Is Microsoft Planning to Take Over the Security Market with Its New Windows 8 Features? – Alexey Polyakov in the Spotlight
by J. Doggett on Nov.08, 2011, under News Releases, Tech News
“Nota Bene”–Eugene Kaspersky’s Blog, November 8, 2011
Do you want to know some of Microsoft’s deepest, darkest secrets? Kaspersky Lab Chairman and CEO Eugene Kaspersky sits down with Alexey Polyakov, the head of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Emergency Response Team. Before joining Kaspersky Lab, Alexey worked as a senior security program manager at Microsoft. In Eugene’s latest blog post, Alexey analyzes Microsoft’s Windows 8.
Windows 8 is coming! In line with its tendency to introduce high-profile security features in each new version of its operating system, Microsoft is unleashing some pretty interesting new protection technologies with its next OS release. In fact, some of them may dramatically change the cyber threat landscape and bring the security industry a set of very handy tools for protecting users against sophisticated threats like rootkits.
Today my “in the Spotlight” guest is Alexey Polyakov, the Head of KL’s Global Emergency Response Team, our consulting service that assists enterprises in investigating security incidents, and auditing and improving corporate security policy.
Ever since graduating from Moscow State University with an M.Sc. in Physics, Alexey’s been working in the IT security industry – now for 15 years – with a résumé featuring positions at McAfee, IBM, Symantec and Microsoft.
Prior to joining us at KL Alexey worked as a senior security program manager at Microsoft, where he became the proud founder of the Microsoft Security Response Team and was one of the key members of the company’s security development. He’s authored and co-authored security technologies protected by 12 patents, and one such technology was Secure Boot – perhaps the most ambitious advance in Windows 8 in terms of security.
Read the rest here from Eugene Kaspersky’s Blog
