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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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Gazelle – the secure Web browser of the future?
This is an interesting paper from Microsoft Research. Now, before you read it: This is research and be no means a commitement to develop it for IE 9. The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser Roger Read More...
Posted 20 February 09 09:52 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Important Privacy Announcement
I  wanted to make you aware of a very important announcement we made earlier today. As you know, Trustworthy Computing is all about Security,  Reliability and Business Practices. Our house has a fourth pillar -  Privacy - which we view Read More...
Posted 09 December 08 07:54 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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H1 OS Desktop Vulnerability Report – Get It Now
You might know Jeff Jones' work on the different vulnerability reports comparing different products and vendors. Our goal is to understand and measure our progress and see where we stand with regards to the industry. Today, Jeff release his OS Desktop Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 03:05 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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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...
Posted 08 October 08 09:35 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Announcing the Exploitability Index
At Blackhat we announced an important change to our Security Bulletins becoming effective during the October release. One of the requests we often heard talking to our customers is, that they would like to get better information on how hard it is to exploit Read More...
Posted 06 August 08 06:23 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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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...
Posted 14 May 08 04:00 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 25 April 08 12:01 by rhalbh | 5 Comments   
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Security Intelligence Report v4 – Live and Ready to be Read
As you (hopefully) know, we publish a Security Intelligence Report every 6 month and today we just released version 4. Let me give you some key findings before you go and read it J Basically the intent of the report is, to provide a comprehensive overview Read More...
Posted 22 April 08 12:13 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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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...
Posted 18 April 08 09:51 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Where next? – Watch out for RSA
We are six years into Trustworthy Computing (TwC). When we launched it, we said a number of things: "It is a 10-year vision". Well, that's something we have had to update. As long as there are criminals out there using the Internet to steal, Trustworthy Read More...
Posted 03 April 08 05:13 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 26 October 07 04:32 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Security Progress at Microsoft (Interview with Scott)
I just stumbled across this interview with Scott Charney (Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing) which is very interesting to read: Q&A: Microsoft no longer a 'laughingstock' of security, Charney says Roger Read More...
Posted 21 September 07 09:45 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Trends on our Malware Portal
I recently blogged about three major announcements we made: http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2007/04/25/three-microsoft-announcements.aspx On that I got some comments (public and private) and some wishes. Thank you all forthis feedback. I linked Read More...
Posted 01 June 07 07:47 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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