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I have had people tell me cybersecurity is essentially being taken out of Connect (yearly goal reviews), which was Microsoft's big commitment to Congress as part of Secure Future Initiative.<\/p>

Brad Smith testified to US Congress everybody had to demonstrate what they'd done for security - but it's been watered down now to the point where it basically doesn't exist any more, I'm told. MS haven't told public about the changes.<\/p>

It's one to watch, to see if things start to backslide at MS w\/ cyber.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-29:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog\/statuses\/116013659297241065","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog\/statuses\/116013659297241065","objectType":"note","content":"

I have had people tell me cybersecurity is essentially being taken out of Connect (yearly goal reviews), which was Microsoft's big commitment to Congress as part of Secure Future Initiative.<\/p>

Brad Smith testified to US Congress everybody had to demonstrate what they'd done for security - but it's been watered down now to the point where it basically doesn't exist any more, I'm told. MS haven't told public about the changes.<\/p>

It's one to watch, to see if things start to backslide at MS w\/ cyber.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/116013659297241065","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog\/statuses\/116013635575706652","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/116013635575706652"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-02-04:objectType=thread:nonce=50cce97e3955272a","notice_info":{"local_id":"12060215","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-02-04T17:59:30+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/116013659297241065"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/guitarfosec","displayName":"JJ","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/240506-original-tmp20240205151744.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/240506-96-20240205151744.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/240506-original-tmp20240205151744.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/240506-24-20240205151744.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"240506"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/240506-96-20240205151744.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Be kind, creative, and curious.Background art credit: Malneyugn on deviantart.com (watermark got cut off... I suppose I should also mention it's Gaia's Navel from Secret of Mana)","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@guitarfosec","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"guitarfosec","displayName":"JJ","note":"Be kind, creative, and curious.Background art credit: Malneyugn on deviantart.com (watermark got cut off... I suppose I should also mention it's Gaia's Navel from Secret of Mana)"}},"content":"

@GossiTheDog<\/a> Maybe he read Woz's biography and said \"Wait, you can do that?\"<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-29:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/guitarfosec\/statuses\/116013643748410476","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/guitarfosec\/statuses\/116013643748410476","objectType":"note","content":"

@GossiTheDog<\/a> Maybe he read Woz's biography and said \"Wait, you can do that?\"<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@guitarfosec\/116013643748410476","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog\/statuses\/116013635575706652","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/116013635575706652"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-02-04:objectType=thread:nonce=50cce97e3955272a","notice_info":{"local_id":"12060199","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-02-04T17:57:11+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@guitarfosec\/116013643748410476"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog","displayName":"Kevin Beaumont","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/38360-original-tmp20251103132446.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/38360-96-20251103140751.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/38360-48-20251103133701.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/38360-24-20251103154349.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"38360"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/38360-96-20251103140751.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"GossiTheDog","displayName":"Kevin Beaumont","note":"Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them."}},"content":"

This seems weird.. the exec in charge of cybersecurity at Microsoft, Charlie Bell, is being replaced as apparently he wants to be an individual contributor engineer (which I was) rather than an org leader.
https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/updates-in-two-of-our-core-priorities\/<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-29:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog\/statuses\/116013635575706652","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/users\/GossiTheDog\/statuses\/116013635575706652","objectType":"note","content":"

This seems weird.. the exec in charge of cybersecurity at Microsoft, Charlie Bell, is being replaced as apparently he wants to be an individual contributor engineer (which I was) rather than an org leader.
https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/updates-in-two-of-our-core-priorities\/<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/116013635575706652","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-02-04:objectType=thread:nonce=50cce97e3955272a","notice_info":{"local_id":"12060182","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-02-04T17:54:29+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/116013635575706652"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6123702","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}