therefore I was not too scared). But as our research department did it, it is serious and really, really good – at least … Continue reading
Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 2
And the second day starts. I just met with Jeremy Kirk from IDG and it is great to see that the press is actually interested in such a conference as well. The day today started with a long session on … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation, People, Policy, Process, Security
Tagged Cloud, Crime, Critical Infrastructure, Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation
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Children – A Threat For Corporate Security?
I read this article this morning: Safer Internet Day: How children can undermine corporate security and it actually reminds me of all the PCs I looked at in my private environment. When I see a heavily infected PC, the parents … Continue reading
Posted in Incidents, People, Trends
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Microsoft Security Essentials – Coming even closer to you
Today we were adding 17 additional markets to our Microsoft Security Essentials offering. I am really excited about that as all these markets are in EMEA: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi … Continue reading
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Security and Usability
It is not a new concept: The secure way is only secure if it is the easiest way. I have seen a lot of solutions which are extremely secure – in the eyes of the security people. However, the users … Continue reading
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Bing and the Video Preview (and Family Safety Settings)
You might have seen recent posts on Bing getting under attack because of the video preview feature, which works (obviously) for “normal” videos as well as for porn… To be clear upfront: I am the daddy of two great sons … Continue reading