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Rob Lefferts
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Threat Protection
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Delivering security innovation that puts Microsoft’s experience to work for you 

Cybersecurity is the central challenge of our digital age. Without it, everything from our personal email accounts and privacy to the way we do business, and all types of critical infrastructure, are under threat. As attackers evolve, staying ahead of these threats is getting harder. Microsoft can help. We focus on three areas: running security operations that work for you, building enterprise-class technology, and driving partnerships for a heterogeneous world. We can tip the scales in favor of the good guys and make the world a safer place.

From the ground up to the cloud: Microsoft’s Intelligent Security supporting CISOs’ cloud transformation 

It’s no secret that Microsoft has embraced the cloud in a big way—from enterprise solutions like Microsoft Azure to Office 365 and Windows. But a recent research report by Forrester focuses on an equally important shift in our approach to security—integrating workforce and cloud security in ways that make them much easier for enterprise IT […]

Man sitting on an indoor bench in front of windows working on a laptop with a security key fob or USB drive next to him on the bench.
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Tapping the intelligent cloud to make security better and easier 

There has been a distinct shift in my conversations with customers over the last year. Most have gone from asking ‘can we still keep our assets secure as we adopt cloud services?,’ to declaring, ‘we are adopting cloud services in order to improve our security posture.’ The driving factor is generally a realization that a […]

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Partnering with the AV ecosystem to protect our Windows 10 customers 

On Friday May 12th, and for several days afterwards, more than a quarter-million computers around the world fell victim to the ransomware known as WannaCrypt or WannaCry. As that recent event has shown, malicious actors bring nearly boundless time and skill to commit cybercrime that can cause harm to millions of people. That is why […]

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Windows 10 Creators Update provides next-gen ransomware protection 

Multiple high-profile incidents have demonstrated that ransomware can have catastrophic effects on all of us. From personally losing access to your own digital property, to being impacted because critical infrastructure or health care services are unexpectedly unavailable for extended periods of time, destructive attacks have grown in severity and scale on all platforms – including […]