Posted by: Matt Thomlinson , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing. In my blog post earlier this week, I shared that I’m traveling in Europe for a series of cybersecurity policy events. This is my second and final post about this trip. After my first stop in Brussels, Belgium for the Global...

The Internet population is expected to double from over 2 billion users today to more than 4 billion by 2020. We are likely to see some considerable advancements in technology, use and approach during this time as the Internet continues to evolve to better meet peoples’ needs. This amount of growth...

Last week, Jan Neutze and I participated in a dinner discussion on “Building a Secure Cyber Future” that the German Mission to the United Nations and the Atlantic Council organized for the members of the United Nations Group of Government Experts (GGE) on Developments in the field of Information...

In the first two parts ( part 1 , part 2 ) of this three part series I focused on the locations in the European Union (EU) that had the highest malware infection rates and/or saw the highest increases in malware infection rates in the second half of 2011. In this final installment of the series I focus...

Trending Security News This week in security news, stories report on the LinkedIn hack, big data, cyber legislation in process, and the consummerization of IT on BYOD trends. Here are some of the security news stories and our two blog picks this week. We focus on highlighting a variety of computer security...

Almost exactly one year ago, I attended the EastWest Institute’s Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in London and in a working group of industry leaders, distinguished scientists and key government officials we met to discuss collective ways to improve global internet health. The group started by...

The Internet now reaches a global population of more than two billion people, and the foundations of modern society are becoming digital. Research shows over the next few years the world will see an unprecedented growth in Internet users, devices and data, which will create vast opportunities for communications...

In the first two parts of this series ( part 1 , part 2 ) I explored some of the ways that the threat landscape has evolved over the past decade and introduced a new special edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) called “ The evolution of malware and the threat landscape – a...

The snake oil salesman was a colorful part of American history, especially in the frontier West. The term comes from people offering what was purported to be oil from a snake to ease the pain of arthritis—though the term soon evolved to cover all manner of phony cures—often with the help...

The world just took another step along the path of creating a more secure global Internet environment. Many more steps remain on this journey, but it was good to read that the US has signed a cybersecurity agreement with India ( read the DHS press release ). A memorandum of understanding between the...

On my reading list last week was a whitepaper from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security entitled “Enabling Distributed Security in Cyberspace.” I took special notice of this paper because the subtitle, “Building a Healthy and Resilient Cyber Ecosystem with Automated Collective Action”, made me think...

Over the past year, we have been looking at how to apply concepts from public health to address internet security. Last week I noticed two new reports published by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) on the topic of botnets. The reports make a key observation that “research on...

Well, this week was pretty lean compared to the plethora of Security topics written last week during RSA.  Still, I was able to find a few nuggets that are interesting or noteworthy.  I am continuing to see the trends that have emerged recently with respect to Cyber threat and stronger government...

Jeff here, bringing you a bit of overview and analysis of the trending security news from this week and links to some blogs, papers and media that you might have missed, but shouldn’t.  Lots of grist for the mill this week because of RSA Conference 2011 . Trending Security News Collective Defense...