Microsoft’s Vision of Cloud Security

April 22, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Datamation.  Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

When it comes to the cloud, transparency and control are the keys to security. That’s the message coming from Scott Charney, Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing, during a keynote at the RSA security conference here.  "As people move to the cloud, how much transparency do they get into what is going on?" Charney remarked during his keynote.

Charney said that in 2004 Microsoft started to implement its security software development lifecycle. The basic ideas was to have security in design, security by default and security in deployment. Charney said that Microsoft changed the way it updated systems and went to a regular patching cycle that aimed to help improve things…

One of the things that has changed since 2004 is that cyber attacks have become increasingly destructive. Charney said that in the past when data was stolen it didn’t always have an immediate impact…

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