What Spooks Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor

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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Punishment needs to fit the crime

[Viol8]

As well as the software side there needs to be harsher punishment for the borderline aspergers, socially inept idiots who write viruses, trojans and the like. I'm tired of hearing the excuse the they were just "exploring" and "didn't understand the consequences of their actions". Oh gimme a friggin break. You might as well say a burglar was just exploring my house because he had the skills to open it from the outside! Sure , a lot of cybercrime is criminal gangs , but they don't write their own software do they?. Its about time we stopped pussyfooting around with these criminal geeks and started treating them like the felons they are - 10 years inside minium with maybe an extra year for every $10,000 of damage they cause.

"...he wonders what bad news could be coming..."

[hyades1]

"...he wonders what bad news could be coming..."

When the general public will find out about Vista. the number of copies in use will fall so low it won't be worth the time to write malware for.

At that point, who needs a U.S. General Manager/Chief Security Advisor?

That 90%+ of hacked systems are running windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

And that his employer seems to more inclined to monetize security services than actually releasing software that has a security architecture?

Re:The "price of innovation"

[xhrit]

Microsoft's "price of innovation" is the purchase price ov the company who is doing the innovation.