MS Security Guru Leaves for Amazon.com 103
Rocky Mann writes "Jesper Johansson, a security guru for Microsoft, is leaving the company to join Amazon.com. Johansson served for some five years as a 'senior security strategist', and is considered one of the world's leading experts on how to protect installations of Windows." From the article: "Johansson is also an advocate for the use of safe-passwords techniques in the enterprise. At the height of the WMF zero-day attacks earlier in 2006, Johansson offered measured advice on the use of unofficial patches and he was constantly on the move, traveling around the world to help customers figure out how to use Microsoft's products securely."
Great Quote (Score:5, Insightful)
Kind of says it all doesn't it.
Why are people who leave microsoft relevent news? (Score:4, Insightful)
Do we get to also see the random people who leave Google and Amazon.com? Mod me down if you like, but I don't really see how this is relevent news.
Re:Why are people who leave microsoft relevent new (Score:3, Insightful)
- you think you've entred some SeriousGeekSanctuary.com??? You suddenly realize "it is a
- feed your kitten and pretend nothing happened, go to sleep and hope it will go away. No pill and you wake up hungry, while
- go with the rest of us and take the
But here it is "IT IS A SLASHDOT, WHADA'YA EXPECT???"
p.s. since you were agreeing with being modded down, your wish come true. I on the other hand agree on being modded up.
Microsoft is under a major crisis. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:MS Security? (Score:3, Insightful)
Now just sit back and watch... (Score:2, Insightful)
Honestly, I don't understand why people we've never heard of defecting from Microsoft is newsworthy anymore.
Re:Microsoft is under a major crisis. (Score:3, Insightful)
I have been using Microsoft products since the 70s. Have they ever had a core or coherent IT strategy?
As far as I can tell, their strategy is purely business-based. It is to make popular products with as little effort on secondary issues (such as security) as possible. They have been focussing on security in recent years not because of any core belief, but because lack of it was starting to seriously threaten sales. All of their products have involved operating system tie-ins since the start. It is a perfectly reasonably sales model (except for when it is used illegally, as with the monopoly issue).
Microsoft has a clear strategy, but if you are looking for it in terms of IT you are looking in the wrong place.
Re:Microsoft is under a major crisis. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Microsoft is under a major crisis. (Score:3, Insightful)