Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’
Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. (Microsoft Photo) “Your code will be attacked.”…
Microsoft detected ‘destructive cyberattacks’ against Ukraine hours before Russian invasion
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaking at Seattle’s Town Hall in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft says it began detecting “destructive cyberattacks directed against Ukraine’s digital…
‘Our country is in a cyberwar’: Inside the White House summit with Hadi Partovi of Code.org
Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi. (GeekWire File Photo) President Joe Biden brought together top executives from the nation’s biggest technology, financial services and energy companies this week to…
Microsoft expands cybersecurity skills initiative to 23 more countries as latest attacks show problem
The cybersecurity skills gap is growing around the world, this Microsoft graphic shows. (See interactive version.) Microsoft is expanding its cybersecurity training program globally, seeking to give…
Microsoft aims to boost growing cybersecurity business with new managed services
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is diving deeper into cybersecurity with three new managed services to help companies with their security needs. Microsoft Security…
Q&A with Microsoft manager and author of book that aims to boost diversity in cybersecurity
Angela Marafino. (Rubén Perez Photo) “Reinventing Cybersecurity” is a new anthology written entirely by women and non-binary leaders in cybersecurity that aims to educate, inspire, and help…
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory partners with U.S. Space Force to train cybersecurity workers
Students who participate in CHIRP will spend a week at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) conducting realistic cyber experiments in facilities such as PNNL’s Cybersecurity Operations Center….