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Tag Archives: Government
Cloud Computing: Benefits and Risks of Moving Federal IT into the Cloud
July 1st, Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing was testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Basically the hearing was on the benefits and risk of Cloud adoption for the US government. If … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Government, Industry, Microsoft
Tagged Cloud, Cybersecurity Agenda, Government, Legislation, Strategy
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The Importance of International Collaboration–Even in Exercises
One of the biggest challenges in Critical Infrastructure Protection or Incident Response is collaboration. Collaboration between the public and the private sector as the private sector is most often running the critical infrastructure; collaboration between different governments as well as … Continue reading
Notebook searches at a country border
I guess you still know the discussions a while ago where it was made public that notebooks can be searched without suspicion when you cross the border to the US. Actually the truth is, that this can happen everywhere as … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation
Tagged Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Policies
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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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Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) – Key Messages
I blogged on Day 1 and Day 2 but as I expected, I was unable to blog yesterday on the conference. However, let me just briefly give you my impression of the final day: The core part of this last … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Terrorism
Tagged Cloud, Crime, Critical Infrastructure, Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation
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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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Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 1
A few years ago, the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime was signed within the Council of Europe. Since then it was ratified all across the globe by a lot of countries or at least used as the base for legislation. Since … Continue reading
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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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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