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Category Archives: Process
Microsoft Security Compliance Manager: Now available!
I recently blogged about the Beta version of our Security Compliance Manger, helping you to manage the security baselines in your organization. There are some screenshots in the corresponding post: Making the Management of Security Compliance Easier! Now, we released … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Process, Products, Security, Strategy
Tagged Compliance, Policies, Risk Assessment
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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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Results of Operation b49 (Botnet Takedown)
On February 24th we announced the work we did on taking down Waledac – read Tim Cranton’s blog post called Cracking Down on Botnets. Now it is time to look back and try to understand what we learned so far. … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Law Enforcement, Microsoft, Partner, Process, Strategy, Trends
Tagged Botnet, Collaboration, Crime, Ecosystem, Government, Law Enforcement, Malware
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Hacking Incidents 2009 – Interesting Data
There is a project called the web hacking incident database (WHID), which collects data and statistics on web-application related security incidents. I was just looking into their report called The Web Hacking Incident Database 2009 which has some pretty interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Incidents, Industry, Process, Trends
Tagged Crime, Cybercrime, Hacking, Incidents
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Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Microsoft, Privacy, Process, Processes, Security, Strategy
Tagged Behavior, Citizens, Cloud, Collaboration, Crime, Government, International, Internet, Jurisdiction, Law Enforcement, Legislation, MLAT, Policy Makers, Privacy
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Security Development Lifecycle – Website!
I often talk about how we learned to engineer security into the products and the results prove that we are on the right track. One of the challenges we always have is how to help the ecosystem to improve as … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Process, Processes, Security
Tagged Development Lifecycle, Ecosystem, News, Threat Modeling
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Questions to Ask your (Security) Vendor
You know that I am a big fan of Security Development Lifecycles as we run it internally to build code which is more resilient against attacks. And I recently blogged on Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google’s … Continue reading
Posted in General, Process, Trends
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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
Posted in People, Policy, Process, Security
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Software Piracy – A Threat to Security!
Beginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the conclusion, that there most … Continue reading
Posted in Piracy, Process
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Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure?
As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance. I wrote about Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Patch Management, a key step towards compliance! … Continue reading
Posted in Process, Products, Technology
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