Microsoft's Charney talks up security
crn.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft's security whistle-stop tour continued in Boston Wednesday with a company executive acknowledging that security is a cost center. Discussing how some have tried to position security efforts as potentially beneficial to the bottom line, Microsoft Chief Security Officer Scott Charney admitted he was cynical. "Security is a cost center. If there were no attacks, no one would bother," he told a few hundred IT professionals at the event.