"Blue Hat" summit meant to reveal ways of the other side
REDMOND, Wash.–The random chatter of several hundred Microsoft engineers filled the cavernous executive briefing center recently at the company’s sprawling campus outside Seattle.
…this is exceptionally exciting for me. For a long time now, I’ve thought that once we better understood the issues we have with security, that we should build a community of individuals that WANT to help us plug the holes and design better products.
Historically, this has been a complete quid-pro-quo: We create the products with the ‘fame’; they find the security flaws and help us fix them; we in turn recognize them and they get the ‘fame’, ‘spotlight’ and most importantly, the credibility of being a recognized security sleuth.
Now, with communities of individuals that are working on this through Blue Hat, we’re able to collectively work faster and more intensely instead of as ‘one offs’ of security flaws here and there. The hacker community can collectively find holes much faster than individual efforts… except now, we’re gonna create a forum for them to do so.
Doesn’t it make sense to find & secure as much as you can instead of dribbling out 2 patches here, 4 patches there?
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