October 2009 - Posts

Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series for IE 8 and Windows 7
Just a brief one: the Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series has been updated to incorporate Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7. So, to help you to manage security and compliance in your environment, you should have a look at it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/cc835245.aspx Read More...
Posted 30 October 09 06:09 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Look at the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit
Recently we announced the availability of the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit. This is a toolkit which makes it easier to defend your application on different levels – free of charge. Read the post done by our Security Research and Defense guys: Read More...
Posted 29 October 09 02:26 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Secure Datacenter, Secure Cloud, Secure Government
At the moment I invest a lot of my time in a Whitepaper on Client and Cloud Security. There are a few fundamentals, which are already clear to me: You will not be able to run a trusted cloud ecosystem without a trusted client and trusted interactions. Read More...
Posted 28 October 09 09:06 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Pandemic Planning (Dilbert)
Get ready for the swineflu: Roger Read More...
Posted 26 October 09 06:44 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Could Microsoft solve the scareware problem?
This morning I read the following article: Microsoft can help kill fake antivirus threat . And interesting approach. The proposal is that we could white-list all the legitimate security software within the OS in order to make it harder to trick the user. Read More...
Posted 22 October 09 08:55 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 3 – But how do I?
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. Security — you hear about it every day. Being responsible Read More...
Posted 18 October 09 08:20 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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COFEE now distributed via a NW3C as well
COFEE is a tool available to Law Enforcement only to capture online evidence with a little training as possible. The idea behind the tool is, that there is little need for high-trained staff to be available during e.g. house searches and that a normal, Read More...
Posted 16 October 09 11:15 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Software Piracy – A Threat to Security!
Beginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the conclusion, that there most probably is: Is Read More...
Posted 14 October 09 02:08 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit moved to Codeplex
Quite a while ago I blogged about the SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit. I just wanted to make you aware that this toolkit is now moved to Codeplex and can be found here: http://cks.codeplex.com/ Roger Read More...
Posted 14 October 09 01:20 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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The Africa Cable – A Chance for Africa! – A Threat for the Internet?
The development in Africa especially with the new broadband services to me is a huge chance for the whole continent. I just found this map on the next two years: source: IntelFusion Even though I have not been in Africa over the last few months, I heard Read More...
Posted 07 October 09 04:10 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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What’s the “Cloud” or better “What’s not a Cloud”
On analyst (and very active Tweeter on http://twitter.com/monkchips ) quite a while ago (March 08) published a post, which we recently drew up in one of the cloud discussions: If you peel back the label and its says “Grid” or “ OGSA ” underneath… its Read More...
Posted 02 October 09 06:45 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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