Subj : Microsoft adds more security chiefs following recent cyberattacks
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri May 03 2024 18:15:05

Microsoft adds more security chiefs following recent cyberattacks

Date:
Fri, 03 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Description:
The company is tightening up on cybersecurity after being called out by the 
US government.

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Microsoft has just unveiled the next step in its major cybersecurity 
overhaul, and that is to hire security executives for different product 
groups. 

Following a string of major cyberattacks, and the subsequent US government 
call to arms of sorts, Microsoft decided to completely revamp its 
cybersecurity practices, and put security above all else, as CEO Satya 
Nadella recently put it. 

One major milestone in that endeavor is the hiring of additional security 
chiefs to product groups, Bloomberg reports. While the identities of the new 
officials are yet to be released, we do know a couple of names. Russians and 
the Chinese 

Ann Johnson, for example, whos been a Microsoft security executive for almost 
a decade now, has been named deputy CISO for consumer outreach and regulated 
industries. In an email to the publication, Microsoft said Johnson will work 
on customer engagement and communication about Microsofts own security. 
Johnson will report to Igor Tsyganskiy, the companys global CISO since 
December last year. 

Roughly a year ago, news broke that APT29, a known Russian state-sponsored 
threat actor, compromised Microsoft corporate email accounts, and through 
those breached accounts of officials working in several US federal agencies. 
Midnight Blizzards successful compromise of Microsoft corporate email 
accounts and the exfiltration of correspondence between agencies and 
Microsoft presents a grave and unacceptable risk to agencies, CISA said at 
the time. 

A few months later, Chinese hackers were deemed responsible for stealing one 
of Microsofts access tools and using it to infiltrate email accounts of US 
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and 
hundreds more. 

All this, and more, led the US Cyber Safety Review Board to issue a report 
earlier this month, criticizing Microsofts shambolic cybersecurity. 

In the meantime, Microsoft promised to do better, by setting up the Secure 
Future initiative which Bloomberg described as the most significant security 
plan since co-founder Bill Gates halted Windows development in 2002 and 
ordered engineers to prioritize product safety over new features. However, 
the company is still being criticized for not doing enough. More from 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-adds-more-security-chiefs-fol
lowing-recent-cyberattacks


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