Microsoft Wants More Cyber Attacks On Azure Cloud

It sounds weird if you hear that Microsoft wants its Azure cloud service to be attacked more frequent for detecting more risks. However, the software giant doesn’t encourage any malicious attacks. So what exactly does Microsoft want?

Kimberlee Price, a spokesperson working at Microsoft’s Security Response Center, said that the company wants security researchers to try more attacks on its flagship cloud system to help it discover more flaws as well as solutions. Though many White Hat hackers are doing similar works for some older products such as Windows operating systems and Office suites, there are not enough working on Azure. To change that, Microsoft will reportedly it won’t take any legal action against those bug-finders, alongside building a system to reward them.

Keep in mind that a formal policy related to legal stuff is in demand for both the company and researchers. To work more on the vulnerability of this system, it's understandable as researchers are worried about the trouble when they access to customer data.

Since Microsoft has been focusing on gaining revenues from its cloud service, it’s a serious issue the tech giant needs to worry about. Amid the change in the business plan, Microsoft has to face new challenges on cyber-security to fulfill the responsibility of protecting customers.

At an academic conference held by Microsoft with attendees include hundreds of engineers and security experts from the company and other big names like Amazon Web Services or Google.