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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...
The Future of the Internet in 2020
This is a pretty interesting survey: Future of the Internet III: How the Experts See It Here are the key findings: The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020. The transparency of people and Read More...
Posted 25 August 09 06:58 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure?
As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance. I wrote about Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Patch Management, a key step towards compliance! Especially 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...
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...
Network Access Protection Client for Mac and Linux
This is very exciting news: Unet , one of our NAP partners now delivers a NAP Client for Mac and Linux . Here are some very cool screenshots from their website: This is the Windows Client : Here for Mac : And finally for Linux : If you are running mixed Read More...
Deploying IPsec Server and Domain Isolation using Windows Server 2008 Group Policy
As you know (at least I hope that you do) we introduced Network Access Protection with Windows Server 2008. Thomas Shinder now published an article on WindowsSecurity.com about how to implement NAP and IPSec and Domain Isolation via Group Policies. It Read More...
Network Access Protection Design Guide
If you are looking into deploying Network Access Protection, have a look at the recently published Network Access Protection Design Guide Roger Read More...
Some Thoughts on UAC
I blogged several times already on UAC as this has been (and partly still is) a very disputed security feature in Windows Vista (which I still support!). I just found today a not really new blog post on UAC, which I think is worth reading. It is from Read More...
Why I do not like e-voting (part 3)
It goes on and on and on: Read this one Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security Roger Read More...
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...
Some Thoughts on Today’s Bulletins
As always: It is the second Tuesday of the months and we released the Security Updates. However, this month is special from one perspective: We released an update for the DNS resolver, which is released simultaneously by a lot of DNS vendors with the Read More...
On-Premise vs. On-Demand (or SaaS) – A Quocirca Report
I was made aware of a pretty good report on Software as a Service Quocirca did in collaboration with Microsoft. It is not the kind of "new, what you never heard before"-thing but I personally think that it is a good investment of time to get an overview Read More...
Posted 04 June 08 09:00 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security
Fresh out of press (ok, it is out since beginning of April but I just saw it now): Brian Komar, the well-known author of several PKI books on Windows Server just released a new book called Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security . If you are Read More...
The “successful” attack on Cardspace
I guess you read it as it was pretty wide-spread in the press in the last few days: On the Insecurity of Microsoft's Identity Metasystem CardSpace . Well, is there any official Microsoft reaction to it? No, not yet and if you look a little bit more in Read More...
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