Microsoft doubles down on cloud encryption, transparency
July 3, 2014
Grazed from BusinessCloud. Author: Editorial Staff.
Microsoft is “in the midst of a comprehensive engineering effort” to strengthen encryption across its portfolio of cloud services, and increase transparency for customers and governments by allowing more access to the code at the foundation of its services, the company said. According to Matt Thomlinson, vice president of trustworthy computing security at Microsoft the company has successfully taken large strides towards making its services more secure.
Microsoft has added Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption to inbound and outbound emails sent through Outlook.com, and Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) encryption support for sending and receiving mail between email providers, and for the company’s cloud storage service OneDrive…
Forward secrecy uses a different encryption key for every connection, making it more difficult for attackers to decrypt links. “We are in the midst of a comprehensive engineering effort to strengthen encryption across our networks and services,” Thomlinson said. “Over the past six months, we have been working across the industry to further protect and help ensure your mail remains protected. This includes working closely with several international providers throughout our implementation, including, Deutsche Telekom, Yandex and Mail.Ru to test and help ensure that mail stays encrypted in transit to and from each email service.”…
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