Microsoft Predicts US Government Will Erode IT Industry Security Efforts
Microsoft believes that the government, but not necessarily the National Security Agency (NSA), may stymie the IT industry’s efforts to safeguard corporate and user data.
Top security executives at the company have put together their top predictions for 2014 for the Microsoft Security Blog. Paul Nicholas, senior director of Global Security Strategy for Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing division says that government efforts to bolster cyber-security may end up doing more harm than good if all stakeholders fail to see eye-to-eye.
Nicholas pointed to the upcoming release of the US government’s Cybersecurity Framework and continuing discussion pertaining to the directive on Network and Information Security (NIS) in the European Union (EU).
