• Security Considerations in a Private Cloud

    I am talking a lot about Cloud Security. There are a few observations I made: Even though a lot of people are talking about the Cloud, there is still not too much knowledge about it. What is a private Cloud versus a public Cloud? What is Infrastructure...
  • Does the business really hate IT?

    Back at the times of outsourcing, there was real tension between IT and the business. Internal IT had the “comfortable” position of having a monopoly: The business used the internal IT and basically just had to pay the bill. Then times came, where the...
  • Windows Lifecycle and Support

    One of the things which surprises me often, when talking to customers is, that they do not know, when certain (key) products run out of support – and therefore no security updates will be shipped. You should include the following dates in your plans:...
  • Ten Immutable Laws Of Security (Version 2.0)

    You might have known the 10 Immutable Laws Of Security since quite a while. It is kind of the “collected non-technical wisdom” of what we see in security respeonse being it in Microsoft Security Response Center or in our Security Product Support. There...
  • Internet Personalization–and How I Never Looked at It…

    This is actually a great speech but very, very, very scary: and the scariest part is that I never looked at it that way but he is right Roger