Accountability, oversight and AI: Inside Microsoft’s security transformation

China’s hack prompted a federal review board to sharply criticize Microsoft’s lax security practices.

“Ship dates, market pressure, and now the race to ship AI capabilities all push against slowing down for security.”

Every performance review conversation now includes a discussion of how the employee contributed to Microsoft’s and its customers’ security.

She added, however, that she is “increasing investment” in Windows security oversight.

Huang believes her security experts can reasonably oversee “three major areas” of Microsoft’s business, and one of their top priorities is the company’s agentic AI technology.