Relevant context: The author, Ryan Kalember, is an executive at Proofpoint. His title says "Cybersecurity Strategy", but he's really in marketing and PR. I kno

Relevant context: The author, Ryan Kalember, is an executive at Proofpoint. His title says "Cybersecurity Strategy", but he's really in marketing and PR. I know Ryan and would say he's a great guy and by far the best marketing executive I've worked with, but marketing is marketing. This piece is marketing. Proofpoint competes with Microsoft in the email security space, less and less effectively as time has gone on. They're partners with CrowdStrike and George Kurtz in the Spectra Alliance [1], and CrowdStrike also competes with Microsoft (in the EPP/EDR space), so it's not surprising to see them team up against a common competitor. All that said, the criticisms of Microsoft aren't without merit. There's definitely some truth to them. 1. https://www.proofpoint.com/us/partners/spectra-alliance https://www.proofpoint.com/us/partners/spectra-alliance