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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...
SAFECode released „Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development”
SAFECode just released a new paper called Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development . This is a collaboration of different people from different companies (SAP, EMC, Symantec, Juniper, Nokia and Microsoft). As you probably know, SAFECode is Read More...
Service Oriented Architecture and the Security Implications
I was just posting on SOA and the Security Implications of it from a CIO/CSO perspective on my other blog. If you are interested, here is the link Roger Read More...
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Support for Law Enforcement and COFEE
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of chatter about a tool we provide in a Beta version to Law Enforcement called COFEE: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. Let me give you some information on COFEE and put it into the proper context. Read More...
Security Updates and Exploits
As you may know, we announced version four of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report earlier this week. Amongst the many interesting findings is data which relates to software vulnerability exploits. I wanted to highlight these as Shoaib, one of my Read More...
0-Day-Patch – An new Metric for Security?
The Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich released a study at Blackhat, which is definitely worth looking into. Now, let's be serious: They looked at a metric they call 0-Day-Patch being the number of patches a vendor is able to release at the day Read More...
Common Criteria and answering the “real” questions
It seems that I am not yet gone J . Eric Bidstrup, a colleague of mine, wrote a great blog post about Common Criteria, where it does a pretty good job and where it fails. Basically he claims – and I could not agree more – that the customer "only" wants Read More...
Microsoft has the shortest Security Update Development cycle
Have you had a look at Symantec's latest Threat Report? It can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/content/de/de/about/downloads/PressCenter/ISTRXII_Main.pdf I briefly read through it and one statement caught my eye: Page 54: Of the five operating Read More...
6 Month Windows Vista Vulnerability Report
Jeff just posted his next version of the Windows Vista Vulnerability report to his blog. He is now looking at the first six months of Windows Vista and how the vulnerabilities developed compared to Windows XP and some other Operating Systems. Happy reading: Read More...
The Race for the first Vista Vulnerability
It is really interesting to see: At the moment there seems to be a big race to find the first real Windows Vista vulnerability and to go public with it. I know that there are some reports out there claiming that the found THE single biggest issue in Vista. Read More...

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