Friday, January 16, 2015
Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free
Cybersecurity isn’t just an issue for the feds and big companies like Google and Facebook. Cities of all sizes around the world are increasingly reliant on information systems that could be vulnerable to attack.
That’s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, free of charge, to select city governments through 100 Resilient Cities, a non-profit organization funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. “We’ll lead workshops for multiple cities over a period of time to share what we’ve learned from operating some the world’s largest data centers,” says Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s chief environmental and cities strategist....