• Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

    Well, we call it simply DaRT. You know the feeling: A machine does not boot anymore, crashed, has a virus you cannot clean with the OS in a running state or any of the other nightmare scenarios in daily operations of computers. Since quite some time there...
  • 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...
  • Public Testing for Office

    Are you working on Office System 2007? Ever looked for a command, you knew in 2003 exactly where it is but you were unable to locate it? Well, do not get me wrong: Since I am used to the Ribbon, I love it – really. And my wife is all of a sudden able...
  • The ideal profile of a CSO

    I was in Bratislava this week for an IDC Conference. During these kind of events I often talk to the press as well. Additionally I had this time the opportunity to talk to a pretty well-known blogger in Slovakia called Jozef Vyskoč . You may have a look...
  • “The Security Business has no Future” (Quote by IBM)

    This is actually an interesting statement. If you had ever to deal with the press you know how these headlines are composed. It might be that the person actually made the sentence in this way – the question is whether he meant it so absolute. Nevertheless...