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Microsoft exec vows to fix security gaps that let China-linked hackers get federal emails
Brad Smith told Congress that after a spate of major security lapses Microsoft is carrying out “the single largest cybersecurity engineering project in the history of digital technology.”
On Wednesday an official from the federal government’s top cybersecurity agency replied to a letter from Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., telling him that CISA “has made tremendous progress” in strengthening U.S. cyber defense. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has proposed legislation designed to make information technology contracts more competitive and require tech firms to ensure their software can operate with other companies’ products. “It’s time to break the chokehold of big tech companies like Microsoft on government software, set high cybersecurity standards and reap the many benefits of a competitive market,” Wyden said when he introduced the bill.
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