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International Collaboration on Policies for Cybersecurity and Data Protection
Since a few years we are working with the Council of Europe in a partnership to help to drive a Cybersecurity treaty. We realize that a problem a lot of Law Enforcement agencies have is inconsistent legislation which makes is unbelievably hard to catch Read More...
Posted 05 November 09 09:41 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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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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Is the “Managed Desktop” the ultimate solution?
When I talk about the big trends, one of them is about the call of the younger generation for more flexibility. Flexibility in this context is about where you work, when you work and how you organize yourself. If you take this as a given, you have to Read More...
Posted 01 September 09 10:39 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Policies – Confidentiality
Hmm, think about it, when you write the next version of your policy: Roger Read More...
Posted 01 September 09 08:44 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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Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 1 – Data Breaches
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. Returning to the theme of deploying security updates Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 11:20 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Why it pays to be secure - Introduction
Henk van Roest, our EMEA Security Program Manager is running a pretty successful internal blog. Before summer vacation he started a series called “Why it pays to be secure” which I think has some great information in it. I asked him then to go public Read More...
Posted 22 August 09 12:06 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Legal Risks of the Cloud
I just stumbled across an interesting blog post named Legal Implications of Cloud Computing . I am not a lawyer and therefore unable to judge the details but overall it gives a good view of the risks and challenges. Roger Read More...
Posted 20 August 09 02:36 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Kaspersky’s View of a Secure Internet – Does this make sense? I think not
A few months ago, I already had some discussions with Eugene Kaspersky during an event of the Council of Europe on Cybercrime, how to address cybercrime on the Internet. At the moment, I am at a very, very slot connection and just got, what I saw on my Read More...
Posted 19 July 09 06:33 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Physical Security: ATMs equipped with Pepper Spray
This is “real” hard-core security. If the ATM feels that it is tempered with, it releases pepper spray. It is kind of a “self-defense” mechanism. I just hope it never thinks that I am tempering with the machine when I just want to get money… ATMs fitted Read More...
Posted 10 July 09 02:36 by rhalbh | 1 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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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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Google Chrome and Silent Patching
This morning I opened one of the Swiss Sunday newspapers and Google Chrome made it to the front-page with a “best practice approach” for deploying security updates. In the article itself it was claimed that Chrome is one of the best browsers with regards Read More...
Posted 11 May 09 03:58 by rhalbh | 18 Comments   
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The Carbon Footprint of Spam
McAfee just published an interesting report as they are taking a different approach on Spam. They were looking at the environmental impact of Spam. So, how much energy do we have to invest in order to fight spam? These are the key findings from their Read More...
Posted 25 April 09 09:36 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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The Windows 7 UAC “Vulnerability”
It is always interesting how some things spin off. The claimed UAC vulnerability in Windows 7 in one of those events. There are numerous blogs which claim that they found a huge vulnerability in Windows 7. The reason for that is that you can change the Read More...
Posted 03 February 09 10:03 by rhalbh | 22 Comments   
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