MICROSOFT'S SECURITY BUSINESS HAS CHANGED BLOOD: DECIMATING HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE

The head of Microsoft security operations, Hayete Gallot, is restructuring the security sector for more than 10,000 people, with the replacement of at least eight former heads of management and the reduction of hundreds of posts in recent layoffs. Microsoft redirects its resources to Security Copilot, Code Hole Scan and AI Agent Management Tool, while traditional threat detection products, such as Sentinel, reduce their inputs and the core terminal safety product Defender is given higher priority. Microsoft is also drawing on Anthropic ' s AI safety product, and the new tool MDASH, which can use multiple models to automatically search for loopholes, has been used to check Windows. In July, Microsoft repaired a record 622 loopholes, claiming that part of the increase was from MDASH. This round of adjustments was directly targeted at business concerns about the AI attack, and Microsoft hoped to use the AI security tool to pull the rate of increase while avoiding anthropic and OpenAI taking the new budget。