Microsoft: The $20B Security Business

Microsoft: The $20B Security Business

In late January, Microsoft shared that their Microsoft Security has grown to over $20 Billion (USD) in revenue per year. That’s a massive milestone and puts them far ahead of much of the cybersecurity product market. Even cooler for a nerd like me, they put out...
What if my cloud provider dies?

What if my cloud provider dies?

This weekend has been marred by an ongoing outage at major cloud provider Rackspace that is impacting their entire Hosted Exchange offering. After a full day of being down with lackluster (to say the least) communications, Rackspace came out and admitted that...
What is a certificate anyways?

What is a certificate anyways?

Following up on my last post about certificate-based authentication, I thought I would break down for the masses what a certificate is exactly. This isn’t really meant for the super PKI nerds out there, so I’m going to simplify things plenty. I’m...