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 January 12th, 2012%
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
By Roger Halbheer, on October 27th, 2011% 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 . . . → Read More: Cybersecurity–More than a good headline
By Roger Halbheer, on October 19th, 2011% A few years ago I posted on DaRT after having seen it: Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset. It is a really good an interesting tool for a lot of problems, one of them being incident response. I just stumbled across one article describing this: Using the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) for Incident Response.
. . . → Read More: Using the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) for Incident Response
By Roger Halbheer, on October 12th, 2011% This is actually an interesting approach: VeriSign Proposes Takedown Procedures and Malware Scanning for .Com. This leads to the discussion I have so often: What is more important? The single website or the greater good? Now, do not get me wrong: I see the risks of VeriSign taking down microsoft.com because a blog hosted there . . . → Read More: VeriSign to Take Down Malware Sites?
By Roger Halbheer, on July 28th, 2011% I know, I have been fairly slow in blogging currently but I was fairly busy with a few cool projects (which I will disclose later) and – time flies if you are having fun
Just a quick one:
The MMPC on Facebook and Twitter
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) officially launched its Facebook page . . . → Read More: Microsoft Malware Protection Center on Facebook and Twitter
By Roger Halbheer, on July 6th, 2011% As you might remember, on Match 16th Microsoft together with other industry players was successfully able to take down the Rustock botnet and thus significantly reducing the spam level.
We now just published a special Intelligence Report on this botnet:
Read an overview of the Win32/Rustock family of rootkit-enabled backdoor Trojans background, functionality, how it . . . → Read More: Special Intelligence Report on the Rustock Takedown
By Roger Halbheer, on June 16th, 2011% You might have known the 10 Immutable Laws Of Security since quite a while. It is kind of the “collected non-technical wisdom” of what we see in security respeonse being it in Microsoft Security Response Center or in our Security Product Support.
There is now a version 2, which is still as important as version . . . → Read More: Ten Immutable Laws Of Security (Version 2.0)
By Roger Halbheer, on February 20th, 2011% A new version of this guide went live – I think something, you should look at. There is a metrology and a process in detail:
So, if you want to learn more: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc162838.aspx
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on February 17th, 2011% Microsoft Malware Protection Center published a document on Battling the Zbot Threat, a special edition of the Security Intelligence Report. It is a very good document, worth looking at.
This is the intro (to make you curious for more):
This document provides an overview of the Win32/Zbot family of password-stealing trojans. The document examines the . . . → Read More: Fighting a Botnet
By Roger Halbheer, on October 12th, 2010% Stuxnet is a severe threat – that’s something we know for sure. But if we look at it – what do we really know? What can we learn?
Let’s start from the beginning. As soon as Stuxnet hit the news, it was interesting to see, what was happening. There was a ton of speculation out . . . → Read More: Stuxnet talks – do we listen?
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