May 8, 2024 at 09:05AM
Microsoft is making organizational changes and holding senior leadership directly accountable for cybersecurity, with plans to bolster security across its products and services. The EVP of security announced measures to instill accountability, elevate security governance, and implement specific security goals under the Secure Future Initiative. These efforts aim to enhance cybersecurity practices and protect against emerging threats.
Based on the meeting notes, the key points are:
– Microsoft will hold senior leadership accountable for cybersecurity and make organizational changes to bolster security across its products and services.
– The company’s EVP of security, Charlie Bell, announced plans to instill accountability by linking part of the company’s Senior Leadership Team’s compensation to progress in meeting security plans and milestones.
– Major steps will be taken to elevate security governance, including organizational changes, additional oversight, controls, and reporting.
– Measures include adding a deputy CISO to each product team, having the company’s threat intelligence team report directly to the enterprise CISO, and having engineering teams work together on security.
– Microsoft’s efforts aim to ensure products and platforms are secure by design, secure by default, and secure during operations, with six broad pillars guiding the requirements for meeting these goals.
– The company announced an enterprisewide Secure Future Initiative (SFI) in November 2023 to implement measures for protecting against emerging threats, including harnessing automation, AI, and threat modeling, as well as integrating more secure default settings across its product portfolio.
– Microsoft will implement a series of measures to meet the goals of protecting identities and secrets, protecting tenants and production systems in the cloud, protecting networks, protecting engineering systems, monitoring and detecting threats, and accelerating response and remediation.
– Tom Corn, chief product officer at Ontinue, views the scope of Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative as impressive, noting that Microsoft’s position as a dominant security and infrastructure player puts them in a unique position to make this simple to operationalize.
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