The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: The Fatal Conflict of Microsoft Security

The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: The Fatal Conflict of Microsoft Security

There is an old German proverb: “Den Bock zum Gärtner machen.” It roughly translates to putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. In the modern cybersecurity landscape, this proverb has become a multi-billion-dollar business model, and corporate boards are buying into it blindly. Following my recent analysis of the Microsoft monoculture, we must examine the next logical—and highly alarming—step in their corporate strategy: Microsoft’s aggressive push to dominate the cybersecurity market with products like Microsoft Sentinel and the Defender […]