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Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In 'Holistic' Security Strategy (darkreading.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the throw-money-at-it-until-it-goes-away dept.

ancientribe writes: Microsoft has invested $1 billion over the past year in security and doubled its number of security executives, according to company's CISO Bret Arsenault. In an address today (webcast), CEO Satya Nadella officially announced the launch of a new managed security services group and a new cyber defense operations center — all part of its new strategy of holistic and integrated security across its products and services. Microsoft execs rarely detail the company's strategy so publicly, so that in itself underlines how security is a major element in its strategy.

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  1. Phone calls from MS by fhage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi! I'm an Executive at the Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center, and we've detected a problem with your internet....

  2. Doubling the number of executives 1/x^2 by exabrial · · Score: 5, Funny

    Applying the inverse square law... means 1/4 of the productivity.

  3. We're at "holistic" by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wake me when we get to crystal healing.

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  4. Anything's better than the prior approach ... by tlambert · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anything's better than the prior approach, which was homeopathic.

  5. Re: One set to create the problem, one set to solv by holostarr · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes they have! Microsoft produces very polished and secure products with incredibly fast and consistent response to bugs and security issues for such complex array of software they offer. People on Slashdot with limited technical background simply like to rag on Microsoft with the mentality that Linux rocks/Microsoft sucks.