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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
Filed under Cybercrime, Policy, Processes
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
Filed under Security, Policy, Microsoft, Processes, Events/Training, Technology, Behaviour
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
Filed under Security, Trends, Policy, Microsoft, Processes
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
Filed under Security, Microsoft Products, Policy, Processes
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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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
Filed under Policy, Processes, Cloud Computing
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
Filed under Microsoft Products, Policy, Microsoft, Processes
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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Stealing the Empire State Building in 90 Minutes: You do not trust e-Business? Why do you trust “normal” business then? Read this: Newspaper 'Steals' Empire State Building in Just 90 Minutes Roger Read More...
Posted 18 December 08 05:58 by rhalbh | 0 Comments
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Risk of Outsourcing (and Security Outsourcing): I am often asked about the risks of outsourcing (we often talk about processes, legal risks (e.g. Data Protection), etc.) – the list is very long. Today I read an article which touches a completely different issue: It is all about the security processes Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 10:56 by rhalbh | 2 Comments
Filed under Cybercrime, Policy, Processes, Incidents
Rent a Botnet on eBay (Part 2): You might have seen my recent blogpost on the botnet on eBay. They have seen it (we briefly touched base on that) and – now it's gone: Cool stuff! Roger Read More...
Posted 12 September 08 11:48 by rhalbh | 0 Comments
Filed under Cybercrime, Policy, Processes
Why I do not like e-Voting (Part 2): As you might know, I blogged on e-Voting recently ( Why I do not like e-Voting ) and got quite some reactions. A few here but most of them privately. Most of you seem to like e-Voting. Now, think again! Look at this article here Evaluating the Security Read More...
Posted 09 September 08 06:31 by rhalbh | 0 Comments
Filed under Cybercrime, Policy, Processes, Critical Infrastructure Protection
Servers still not patched: I just read an article this morning on Linux servers under the Phalanx gun: A problem with people, not code . There were quite some things which made me think when I read it: There was a statement in there, which I – obviously – did not like at all: Linux Read More...
Posted 29 August 08 12:20 by rhalbh | 1 Comments
Filed under Policy, Processes, Patch Management, Competition
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
Filed under Microsoft Products, Policy, Processes, Technology
Security through Collaboration: If you ever heard me keynote an event you know that one of the key messages I have is, that partnerships are necessary in order to be able to protect against today's threats. At Black Hat USA we just announced a new program called Microsoft Active Protections Read More...
Posted 06 August 08 04:35 by rhalbh | 0 Comments
Filed under Security, Policy, Microsoft, Processes, Incidents

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