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Brad Smith: Microsoft Aims to Help Agencies Catch Up on Security Protection

Brad Smith: Microsoft Aims to Help Agencies Catch Up on Security Protection - top government contractors - best government contracting event

Microsoft plans to invest $20 billion in cybersecurity in the next five years and Brad Smith, the technology company’s president, said a part of that investment will be used to help federal, local and state government agencies and other enterprise customers implement the security technologies they already purchased but have not started using, CNBC reported Wednesday.

Smith told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in an interview the lack of cyber professionals is one of the reasons behind the gap between cyber spending and better protection against hackers.

“I think we have a real shortage,” he said. “Many businesses don’t have the people that they need, either to implement the protections they, in some cases, are already paying for.”

Smith said Microsoft will spend $150 million on free engineering services over the next year to help public sector agencies “just catch up” on deploying security protection platforms they already have.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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