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Tuesday, in San Francisco, Brad Smith will keynote at the RSA Conference 2016.

In a presentation entitled, “Trust in the Cloud in Tumultuous Times”, Brad will discuss our continued approach to security and privacy and our commitment to investing in security, privacy and control, compliance, and transparency. The address will be streamed live and publicly available.  (See link to the stream below)

For a preview of Brad’s keynote, as well as the 16 other sessions that we are delivering, visit Microsoft’s CyberTrust blog:

• BLOG: Headed to RSA? Here’s your event guide for trust in cloud services
  http://blogs.microsoft.com/cybertrust/2016/02/16/headed-to-rsa-heres-your-event-guide-for-trust-in-cloud-services/.

In preparation for the keynote, our Corporate VP & CISO, Bret Arsenault released information about the progress we have made on the security front, specifically for a mobile-first, cloud-first world.  Read Bret’s post here:

• Progress Report: Enterprise security for our mobile-first, cloud-first world
  http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/02/25/enterprise-security-for-our-mobile-first-cloud-first-world-2/

Date/Time:
March 1, 2016 – 8:50 AM

Location:
South, Live at Esplanade Ballroom

Broadcast:
To view Brad’s keynote go to:

• WEBCAST: Microsoft President & Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith’s Keynote at RSA Conference 2016
  http://www.rsaconference.com/us16/microsoft
• SESSION: Agenda for Brad Smith’s Keynote (Attendees of RSA 2016 can add his keynote to their schedule here)
  https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us16/agenda/sessions/2750/trust-in-the-cloud-in-tumultuous-times

On Brad Smith:

Brad Smith
President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft
Brad Smith is responsible for Microsoft’s corporate, external and legal affairs. Smith plays a key role in leading the company’s work on privacy and security. He is also Microsoft’s Chief Compliance Officer. He has played a leading role within Microsoft and in the IT sector on government surveillance, privacy, intellectual property, immigration and computer science education policy issues. As the senior executive responsible for ensuring Microsoft fulfills its corporate responsibilities, he has helped the company achieve its consistent ranking in the top 2 percent of the S&P 500 for corporate governance scores.