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Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Theresa Payton, a cyber security expert on America Now News Magazine who manages Fortalice®, LLC , a security consulting company. Ms. Payton was chief information officer at the White House from May 2006 to September 2008. According to the Federal...

Posted by Samantha Doerr Public Affairs Manager, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit In order to effectively solve difficult societal problems, we must first understand them. With the belief that research can open the door to effective interventions in the fight against modern day slavery, in December the...

Posted by Jeff Jones Director, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Computing is now an essential part of our everyday lives. The Internet today reaches a global population of more than two billion people – providing a range of critical services to more citizens around the world than ever before...

Posted by Tim Rains Director, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Today, we released the latest volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) containing a large body of new data and analysis on the threat landscape. This volume of the SIR includes: · Latest industry vulnerability...

Posted by Paul Nicholas Senior Director, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Last week, Scott Charney testified at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs . The hearing was about the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which is Congress’s first comprehensive legislation...

Posted by Brendon Lynch Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft Accountability has been a globally recognized principle of privacy and data protection for more than three decades. But in the past few years, an important effort has been under way to clearly delineate what accountability—and the related...

Posted by Ronald Zink Chief Operating Officer, European Union Affairs, Microsoft A big question for governments and business at the moment, and indeed for users of the Internet all over the world, is how personal data – a person’s identity, personal materials, financial or sensitive information...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Rich Mogull, founder of Securosis LLC, an independent security consulting firm. Prior to founding Securosis, Rich was a leading analyst at Gartner. He has 12 total years of experience as a security analyst. Depending on your age, you might remember when...

Posted by Brendon Lynch Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft Privacy is a top priority for many users of cloud computing, so Microsoft today is releasing a white paper that details many of the specific data protection policies, procedures and tools that have been integrated into Office 365, our newest...

Posted by Mike Hintze Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Congress’ interest in privacy continued Wednesday at a hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. I appreciated the opportunity to share with the committee Microsoft’s...

Posted by Matt Thomlinson General Manager, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Today, I spoke at NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) during the Information Assurance Symposium 2011 on cybersecurity. I started by teeing up two important questions: · What techniques are attackers using...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Blog Since successfully taking down the Rustock botnet on March 16 th , Microsoft has continued to analyze the threat, investigate leads on the operations and owners of the botnet and work with Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and Internet...

Posted by Scott Charney Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Cybersecurity and the overall health of the Internet has become a key concern for governments, enterprises and computer users. As more people, computers and devices come online (there are approximately 2 billion...

Posted by Vinny Gullotto General Manager, Microsoft Malware Protection Center Today’s release of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report volume 10 is our most comprehensive global threat report to date, with in-depth regional threat intelligence for 117 countries from more than 600 million...

Posted by Jacqueline Beauchere Director, Trustworthy Computing Communications, Microsoft A new study released by the National Cyber Security Alliance ( NCSA ) and sponsored by Microsoft, shows that U.S. schools are ill-equipped to teach children the fundamentals of 21st Century “Digital Citizenship...

Posted by Richard Boscovich Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit Today, the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice announced a legal and technical operation to take down the Coreflood botnet, using a civil suit for a temporary restraining order against the operators of the botnet and criminal...

Posted by Mike Hintze Associate General Counsel, Legal & Corporate Affairs Today, we submitted comments on the Federal Trade Commission’s preliminary staff report on consumer privacy, “ Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers...

Posted by Scott Charney Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing To help address growing concerns regarding Internet security and privacy, I recently published a paper outlining an approach to addressing botnets and malware that threaten consumer devices connected to the Internet entitled Collective...

By Dr. Ann Cavoukian Editor’s Note: Because tomorrow is Data Privacy Day , we are marking the occasion by profiling Microsoft’s Chief Privacy Officer and digging deeper into the privacy implications of location-based services . We’ve also asked Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the Information...

Posted by Brendon Lynch Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft Technologies and services that track, analyze and share individuals’ movements have proliferated in recent years. With more and more people connecting to the Internet through mobile devices, and with location based services surging in...

Posted by Brad Smith Senior Vice President and General Counsel Today, I have the good fortune to be in Paris, a city my family and I previously lived in for three years, to discuss the enormous potential of cloud computing for Europe and countries around the world. Cloud computing continues to...

Posted by Peter Cullen Chief Privacy Strategist Any discussion of online privacy today can quickly become polarized and shed more heat than light. It is clear that privacy remains a key topic and also clear the discussion centers on finding the right balance of investments by both companies and the...

Posted by Bill Harmon Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit As the new associate general counsel of Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, I’m excited about the opportunities we have to make the Internet a safer place for everyone, whether you own an online business, advertise...

Posted by Pamela Passman Corporate Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs Beijing is in many respects an ancient city, but this week we were privileged to help organize an event that brought US and Chinese participants together for a look at the future: the Fourth U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum...

Posted by Peter Cullen Chief Privacy Strategist This week, more than 400 policymakers, privacy advocates and industry representatives will be converging in Israel for the 32nd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners . The conference has commenced this morning in Jerusalem...