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Thoughts on the Registered Traveler Programs at Airports
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
When I entered the US this time, I got a brochure on how I could avoid the line at immigration and just get a fast track by registering with the Global Entry Program , a program, which would pre-screen me and then I just have to register with a machine...
Microsoft Security Essentials – Ready to download
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
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Why pay for a Anti-Malware solution if you can get one of the best solutions in the world for free – go and download it! It is there: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ And now, the disclaimer: It runs only on genuine Windows! Have fun, enjoy...
Interesting Cyber Security Challenge
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
I read an article on Cyber Security Challenge Brings Out the Best about a “defend your system” challenge by the USENIX Security Conference in Montreal, Canada. I like the approach: Find and fix common vulnerabilities on a web server. Roger
Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
I recently had different discussions with different customers and we were looking into the key questions to ask, when you plan to move to the cloud (yes, I am working on a corresponding blog post). I was then asked whether we have an answer to these questions...
When it comes to security, who do you trust more - Microsoft or Google?
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
I started to read the article and actually just wanted to Tweet about it but then I voted and had to publish at least the current state: When it comes to security, who do you trust more? Microsoft (44%) Google (32%) Neither (22%) Both...
Do you really want to move to the Cloud? Really?
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
Well, the question is not too provocative. The longer I look into the risk, the more I am asking this question. Now, we have to separate the different company sizes. I guess for a small and medium business – with the correct safety measures – it makes...
IT outsourcing most affected by data leaks – What about the Cloud?
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
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I recently asked in a panel, where the difference is between Cloud Computing and classical outsourcing – I kind of became unpopular because this is simply uncool… But I stick with it (knowing there are differences) but the difference is not that big in...
Moving to the Cloud: Where it worked and where I was challenged
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
I am running a whole environment at home to experience our technology. However, up to now it was all “on premise”, no Cloud integration. This has to change. Therefore I was more than happy to join our internal Hosted Exchange 14 beta program. We...
When Goog becomes your Roommate (a “must see”)
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
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I just found that this morning. If you have 15 minutes, you have to watch these videos. They are really fun (are they?): Enjoy! I did (partly) Roger
Microsoft SDL Team Releases New Security Testing Tools
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
I often mention that we try to give you all the tools we have as long as it makes sense form a risk perspective. The risk perspective is a simple one: If we give it to you as our customer, we give it as well to the criminals. There are two new tools which...
H1N1 (Swine) Flu Preparedness - Guide for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
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This morning I stumbled across a guide by the US Health & Human Services with regards to H1N1. Even though it did not catch much news lately I am not sure whether it is really over. Staying prepared it definitely not a bad thing. Even though it is...
Typing Arabic without a Arabic Keyboard: Microsoft Maren
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
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I am using a Latin keyboard and my Arabic is kind of “rusty” but I guess that this could be of real help if you write Arabic: Microsoft Maren There is a good video on that page. Roger
Monitoring the Virtual Environment
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
I recently blogged on how I monitor my environment: Monitoring - a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure? In the meantime, I am doing more. I was just recently looking into System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). So, I installed it on my monitoring...
PHP on Windows Server 2008 – My New Photo Gallery
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
Well, it was one of these days. In order to make photos available to our family we used SharePoint since quite a while. It did a fairly decent job but I wanted more fancy stuff. So I started to look for something in Silverlight as Silverlight is our web...
Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 2 – Vulnerabilities
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
Our EMEA Security Program Manager, Henk van Roest, started this series internally and with his consent I am publishing it here in my blog as I think it contains a lot of great information for you to use. The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report...
Is the “Managed Desktop” the ultimate solution?
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over 4 years ago
by
rhalbheer
When I talk about the big trends, one of them is about the call of the younger generation for more flexibility. Flexibility in this context is about where you work, when you work and how you organize yourself. If you take this as a given, you have to...
Security Policies – Confidentiality
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over 4 years ago
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rhalbheer
Hmm, think about it, when you write the next version of your policy: Roger