Zero Trust: Identity at the Core
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 ...
Why Zero Trust reflects today’s challenges
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 ...
Today’s Court Ruling on Data Privacy in EU
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: ...
Zero Trust in the IoT/OT Space
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 ...
Hackers don’t break in – they log in
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 ...
Privacy Principles in Tracking Apps
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 ...
Secure Working from Home – Some Ideas and Guidance
There is plenty of information out there how to secure a “Home Office” environment in these days and I do not want this to be another one. However, I tried to compile ...
Secure Virtual Coffee – Top of Mind?
< 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, ...
Corona and How We Work From Home
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 ...
First Significant GDPR Fines
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 – ...
