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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Microsoft awarded for Security
This is probably one of the best news I read since a long time. I often said, that I am convinced that we are in a lot of areas around security leading the industry. The complexity of building multi-purpose software in a secure way started to be addressed Read More...
Posted 16 June 09 09:03 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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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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A Conversation About Threat Modeling by Michael Howard
Michael Howard, one of our gurus, when it comes to secure code development, wrote a dialogue on SDL and Threat Modeling called A Conversation About Threat Modeling – this is definitely a must read, even if you are not a developer Roger Read More...
Posted 04 May 09 09:10 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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The Impact of the Downturn (part 2)
Just a brief one: I wrote an article for Infosecurity which was just published in the latest version covering the economic downturn as well. It is called Time to Step Up and can be found on page 45 of the latest edition . Roger Read More...
Posted 23 April 09 10:45 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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