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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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