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What Spooks Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-the-darkness-looks-back dept.

alphadogg writes "Microsoft's U.S. general manager/chief security advisor for its National Security Team, Bret Arsenault, thinks like a true security professional. In every bit of good news, he wonders what bad news could be coming. Application security, virtualization security and the fact that over half of computer attacks seen by Microsoft come from the .edu domain are just some of the things keeping him up at night."

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  1. Re:Punishment needs to fit the crime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's quite the straw man... and it seems to be singing something...

    *listens in*

    "If I only had a brain..."

  2. What Spooks Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor ? by ionix5891 · · Score: 2, Funny

    i presume same things that spooks every other network admin

    *rooted linux boxes, yes these are dangerous in wrong hands :(
    *Russian business network
    *chineese spammers
    *prolonged multi gbit DDOS

  3. Q&A by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Question: What do you think about Microsoft's U.S. general manager/chief security advisor?
    Answer: I think it would be a good idea.

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    8 of 13 people found this answer helpful. Did you?
  4. Re:students sharpening their pens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    unless you're at MIT chances are you're starved for bandwidth and have to sleep during the day and game all night to get any decent pings. You don't get very good grades, do you?
  5. What Spooks Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor by somethingwicked · · Score: 5, Funny

    What Spooks Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor?

    Flying chairs?

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    ---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---

  6. Coolest name for a security expert, EVER. by mcrbids · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean seriously.... Bret Arsenault?

    Did he legally change his name after he got hired? Other cool pseudo-names: Ima Baadash, Tod Newclierre, or John Wepunce.

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    I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
  7. Re:Poor guy by z0idberg · · Score: 4, Funny

    You "years" key is broken.

  8. Re:Poor guy by iroc409 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your 'R' key is broken. =) I keed I keed!

  9. Re:students sharpening their pens by ozmanjusri · · Score: 2, Funny
    People who root boxes want upstream, so they can scan for more boxes to hack, ddos things or distribute malware. They typically have very little need for downstream bandwidth

    There's a lot of home users out there running non-admined MS boxes.

    never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of pipes...

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    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."