Consumerization of IT–How to address this
Bring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ...
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 ...
By Roger Halbheer, on April 5th, 2011% This is one of the rare more private posts on this blog and this time has nothing to do with security at all.
Since ages one singer was always part of my wife’s and my live: Chris de Burgh. And even if it is uncool in our kid’s world, they love him and his songs . . . → Read More: Chris de Burgh: People of the World Stand Up for Freedom
By Roger Halbheer, on March 1st, 2011% Do you know the feeling? You should share a large file with somebody outside your organization. The file is too big to be sent by e-mail. What can you do? Well, you might have a service by internal IT (we have one) which is not really user-friendly, hard to use and – as you do . . . → Read More: Aligning Security with the Business
By Roger Halbheer, on September 17th, 2010% No clue what the source is but if they are right, it is scary: DRG SSH Username and Password Authentication Tag Clouds
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By Roger Halbheer, on May 27th, 2010% Years ago I was sitting in a healthcare event, when a researcher was talking (very excited) about the idea of having a pacemaker with Bluetooth access to fine-tune the system and read information from the sensors. Even though this might medically be a great idea, I would be fairly reluctant having such a thing in . . . → Read More: Hacking the Human Body
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
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