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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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Threat Modeling

ForAllSecure

that uses both Star Wars and STRIDE to help engineers under vulnerabilities and threats in software development. Having a common framework around vulnerabilities, around threats , helps us understand the information security landscape better. But in information security, it's not always true.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Hyper-V

ForAllSecure

There's also a lot of stuff that simply isn't well documented. This then becomes fertile ground for cutting edge security research. I'm a senior security researcher working at SafeBreach Labs. Peleg: If you take a look of the windows. So that's complexity. That's obscurity. Peleg: I'm Peleg Hadar.