The Obsession with Faster Cybersecurity Incident Reporting

Requirements for reporting cybersecurity incidents to some regulatory or government authority are not new, but there has always been a large amount of inconsistency, globally, in exactly what the requirements are. More ...
Microsoft Teams Controls for Security and Compliance tutorial

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 ...

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 ...

How to leverage “Secure Access Workstations” for the Cloud

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 ...
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Politician’s Reactions on VIP Hack in Germany

I recently complained about the Swiss government and our inability in Switzerland to really drive Cybersecurity forward (Federal Council not deciding again – Switzerland falling behind on Cybersecurity). It was one of ...

Does AI solve it all?

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning hold a lot of promises in security. They will help us address the problems around false positives and detecting anomalies. There is a lot of hope and ...

IoT and Hardware Security – How Bad Will It Get?

It is obviously not new that the security of hardware devices, especially the ones in the IoT space, is not the best. Typically, these devices were not designed with security in mind ...

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v23 available!

I still remember the first one and now we reach version 23… It has a lot of insights into the malware and cybercrime landscape with really actionable recommendations. The Microsoft Security Intelligence ...

Leverage Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defense

We all see a lot of chatter on Artificial Intelligence and the impact on Cyber Defense and anomaly detection. I am not clear yet how far it really takes us. I have ...