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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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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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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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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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Microsoft Security Essentials – Ready to download
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. Read More...
Posted 29 September 09 06:20 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Moving to the Cloud: Where it worked and where I was challenged
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 Read More...
Posted 21 September 09 09:46 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft SDL Team Releases New Security Testing Tools
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 Read More...
Posted 16 September 09 03:10 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Typing Arabic without a Arabic Keyboard: Microsoft Maren
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 Read More...
Posted 09 September 09 10:44 by rhalbh | 1 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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Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 2 – Vulnerabilities
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 (SIR) Read More...
Posted 03 September 09 10:11 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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Internet Explorer 8 best to protect customer
NSSLabs just recently published a study on browser security with regards to Phising and Malware protection, which we comissioned. To take it upfront: The whole methodology is transperent and therefore rather than challenging the results, let’s learn from Read More...
Posted 21 August 09 04:25 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Why Windows 7 XP Mode makes sense from a security perspective
I have to admit: When I first learned about Windows 7 XP Mode I was quite surprised. How can we actually ship an XP Virtual Machine with Windows 7? Well, then I started to think (no, it did not hurt too much)… But before I share my findings with you, Read More...
Posted 17 August 09 02:19 by rhalbh | 9 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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Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure?
As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance. I wrote about Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Patch Management, a key step towards compliance! Especially Read More...
Posted 11 August 09 05:20 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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