A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room

Josh Fink writes "C|Net has an interesting piece about Microsoft's Security War Room, or rather, shall I say rooms. This room came about when Microsoft's security chief, Mike Nash, had issues finding open conference rooms. The response; a dedicated room only for him and his staff to handle emergencies. "And while he was at it, why not have two? That way, the folks working on fixing a security crisis could have a little breathing room from those drafting the public and customer communications around the issue. ""

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reality and spin rooms.

[twitter]

The two shall never meet.

It's shocking they never had a dedicated fix team until now. Should have guessed it.

Truth also banned .

[Erris]

The front page still has a former M$ employee talking about bugs being denied and going unfixed for months and years. The spin room is a lie room. It's not surprising they hate GNU/Linux, free software and anything else that allows users to talk to each other openly.

The real war room at Microsoft

[gubachwa]

Judging from all the security holes in Microsoft products, I suspect this is more representative of the war room at Microsoft.

Disappointing room

[jhRisk]

I have to admit my bubble was burst a little bit at how clearly unimpressive the room looked in those photos. The fact it took until now for them to get dedicated meeting space is laughable but should be of little surprise to us (a jab both at the importance they place on security and an office space joke for those of us who know how solid gold real-estate meeting rooms can become.) However, now that they've done so why is it that archaic?

Picture #4 is clearly their engineering conference room as defined in the article and without getting into specifics I expected more.

P.S. The fact it's

often standing-room-only in a real crisis speaks to how cheap they went IMHO and little about chair throwing since "he" would never show up to one of these ;) I wonder if they have sales-dedicated and presentation rooms (probably) and what they look like.... hmmmm.

Moves by competitors

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard both Lunix and OSX were going to try chasing MS's tail lights on this and having their own dedicated security conference rooms, but they decided to just stick with security through obscurity.

And besides, there is no "Lunix HQ" anyway, and Apple is too busy whipping up shiny new psychodelic backgrounds for their Leoptard patch (due out sometime in the next three years, since they still won't admit anything is wrong with it).