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 August 24th, 2010% I think I told the story thousands of time and everybody knows it but I will do it the 1001st time now . When I joined Microsoft and became what is the Chief Security Advisor for Switzerland today, we had an airlift for Windows Server 2003. The Product Manager in Switzerland asked me to keynote . . . → Read More: The Importance of Application Security
By Roger Halbheer, on June 23rd, 2010% 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 – was about security and as I look at it (and as I said), this starts . . . → Read More: Mature your IT and then move to the Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on June 18th, 2010% I just want to make you aware the Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 are going out of support. There are a few good blog post you should look at:
End of Support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista (with no service packs installed) End of support for Windows 2000 and Extended Support phase . . . → Read More: End of Support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2
By Roger Halbheer, on June 9th, 2010% The debate is probably as old as the Open Source software development model: Which one is more secure: Open Source or shared source as we at Microsoft run it? I know that we could now enter a religious debate about that, which I do not want to as I do not really believe in the . . . → Read More: Open Source and Hackers
By Roger Halbheer, on June 8th, 2010% This morning I was reading an article called Google seeks to assure customers on cloud security practices on ComputerWeekly. I had to read this – obviously . It references a paper written by the Google Security Officer called Security Whitepaper: Google Apps Messaging and Collaboration Products. So, I read through it and to me it . . . → Read More: We Need Solid and Strong Transparent Processes for the Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on May 25th, 2010% Kim Cameron, one of our key identity architects had an interesting presentation on identity in the cloud and a corresponding interview. Both are worth looking at if you are planning to move into the direction of the cloud. Especially as it is definitely one of the key challenges:
This is Kim’s presentation:
If . . . → Read More: Identity in the Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on May 19th, 2010% Ait ss you know from my postings on Cloud and security and the paper on the Cloud Security Considerations we wrote, I am convinced that there are five areas you should look at, when you try to migrate to the Cloud:
Compliance and Risk Management Identity and Access Management Service Integrity Endpoint Integrity Information Protection . . . → Read More: Customer Stories: Why it is not THAT easy to move to the Cloud
By Roger Halbheer, on May 2nd, 2010% 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 are running different pilots in different offices like Amsterdam or Zurich to learn what we . . . → Read More: How to Align Work Live and Private Live
By Roger Halbheer, on April 21st, 2010% 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 bodies. The report is written by two bodies who had the privilege to investigate those . . . → Read More: A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?
By Roger Halbheer, on April 19th, 2010% I am one of the grounded people. Luckily for me, I would have had to fly out today and am now “stuck” at home. It is not so fortunate for the event organizer which has a significant amount of sessions he has to do on LiveMeeting now. On the other hand, maybe that this is . . . → Read More: What we can learn for the volcanic cloud for information security
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