By Jeff Jones , director, Trustworthy Computing Today in Birmingham, England, Adrienne Hall, general manager of Trustworthy Computing, received one of three Professional Security Magazine’s Women in Security awards for her leadership and significant contributions to the security industry...

Posted by Adrienne Hall , general manager, Trustworthy Computing Today Microsoft releases volume 14 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report , which provides trends and insights on security vulnerabilities, exploit activity, malware and potentially unwanted software, spam, phishing, malicious...

By Adrienne Hall , general manager, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Many organizations and governments around the world struggle to quantify the value of making security investments in an environment of increasingly complex business models, fast-moving technology shifts and ever-more sophisticated...

By Jeff Jones , director, Trustworthy Computing It's been an exciting week here at RSA, attending sessions and catching up with fellow security colleagues over the past few days. Today at RSA, Mike Reavey, senior director Trustworthy Computing, and Elia Florio, software security engineer, Microsoft presented...

By Paul Nicholas , senior director Security, Trustworthy Computing Have you ever wondered what factors contribute to how well a country or region is addressing cybersecurity issues? Today, I have the pleasure of presenting alongside my colleague, Kevin Sullivan at George Washington University’s...

Posted by Richard Saunders , director, Trustworthy Computing Last week I was in London for RSA Europe . As ever, there was a rich exchange of opinion on security best practices and solutions reinforcing, if ever we could forget, cyber security as a topic with universal relevance. In his opening keynote...

Posted by Adrienne Hall , general manager, Trustworthy Computing I just got off the stage at RSA Europe in London where I delivered a keynote during which I announced the release of our bi-annual Security Intelligence Report (SIRv13) and a new free Cloud Security Readiness Tool . If you’ve ever...

Posted by: Adrienne Hall , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing Today I’m heading off to Asia. Over the next few weeks I’m looking forward to connecting with customers, industry influentials following cloud computing, reporters and several of my colleagues at Microsoft. These conversations...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Most of the conversations I have about cloud computing focus on the role of cloud providers to manage the security of the services they provide to their customers. It seems like implementing security controls, providing visibility into those controls...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Twice a year we produce the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) – an incredibly detailed view into the threat landscape and threat trends in 100+ countries around the world. One piece of data that tends to catch people’s attention...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing When Information Technology departments evaluate potential uses of cloud computing for their organization, many of them quickly realize they no longer have the near omniscient visibility into the operations environment they have when hosting...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Communications One of the most interesting aspects of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report is data on how regional malware infection rates change over time. This data helps us and our customers understand the tactics and strategies that...