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> Microsoft was a joke in the security world for years, until multiple disastrously bad exploits forced them to get serious about security. Microsoft's securit
by bediger4000 1y ago
> Microsoft was a joke in the security world for years, until multiple disastrously bad exploits forced them to get serious about security.
Microsoft's security orientation must have peaked before this article (2015), and the culture slid back, because I see a lot of folks bagging on Microsoft security right now. If true, deviance was normalized at Microsoft, de-normalized, and the re-normalized.
- jiggawatts 1y agoMicrosoft's product security in 2025 is nowhere near as bad as it used to be, despite a much higher amount of code deployed more publicly. For example, Azure offers Microsoft software with various proprietary protocols exposed to the Internet that would have been unthinkable for any competent administrator a decade ago. This includes the SMB file sharing protocol and the SQL Server TDS network protocol. It's bizarre to me to see a file share and a SQL database just "on" the Internet, no firewall or anything.