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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. He absorbed the 477-page technical tome in one weekend and returned to Redmond ready to change how Microsoft made software — prioritizing security and reliability over new features.

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