Tells The Reg China’s ability to p0wn Redmond’s wares ‘gives me a political aneurysm’ Comment Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he’ll experience a “political aneurysm” due to Microsoft’s many security messes.…
US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) told us that “government agencies have become dependent on a company that not only doesn’t care about security, but is making billions of dollars selling premium cybersecurity services to address the flaws in its products.”
This is spot on. Windows has a lot of problems. But, Microsoft is happy to sell you Defender for Identity, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud, and Defender for Bullshit. In fact, they will bundle them right into a license for you, so you can just pay one (huge) lump sum to Redmond. All those Defender products suck, but surely you want to use the Microsoft solution, right?
Any Windows admin could have told you that.