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I’m a security person. If you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: check your priorities and your risk appetite per your ISMS

2024-05-05 12:51:16+00:00

Nadella’s Microsoft approach is leaning the right ways and is great copy for media, but it’s bland and meaningless when stripped from the context of a proper information security management system.

What he means is that stuff ought to be secure by default and it’s time for Microsoft to let go of previously higher goals – such as backwards compatibility, as per his provided examples – but pursuit of security to the exclusion of all risk leads to unhealthy stagnation, and his words are open to that interpretation.

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