In another sign of Microsoft’s renewed seriousness about product safety, Nadella now devotes an hour during regular Friday leadership meetings to assessing and troubleshooting the security initiative, Bell said. Nadella specifically asked that updates focus on pain points that still need to be addressed. — Reuters
Microsoft Corp, aiming to shore up cybersecurity after a series of damning failures, has hired new executives from places like the US government and is holding weekly meetings with its most senior executives to advance a companywide initiative to make its software more resilient.
Timothy Langan, a 26-year FBI veteran, has been hired as deputy chief information security officer for government, while Shawn Bowen, a past CISO for the United States Marine Corps Intelligence, will take a deputy CISO role for gaming. Microsoft has also given such longtime executives as Azure chief technology officer Mark Russinovich and cybersecurity Vice President John Lambert new deputy CISO duties, part of a group of 13 executives with that title.
