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January, 2011

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  • Blocking Social Media–What is Your View?

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    If you are reading my blog posts regularly, you might have seen that I am not a big friend of blocking social media at the edge. When I talk with customers about why they are blocking it, I usually get these type of answers: People are spending...

  • Moving my blog!!

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Well, I will continue to announce this, until I see the hitrate decline At the moment, I am running two blogs. This one and the one on http://www.halbheer.info/security which both contain more or less the same content. I am still planning to move over...

  • Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks?

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    There is an good article on CIO Central: Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks? An interesting discussion and I part agree that we have to challenge the way we look at the security risks. I would even broaden the questions he raises. When I talk...

  • Phishing still very effective: 35 cards in 5 hours

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I just read this blog post by ESET laboratories: Inside a phishing attack: 35 credit cards in 5 hours . They analyzed a very poorly designed phishing attack and found that: The first access to the site was on January 20 at 10:01 pm (as seen in picture...

  • From the Inside: Our CISO on Cloud Security

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    You are worried about compliance and risks in the cloud? Well, listen to our CISO and see his views: The promise of cloud computing is great and yet this new computing paradigm presents new challenges in the area of information security. In this session...

  • How to Build a CERT

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Often, when governments look into Critical Infrastructure Protection, they start to build a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) or a CSIRT (Computer Security and Incident Response Team). The questions then always comes up: How do you do that? ENISA...

  • Moving Blogs

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Quite a while ago, I started a second blog outside our technet site. One of the reasons was that I realized that a lot of people who are interested in the policy, political, process dimension of security do not read a blog on technet as it is the environment...

  • Conclusion on UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I told you that I will attend the UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime , which is now slowly coming to an end. Let me draw a few conclusions on the meeting. It was not the first UN meeting I attended and – depending on the audience – the discussion...

  • Attacks on Application Level

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    That the attacks move up the stack is really nothing new. However, it increases the challenge to secure your environment as you have to take Patch Management all the way. I blogged on that several times already e.g.: Patch Management, a key step towards...

  • UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    From tomorrow on, UNDOC invited for an Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime in Vienna. I am really interested in seeing hoe these discussions will go. If – by any chance – you are there as well, please ping me and we will have a chat. Otherwise, I will...

  • Real Physical Security

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I saw this this morning – have a great weekend: Roger

  • Cybercrime as a Service–Our Future?

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    It is not really surprising that the criminals will leverage the economy of Cloud Computing for their illegal purposes. Especially activities, which consume a lot of processor power will be moved to the Cloud – like any other business. Some way back,...

  • Dilbert on Cloud Computing

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    The worst thing is, that there is some truth in that: At least, this is what I see often, before I talk to customers Roger

  • Exciting News from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    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: Or directly from the CES webpage . Roger

  • Targeted Attacks: The Biggest Risk in 2011?

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Since quite a while, I am saying that targeted attacks are the risks, which really keep me up at night. BBC just posted a similar article: Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears I think that this is a real issue and very hard to fight! Roger
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