Cybersecurity continues to be a hot topic around the world, particularly as governments develop policies to improve cybersecurity in critical infrastructure. In the U.S., the White House released an Executive Order entitled Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity to drive a concerted effort across...

Posted by: Matt Thomlinson, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing Security This week, I’m traveling in Europe for a series of cybersecurity policy events with Craig Mundie , Senior Advisor to the CEO, Eric Rudder , Chief Technical Strategy Officer, and David Tennenhouse, Corporate Vice President...

Today at RSA China , Jing de Jong-Chen (senior director, Trustworthy Computing) delivered a keynote outlining the next steps in Microsoft’s evolved security, privacy and reliability strategies for cloud and big data. Scott Charney’s Trustworthy Computing Next whitepaper highlights several...

It’s been almost a year since I wrote about the threat landscape in Africa based on data published in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 10 ( SIRv10 ). Using the latest data published in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 12 (SIRv12), we took a fresh look at how the...

In part 1 of this series on the threat landscape in the European Union in the second half of 2011, I examined the threats in the location with the highest malware infection rate, Romania. In this segment of the series I will examine what is happening in the EU member states that have seen the biggest...

This blog post is part of a continuing series on the Trust in Computing Research , a survey we undertook across nine countries and thousands of individuals during a project called TwC Next . During the process, more questions than answers arose in discussions about all of the computing and technology...

As you may have read in the introduction Bruce and I posted to kick off this series, we undertook the Trust in Computing Research after coming up with more questions than answers during a project called TwC Next which marked the 10-year milestone of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing. The questions in the...

I was not at Microsoft ten years ago this week, but the ten year milestone for Trustworthy Computing (TwC) has a lot of significance for me, given that I have spent most of that time working with people here at Microsoft to improve security and privacy for Microsoft products.  I was hired in December...