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10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at MicrosoftBefore 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 XPI 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 SecurityA 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 headlineA 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 ... 
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 . . . → Read More: 10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft 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 Our Security Research and Defense team published a blog post, which is really interesting to read to understand how to protect Windows Vista and Windows 7: On the effectiveness of DEP and ASLR. There is a lot of information on how both raise the bar for attackers. These are the key take away: DEP and . . . → Read More: On the effectiveness of DEP and ASLR A quick one: An interesting download location: With the SDL Quick Security References (QSR), the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team introduces a series of basic guidance papers designed to address common vulnerabilities from the perspective of multiple business roles – business decision maker, architect, developer, and tester/QA. These papers will help you address a critical . . . → Read More: Security Development Lifecycle: Quick References 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 And everybody tells me how secure they are….. So,according to this article Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today, apple hast most vulns, then Oracle and then us (and then the rest). And you know, the interesting thing is that the comparison is not “apples with apples” as we tend to . . . → Read More: Secunia: Apple makes the most vulnerable software in the market today 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 I was recently pinged by a customer asking for the “real” version of this game. It was distributed at RSA in the US and I do not have any anymore – but you can still print it yourself. So, if you want to introduce SDL or if you introduced it already and want to . . . → Read More: Want to introduce the Security Development Lifecycle? Play a Game 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 well. One of the ways is to communicate through our website. Not, that this is . . . → Read More: Security Development Lifecycle – Website! |
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