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Microsoft is Taking Xbox Security Seriously

Dennis Durkin, COO and CFO of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business has been discussing with the press about how he feels about the Sony hacks of recent months and promises that Microsoft is taking it all very seriously in protecting its customer’s data. I’ll just go ahead and leave an analogy of some sort of red item and a bull right here.

“It’s bad for the industry that this has happened to Sony,” said Durkin in an interview with IndustryGamers. “It’s very damaging. So we don’t wish that upon anybody and you’ve seen we’ve been actually pretty quiet on the subject because we don’t want to appear to even be looking to be taking advantage of somebody else’s situation like that. That’s just not in our DNA.”

So, in reality they want to keep their heads down, which they’re not doing here? Weird.

“Over time, all of the bets Microsoft is making are about cloud bets,” said Durkin. “We want customers to feel confident about the quality of service they’re getting, the reliability they’re getting, the security of the data that they have and the security of the private information that they have. As a company, you can look back eight, nine years ago, when Bill Gates wrote his Trustworthy Computing Memo that basically said, ‘We need to change the way we architect our products and it has to be designed into the way we architect our products and services.’ So it’s in our DNA, across the company. This is not just an IEB thing.”

Lots of stuff about DNA, about Microsoft being safe etc. It will be interesting to see how well their defences hold up when hackers decide to take up the gauntlet that Microsoft threw down here. Consider your face slapped with a Microsoft glove Lulzsec.

However, one good point Durkin did make, which many people – including yours truly – have taken into consideration after these recent hacks, was password reuse. While it’s a pain in the ass to remember, personalising passwords for different services is the way to go. Programs like Keepass can really help organise things, so we would urge you to use something similar.

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