Inside the Private Event Where Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Other Rivals Share Security Secrets (geekwire.com) 48
News outlet GeekWire takes us inside Building 99 at Microsoft, where security professionals of the software giant, along with those of Amazon, Google, Netflix, Salesforce, Facebook (and others), companies that fiercely compete with one another, gathered earlier this week to share their learnings for the greater good. From the story: As the afternoon session ended, the organizer from Microsoft, security data wrangler Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, complimented panelist Erik Bloch, the Salesforce security products and program management director, for "really channeling the Ohana spirit," referencing the Hawaiian word for "family," which Salesforce uses to describe its internal culture of looking out for one another. It was almost enough to make a person forget the bitter rivalry between Microsoft and Salesforce. Siva Kumar then gave attendees advice on finding the location of the closing reception. "You can Bing it, Google it, whatever it is," he said, as the audience laughed at the rare concession to Microsoft's longtime competitor.
It was no ordinary gathering at Microsoft, but then again, it's no ordinary time in tech. The Security Data Science Colloquium brought the competitors together to focus on one of the biggest challenges and opportunities in the industry. Machine learning, one of the key ingredients of artificial intelligence, is giving the companies new superpowers to identify and guard against malicious attacks on their increasingly cloud-oriented products and services. The problem is that hackers are using many of the same techniques to take those attacks to a new level. "The challenge is that security is a very asymmetric game," said Dawn Song, a UC Berkeley computer science and engineering professor who attended the event. "Defenders have to defend across the board, and attackers only need to find one hole. So in general, it's easier for attackers to leverage these new techniques." That helps to explain why the competitors are teaming up. In a statement, Erik Bloch, Director Security PM at Salesforce, said, "This is what the infosec and security industry needs more of. Our customers are shared, and so is our responsibility to protect them.
It was no ordinary gathering at Microsoft, but then again, it's no ordinary time in tech. The Security Data Science Colloquium brought the competitors together to focus on one of the biggest challenges and opportunities in the industry. Machine learning, one of the key ingredients of artificial intelligence, is giving the companies new superpowers to identify and guard against malicious attacks on their increasingly cloud-oriented products and services. The problem is that hackers are using many of the same techniques to take those attacks to a new level. "The challenge is that security is a very asymmetric game," said Dawn Song, a UC Berkeley computer science and engineering professor who attended the event. "Defenders have to defend across the board, and attackers only need to find one hole. So in general, it's easier for attackers to leverage these new techniques." That helps to explain why the competitors are teaming up. In a statement, Erik Bloch, Director Security PM at Salesforce, said, "This is what the infosec and security industry needs more of. Our customers are shared, and so is our responsibility to protect them.
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Could not stop it.
Could not find it.
Did not secure their brands.
Passed all that junk US crypto math as strong and fully tested.
Kinda like inside the ... (Score:2)
Sara Huckabee secret staff meetings and stuff.
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And the fucking news at 11 is a reveal of the whole goddam secret meeting.
Completely Normal for Engineers to talk (Score:2)
I work on some standards bodies where engineers from competing companies are generally pretty good at reaching consensus. (As long as their product managers are not there.) Remember too, that these people move between companies. So I a sure it was very friendly.
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Nobody from the NSA? (Score:2)
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They did not notice the data moving out all day, every day?
They got told it was FBI? DEA? and all ok?
They did not notice the NSA deep in their networks and the junk crypto their brand was giving away/selling?
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Youâ(TM)re drastically overestimating the NSAâ(TM)s talent/capabilities. I work in InfoSec,
Who else has destroyed their target's hardware across an air-gapped divide? EternalBlue shows that the NSA has a lot of hacking skill at their command. They also have the ability to gain physical access if they really need to.
PRISM (Score:2)
any other buzzwords (Score:2)
Machine learning, one of the key ingredients of artificial intelligence, is giving the companies new superpowers to identify and guard against malicious attacks on their increasingly cloud-oriented products and services.
And was their results-oriented work flow kept track of with block-chain?
Collaboration (Score:2)
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It's just a public relations exercise
The biggest challenges in security? (Score:2)