In Brief: Microsoft Dumps Security Evangelist
Mon, 05/11/2009 - 13:40
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Microsoft's senior security strategist, Steve Riley, has been made redundant.
After more than 10 years working for Microsoft, Riley fell the victim to a restructuring program last Tuesday. "As a part of Microsoft’s second round of restructuring, my position was eliminated yesterday and my employment with Microsoft has ended," Riley wrote on his blog. "I'm certainly not disappearing... I'll remain involved in the security industry."
Tue, 05/12/2009 - 09:40
#2
Bummer, but no suprise!
I did MS architecture work forever, well it felt like it anyway, before moving to security, and always made a point of spending some time with Steve & Jesper whenever they were in Australia (and London before that) and was amazed at how candid they were about the shortcomings of their products. Their realistic attitudes, especially about how it was the software companies responsibility to make it easier for 'dumb average user' to stay safe without 200 tucked away option settings went totally against the marketing guys who really run MS.
Jesper jumped ship a year or two ago (to Amazon I believe), and I'm amazed the dancing monkey didn't stick his size 12's up Steves non-compliant arse shortly afterward.
Fri, 05/15/2009 - 12:22
#3
Disappointing really
Guess his travel costs and so forth would have been high, however it's disappointing.
OK, I did not always agree with everything that he said, but I did like his no BS approach and he called a spade a spade when it came to MS products in most cases.
Both Jesper and Steve have left a hole at MS Security... and they can't patch that!
Thu, 06/11/2009 - 15:51
#4
@kman
nice ;)
Sad to see him go. I had discussions with him on his blog and via email. He is a very knowledgeable guy and I think MS have made a big mistake.
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