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Talking about Transparency – Windows Azure Dashboard
This is a nice feature – on this page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/support/status/servicedashboard.aspx we show the current state of our Azure services. This is the kind of transparency (on the operations’ side) we need. There is much more needed Read More...
Posted 20 November 09 09:21 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google’s Chrome OS
To be clear upfront: This is not a “Microsoft versus Google” post. I cannot even judge how far Google pushed security with the Chrome OS. But the following article raised quite some questions how we look at security: Inside the Google Chrome OS security Read More...
Posted 19 November 09 10:18 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Why it pays to be secure – Chapter 4 – I want to learn!
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. Use these Learning Paths to find a range of Microsoft Read More...
Posted 13 November 09 03:04 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
COFEE freely downloadable on the Internet?
You definitely have heard of COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) which we make freely available to Law Enforcement through Interpol and NW3C. Now, the probably unavoidable happened and the tool leaked to the Internet. There was actually Read More...
Posted 10 November 09 06:44 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 05 November 09 09:41 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Power of Knowledge: Security Intelligence Report v7
It is a good tradition since quite a while that we make the intelligence we have available accessible to the broad public. This will help out customers to protect themselves much better. The Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is built on a unparalleled Read More...
Posted 02 November 09 05:06 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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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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Secure Datacenter, Secure Cloud, Secure Government
At the moment I invest a lot of my time in a Whitepaper on Client and Cloud Security. There are a few fundamentals, which are already clear to me: You will not be able to run a trusted cloud ecosystem without a trusted client and trusted interactions. Read More...
Posted 28 October 09 09:06 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Pandemic Planning (Dilbert)
Get ready for the swineflu: Roger Read More...
Posted 26 October 09 06:44 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Could Microsoft solve the scareware problem?
This morning I read the following article: Microsoft can help kill fake antivirus threat . And interesting approach. The proposal is that we could white-list all the legitimate security software within the OS in order to make it harder to trick the user. Read More...
Posted 22 October 09 08:55 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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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COFEE now distributed via a NW3C as well
COFEE is a tool available to Law Enforcement only to capture online evidence with a little training as possible. The idea behind the tool is, that there is little need for high-trained staff to be available during e.g. house searches and that a normal, Read More...
Posted 16 October 09 11:15 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Software Piracy – A Threat to Security!
Beginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the conclusion, that there most probably is: Is Read More...
Posted 14 October 09 02:08 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit moved to Codeplex
Quite a while ago I blogged about the SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit. I just wanted to make you aware that this toolkit is now moved to Codeplex and can be found here: http://cks.codeplex.com/ Roger Read More...
Posted 14 October 09 01:20 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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