Microsoft appoints new security boss

Date:
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:29:29 +0000

Description:
Former AWS veteran Charlie Bell set to be in charge of overseeing Microsofts security initiatives.

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Former Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) executive Charlie Bell will reportedly
take charge of a new engineering organization inside Microsoft that will oversee security, compliance, identity and management.

A long-time AWS veteran, Bell joined Microsoft last month as a corporate vice president, though his exact responsibilities werent announced.

We all want a world where safety is an invariant, something that is always true, and we can constantly prove we have...I believe Microsoft is the only company in a position to deliver this, and I couldnt be more excited to work with this talented team to make the world safer for every person and organization on the planet, Bell wrote on LinkedIn. These are the best VPN services for Windows 10 Also take a look at these best alternatives to Microsoft Office And heres a list of the best online collaboration tools

According to CNBC , Bell was one of the candidates to head AWS following Andy Jassy 's departure to take over as CEO of Amazon following Jeff Bezos retirement . Still negotiating

ZDNet has learnt that as part of his new role, Bell will be put in charge of several teams from across Microsoft to shore up the companys cybersecurity posture, and will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Reportedly, however, the two companies are still negotiating over Bells move to the Redmond-based software giant.

"We believe Charlie Bell's new role can help advance cybersecurity for the country and the tech sector as a whole, and we are committed to continuing
our constructive discussions with Amazon. We're sensitive to the importance
of working through these issues together, as we've done when five recent Microsoft executives moved across town to work for Amazon," Frank Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Communications at Microsoft told ZDNet . Weve
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Via ZDNet



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