{"id":12502,"date":"2017-02-14T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/how_microsoft_just_scared_the_it_community_to_death.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:30:33","slug":"how-microsoft-just-scared-the-it-community-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/how-microsoft-just-scared-the-it-community-to-death.html","title":{"rendered":"How Microsoft Just Scared the IT Community to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/brad-smith-microsoft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2017\/02\/brad-smith-microsoft-thumb-500x500-15598.jpg\" alt=\"brad-smith-microsoft.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bradsmi?authType=NAME_SEARCH&#038;authToken=bcNP&#038;locale=en_US&#038;trk=tyah&#038;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A23763059%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1487122458358%2Ctas%3ABrad%20Smith\"><br \/>Brad Smith<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a title=\"Learn more about this title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/title\/president-and-chief-legal-officer?trk=mprofile_title\">President and Chief Legal Officer<\/a>&nbsp;at Microsoft spoke recently at a conference and wrote about the need for a Digital Geneva Convention <span>which would do a number of things. For example, it would eliminate targeting of tech companies, assist the private sector in dealing with attacks and restrain cyber-weapon development<\/span>.&nbsp;&ldquo;Conflicts between nations are no longer confined to the ground, sea and air, as cyberspace has become a potential new and global battleground,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/14\/microsoft-calls-for-establishment-of-a-digital-geneva-convention\/\">he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company went on to say it spends a tremendous amount on cybersecurity but it isn&#8217;t enough&#8230; We need to do more, a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Why should this scare us to death? Because Microsoft owns the operating system and many of the applications we use. They make the most-hacked computers in the world (perhaps not including IoT devices but generally, they aren&#8217;t as important) and they still aren&#8217;t able to protect us from &#8220;evil-doers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The point is, we are all in a lot of trouble &#8211; hacks will become more commonplace and having an effective strategy ahead-of-time is the only way to mitigate risk. For more, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apextechservices.com\/topics\/articles\/429641-microsofts-digital-geneva-convention-idea-shows-how-vulnerable.htm\">complete thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Smith, the&nbsp;President and Chief Legal Officer&nbsp;at Microsoft spoke recently at a conference and wrote about the need for a Digital Geneva Convention which would do a number of things. For example, it would eliminate targeting of tech companies, assist the private sector in dealing with attacks and restrain cyber-weapon development.&nbsp;&ldquo;Conflicts between nations are no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,187,156,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18409,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions\/18409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}