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>> Yeah. You're supposed to say watermelon, watermelon.
Welcome to Microsoft Unboxed.
Yeah, let's keep talking because I
think we're more important. Yeah.
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My name is Sonia Dara and I'm joined by one of
my friends and co-host, Colleen O'Brien.
>> Hello world.
>> Every week, we're going to share stories
from Microsoft about great technology,
and we're going to talk about the great people
behind that technology.
Today's theme is security.
>> We're going to make it fun.
>> It's got to be fun.
>> Let's go. But before we get to that,
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Hit that button right down there, and let's get rolling.
>> Security blankets and gun.
>> Think more like a year
round security blanket might be something more like quesadilla.
>> Like quesadilla, the food.
>> Yeah. I'm not like snuggling up under quesadilla.
>> I've seen blankets though that looked like burritos.
They look like, and so you snuggle in
a burrito but you mean legitimately the food.
>> Yeah.
>> I love quesadilla.
>> I literally like to eat a quesadilla.
>> This is so weird.
>> All right. Well, I'll ask you a different question then,
so you don't get embarrassed here.
>> Nothing can beat quesadilla,
so it's a lose-loose.
>> What's your favorite bank heist movie?
>> I liked The Italian Job.
>> What did you like about it?
>> Key characters and players,
and I liked Charliez Theron.
She was the smart one who knew how to crack into a safe,
and then there was Mini Coopers, which I always wanted.
When it came out, my dad was like, "Sonia,
you won't fit into one why are you doing it finally ".
Like my head would have had to stick
out like Tom Phillips. Sorry, excuse me.
>> I wait for a moment where you're going to
take a breath, to interject me.
You're like, I'm going to say this now instead.
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>> You love talking about Cloud a lot.
>> You literary can't shut us up about it.
>> We're always talking about it because it's that important.
We are responsible for housing a lot of
storage on behalf of multiple companies and governments.
Because we are housing all this data,
a lot of people are actually trying to attack us, to get the data.
Cloud computing operations detects 1.5
million attacks and attempts a day.
>> 1.5 million?
>> Yeah. Our system is so intelligent,
that it's not just fending off these attacks,
it's also learning at the same time and feeding it
into our companies intelligence security craft.
Imagine there's one type of phishing attack that happens
on one set of Cloud platform services.
We'll apply whatever we've learned to defend
that attack and apply it across all of our services.
>> Effectively scaling your insight.
>> Exactly. Every time someone tries attacking us,
we're actually getting smarter.
A lot of people might think that keeping
their data on a hard drive,
physically, is the best way because they know where it is,
but then each individual is
responsible for defending and protecting their data as
opposed to having Microsoft be that sole job
of protecting your data across multiple areas.
Right? So you might have multiple hard drives
and multiple systems that you're doing.
Whether it's your payroll sitting over here on these server,
and you have anything about
Social Security numbers for your employees there.
We would protect it,
plus you having to see
all this endpoints and trying to protect it.
The other great thing is we've had built
our Cloud infrastructure from the ground
up with modern security and privacy built in.
>> The bones of our solution.
>> Yeah. We wouldn't exist without it.
Microsoft scans 400 billion e-mails
for malware and phishing scams each month,
and we invest over a billion dollars every year in Cloud security.
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>>So we mean business.
We have over 3500 security engineers dedicated to this.
Fine tuning approaches, learning from cyber attacks,
learning from some of these that were
false negatives and false positives.
What gets flagged out of a 1000 attacks,
say 9999 of them are falsely positive,
but one is, and then the other way around,
where it's falsely negative, and
some things actually come through.
We learn a lot from that,
and what qualified that to actually get through our system.
>> So those are fairly small numbers,
but the stakes are really high.
>> Especially for a false negatives.
One thing that Microsoft wanted to try to land,
especially outside of just corporations but for the governments,
is that we need to establish a standard for international conduct,
and how we're thinking about protecting
people's privacy when it comes to government relations.
So we know that the technology
around security and privacy is advancing very quickly,
but almost faster than public policy.
So our president, Brad Smith
proposed the first ever Digital Geneva Convention,
where we can actually establish this standards
to protect people's privacy and data.
>> I don't have to worry about all of
my family photos getting stolen.
>> Or your cat photos maybe.
>> I'm so allergic to cats.
I don't even like to joke about having cat photos.
Well, you mentioned some of the teams who are
working on security here at Microsoft,
and I'm actually going to tell a story about one specific team.
They are the Red Team.
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>> Yes. Red team. I remember this. Cool.
>>Cool. So the Red Team is
an elite Microsoft hacker team that is keeping Windows PCs safe.
So Windows still boast nearly 90 percent of
market share for a laptop and desktop computers worldwide.
So it's really important that we're keeping all of this PCs safe.
>> Yeah, and Surfaces.
>> David Weston is
a partner group manager focused on security here at Microsoft.
He was a little frustrated with our approach to security.
>> Sounds like he was frustrated.
>> Typically, they were waiting for a big attack to happen,
and then the team would spend time trying to fix it.
>> Reactively.
>> Exactly.
>> Okay, and he wanted to get proactive.
>> That is correct.
>> Yes. I like his style.
>> So David gets aggressive,
and put together a team that's going to focus on
hacking Windows every single day.
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>> That's cool.
>> That's correct. This team is really
comprised of amazing and elite hackers.
One of whom jail-broke Nintendo handhelds,
in a former life.
Another, who can claim more than one zero day exploit.
All of these people are world class hackers.
They're working on everything from browser security
to tackling kernel and virtualization issues.
Some of them are actually working on things that are
so sensitive that I can't tell you about them.
>> Show me a little.
>> No. No. Imagine if
your job was to come in every day and break stuff.
It sort of reminds me of when
you did a little demo over at building one.
>> When I literally broke building one. It was awesome.
>> One of the most interesting things about them is that
they time themselves on their hacks,
and that gives them an objective performance indicator.
They then put a price tag on that amount of time.
Their goal is to drive that number up.
They want to make hacking Windows as costly as possible,
to dissuade any potential hackers from wanting to do it.
So when Western, the leader of this team is
particularly impressed with a hack that his team has performed,
he distributes computer shaped trophies. Isn't that nice?
>> That's nice. That's so good.
>> Yes. I want to go to one of their award ceremonies.
>> Great hack.
>> Because Windows is 90 percent of
laptop and desktop computers worldwide,
I'm feeling a little safer here,
with the red team on our team.
>> Me too. Good job Red Team. Keep them safe.
>> We'll give you a computer trophy.
>> I can give you two thumbs up right now.
>> How about four.
>> Speaking of breaking into things,
we're going to break into our box for outside the box.
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Would you rather be invisible or read minds?
>> Oh my gosh. I would rather be invisible.
Can you imagine how awful it would be to read everyone's mind.
>> I would only want to read minds if I could
communicate back with them, like Professor X.
>> Am I invisible all the time?
>> I don't know. You can qualify however you want.
>> Okay. I have the ability to become invisible.
>> Yes.
>> Yes. I think that's what I want.
Have you ever met a celebrity?
>> Yes.
>> Question answered.
>> The coolest run-in with celebrities was at Comic-Con.
We got to go for this party,
and we're thinking it was just the other sponsors who are there.
No, it was the cast of Game of Thrones,
the cast of Walking Dead.
>> What?
>> Yeah. The internet S.W.AT Team was there.
We had so much fun.
I was standing in line to get a drink,
and I feel someone very tall,
and big behind me, and I turned around,
and it's The Hound from Game of Thrones, and I'm like,
"oh my goodness," and he's like,"
hello," and he is throwing his hand in for the shot.
He takes the shot and goes, "this
is disgusting." I was like, "Yeah.
It's sweet, it's girly in here" and he was like,
"I need a manly drink."
You know what's manly, he reaches in to his shirt,
pulls out a tuft of chest hair,
holds them right in my face and goes,
"this is manly," and then walks away,
and I was just left there like what's just happened.
Sorry, I went way over there for a second.
>> That's going to wrap this show forever.
>> Thanks for joining us,
for this week's episode.
If you have any great question to add to the box,
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