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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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Monitoring the Virtual Environment
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 Read More...
Posted 08 September 09 11:44 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Windows 7 XP Mode - Sophos error: facts not found
Well, the title is not completely from me – I just quoted another blog post. I wrote recently on Why Windows 7 XP Mode makes sense from a security perspective and was even quoted on the register. The “funny” thing was the history of that blog: I was readying Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 09:09 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Role EAL 4+ certified by BSI
That’s new: We have Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Common Criteria EAL 4+ certified. The new thing is that we certified it in Germany by the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik). You can find the report here: https://www.bsi.bund.de/cae/servlet/contentblob/612768/publicationFile/35487/0570a_pdf.pdf Read More...
Posted 14 August 09 11:17 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Manage Network Access Protection at Microsoft
As you know, I am a big fan of the concepts behind Network Access Protection as it allows to dynamically define zones on you network. We just published a whitepaper called Manage Network Access Protection at Microsoft : Network Access Protection (NAP) Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 11:04 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Securing Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure
A lot of people and companies are talking about “the Cloud” today. I guess that there are not too many companies that share the same track record of running online services as Microsoft. 1994 we launched MSN and since then we are in this business. Microsoft Read More...
Posted 28 May 09 09:44 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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How we do IT: Direct Access
You might know that we have something we call the Microsoft IT Showcase , where our internal IT shows how they use our technology to run our environment. Now, we just published a new article, which might be interesting for you to read called Using DirectAccess Read More...
Posted 25 May 09 10:02 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Patch Management, a key step towards compliance!
As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance – honestly, I actually played with our latest technology . I wrote about Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Now, Read More...
Posted 22 May 09 02:18 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Development Lifecycle Template – Your next step to “Secure Development”
You might remember it: January 15th, 2002 Bill Gates wrote the famous memo on Trustworthy Computing to all the employees at Microsoft. This was probably one of the biggest initiatives at Microsoft and radically changed the way we develop software (and Read More...
Posted 19 May 09 07:07 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2
We recently revealed the File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2. This infrastructure can help you to classify files not only based on the location where it is stored but based on content as well. However, there is not too much value Read More...
Posted 14 May 09 04:56 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Schedule update on Forefront
You know that I am a big fan of what we are going to deliver with our Forefront Suite in the next version code-named Stirling. You probably heard me talking about compliance (where, from a technical perspective Forefront can play an integral part) and Read More...
Posted 13 April 09 04:14 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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You deployed MS09-008 – are you now protected?
You might have seen several reports that MS09-008 does not protect you from the vulnerabilities. We reviewed these claims and customers who have deployed MS09-008 are protected from the four vulnerabilities. If you want to have the details, you should Read More...
Posted 14 March 09 04:18 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Deploying PKI
Recently I decided to spend some time to implement some new technologies in my environment at home. The environment itself is a mixture between test and production. If you are reading this post on www.halbheer.info/security , you are already accessing Read More...
Posted 12 March 09 04:49 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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The Impact of the Security Development Lifecycle
Jeff Jones just started a blog series to show the impact of our Security Development Lifecycle on the updates to be deployed. It is a pretty interesting read: Here is the February version: Feb09 Security Bulletin SDL Benefit Summary Roger Read More...
Posted 18 February 09 12:24 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Insights into Windows 7 Engineering
Are you interested to learn how Windows 7 (next version of Windows) is engineered? Are you willing to get in touch with the engineering team? Then read their blog: Engineering Windows 7 Roger Read More...
Posted 18 August 08 11:13 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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