Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center

Bret Arsenault, chief information security officer for Microsoft:

To support a comprehensive, cross company approach to security, Microsoft invests more than a billion dollars in security research and development, every year. Deepening this commitment, we announced plans to enhance our protection of customer data with a new Cyber Defense Operations Center. This state-of-the-art facility brings together security response experts from across the company to help protect, detect and respond to threats in real-time. Staffed with dedicated teams 24×7, the center has direct access to thousands of security professionals, data analysts, engineers, developers, program managers, and operations specialists throughout Microsoft to ensure rapid response and resolution to security threats. Informed by decades of experience working with the industry to fight threats on a global scale, the center maintains critical connections with industry security partners, governments and enterprise customers, and engages Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit when law enforcement needs arise.

At first I just wanted to crack a joke about this sounding very Bond-ian. But here’s a serious question: why doesn’t Apple have a senior executive with this purview?

★ Tuesday, 17 November 2015