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 November 4th, 2011% I tried to convince my wife that using the Windows Phone 7 to keep track of the shopping to do is a cool idea. Well, she is not there (yet). And now I saw the latest commercial…
Probably I should convince my kids, not my wife
Roger
. . . → Read More: Connecting with your Windows Phone 7
By Roger Halbheer, on October 23rd, 2011% The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit is definitely not new but I recently realized that not too many people know about it – and they should. EMET helps you to raise your shields against zero-days and any exploit in the wild. I do not say that it is a silver bullet but it is definitely going . . . → Read More: EMET–Protection Against Zero-Days
By Roger Halbheer, on October 20th, 2011% Well, I have to admit – I am biased. I never used an iPhone in my life and based on my experience with my iPod, I hope I never have to, but who knows. I really do not like the UI which – to me – is everything but user friendly and the worst thing . . . → Read More: Comparing Windows Phone 7 and iPhone
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 June 21st, 2011% One of the things which surprises me often, when talking to customers is, that they do not know, when certain (key) products run out of support – and therefore no security updates will be shipped.
You should include the following dates in your plans:
Windows XP Home: Mainstream support ended 4/14/2009 Windows XP Professional: Extended . . . → Read More: Windows Lifecycle and Support
By Roger Halbheer, on June 8th, 2011% Quite a while ago, I blogged about the File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2:
File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure:More content
In my opinion, this is an interesting tool, built in to your server platform.
Now, we just published a paper about how we use this File Classification . . . → Read More: How Microsoft Uses File Classification Infrastructure
By Roger Halbheer, on April 19th, 2011% Actually, there is not much to say about this. It is a blog post by CanegieMellon called A Security Comparison: Microsoft Office vs. Oracle Openoffice and just does what it says. However, I do not particularly like the security comparison of products built solely on vulnerabilities as this shows only one side of the equation . . . → Read More: A Security Comparison: Microsoft Office vs. Oracle Openoffice
By Roger Halbheer, on April 1st, 2011% On March 24th, we got the certificate for the Common Criteria certification for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 on EAL 4+.
Here are the certified products: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/products/ and here you find the certificate.
A great job by the team – congratulations!
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on February 11th, 2011% You might have seen it: IE9 RC is now ready for download. I am using IE9 since quite a while and it really, really rocks. Install it from here.
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on January 6th, 2011% After the launch of different products for the consumer, businesses and in the Cloud, Steve Ballmer opened CES today in Las Vegas. You should look at it. There are a few very cool announcements Roger . . . → Read More: Exciting News from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas
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