With Machine Learning, Microsoft Takes Holistic Approach to Security -- Redmond Channel Partner

CEO Satya Nadella's 1 billion security initiative yields fruit with the Azure Security Center, powered by the technology behind Azure Machine Learning. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella late last year outlined the company's 1 billion investment in a new, holistic, operations-centric approach to addressing cybersecurity with the formation of its Enterprise Cybersecurity Group (ECG). Until this point, the Trustworthy Computing Initiative launched in 2002 by co-founder Bill Gates was largely at the center of the Microsoft security universe. That paved the way for the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) -- the companywide blueprint for how all of Microsoft's software would be architected, built and maintained. Consequently, SDL is baked into the Microsoft delivery model, and new versions of products ranging from SQL Server to Windows are markedly more secure than the last.