Collaborate Disseminate
In my last post we looked into why Zero Trust is not this huge revolutionary vision but something reflecting today’s reality. Technology is ready to go –technology is ready for you to embark on a journey and start to align your security arc… Continue reading Zero Trust: Identity at the Core
Since Covd-19 started, I probably talked more about Zero Trust than ever before. Not that the concept is new, but the pressure to apply it, suddenly increased dramatically with all the users sitting at home and not within the “well-protected̶… Continue reading Why Zero Trust reflects today’s challenges
I guess you heard the ruling by the Court of Justice for the European Union on cross-border transfer. I think it is important to understand our position on this as outlined here: Assuring Customers About Cross-Border Data Flows From my point of view th… Continue reading Today’s Court Ruling on Data Privacy in EU
Zero Trust is definitely not new but around for something like 16 years if you look at it. This is, when the Jericho Forum was formally established and Network Access Control architectures started to get deployed (or at least designed). It definitely g… Continue reading Zero Trust in the IoT/OT Space
We talked about this very often so far: Passwords are by far the weakest link when it comes to security today. 81% of successful attacks involve lost, breached or re-used passwords. There is another fairly current article mentioning that, even when it … Continue reading Hackers don’t break in – they log in
With countries slowly trying to find a way back to a new normality, contact tracing is one of the means to keep the infection rate on an acceptable level. Digitalization might be one way to support these activities – the corresponding apps on pho… Continue reading Privacy Principles in Tracking Apps
< Deutsch weiter unten> Yes, I am sitting in my Home Office – as you might these days. Maybe the difference is that I am more or less used to this situation, my family knows how to cope with it and I have the infrastructure to do so. Talk… Continue reading Secure Virtual Coffee – Top of Mind?
We are asked in quite some calls, how we handle the pandemic situation at Microsoft. As a lot of us are used to home office, the change is intense but not that big. Customer events were cancelled (as in a lot of other companies as well) or moved to vir… Continue reading Corona and How We Work From Home
It took a while. I expected GDPR to hit sooner and I expected the authorities to go after non-European companies. I was wrong in both cases. 1&1 – a German telco – just got hit with a significant fine for GDPR violations: € 9.55 M… Continue reading First Significant GDPR Fines
This is a questions I get fairly often. But before I try to answer, let’s take a step back: We know that attackers typically try to compromise user accounts and then move laterally until they find higher-value credentials. The holy grail in this … Continue reading How to leverage “Secure Access Workstations” for the Cloud