Articles about Charlie Bell

Microsoft will base part of senior exec comp on security, add deputy CISOs to product groups

by Todd Bishop on May 3, 2024May 3, 2024 at 9:54 am

Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches, under growing pressure from government leaders and big… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft exec Charlie Bell joins Twilio board; FasterBetter hires Seattle marketing leader

by Charlotte Schubert on March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 at 4:20 pm

— Microsoft executive Charlie Bell joined the board of directors of customer engagement software giant Twilio. Bell is executive VP of security, compliance identity and management at Microsoft, and is… Read More

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New ‘Security Copilot’ is Microsoft’s latest integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4

by Todd Bishop on March 28, 2023March 28, 2023 at 9:30 am

Microsoft previewed new technology that uses artificial intelligence to defend against hackers by identifying, analyzing, and understanding the inner workings of malicious cyberattacks. The new “Security Copilot,” announced Tuesday morning,… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft cybersecurity leader Charlie Bell on the quest to civilize the digital world

by Todd Bishop on October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 at 11:45 pm

Can the online world move from medieval times to a new era of civilization? That was the question on Charlie Bell’s mind when the engineering leader left Amazon after more than… Read More

Microsoft cybersecurity chief Charlie Bell lays out strategies to fight ‘growing’ threat

by Alan Boyle on October 6, 2022October 12, 2022 at 2:50 pm

Microsoft’s point man on cybersecurity, Charlie Bell, acknowledges that the threat posed by “bad actors” online — including nation states and crime syndicates with their own HR departments — is… Read More

Join us at the GeekWire Summit, our signature tech and business conference, Oct. 6-7 in Seattle

by Todd Bishop & John Cook on September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 at 9:03 am

Some of our best memories at GeekWire have come out of the candid conversations, insightful talks, mind-blowing innovations, and fun moments that define the GeekWire Summit. And many of you… Read More

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Microsoft ‘Entra’ launch renews push for decentralized ID and cross-cloud permissions

by Todd Bishop on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 at 9:40 am

Microsoft is rebranding its identity and access products under the name “Entra,” and rolling out a decentralized system to verify online identities, confirm permissions and grant user access. The company… Read More

Securing the metaverse: Microsoft exec Charlie Bell calls on industry to learn lessons of the early web

by Todd Bishop on March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 at 10:52 am

Charlie Bell has the metaverse on his mind. That alone is a notable takeaway from a post this morning by the leader of Microsoft’s big new security engineering organization. Bell,… Read More

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

by Todd Bishop on February 3, 2022February 7, 2022 at 7:30 am

“Your code will be attacked.” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code,… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: The shared orbits of Microsoft and Amazon, and the tech industry’s future in space

by Todd Bishop on October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 at 10:02 am

Plenty of well-known tech leaders have jumped from Microsoft to Amazon over the years. So what does it say about the evolution of the companies that one of Amazon’s most… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon reach truce allowing former AWS executive Charlie Bell to start in new role

by Todd Bishop on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 at 2:12 pm

Microsoft and Amazon reached an agreement that clears the way for former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell to start his new job leading a newly formed cybersecurity engineering organization… Read More

Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group

by Todd Bishop on September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 at 9:28 am

Microsoft confirmed that it has hired longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell to lead a newly formed engineering organization to address cybersecurity and related issues, but said it has… Read More

Amazon cloud exec Charlie Bell’s new Microsoft job puts non-compete deals back in the spotlight

by Todd Bishop on August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 at 5:12 pm

What exactly will longtime Amazon executive Charlie Bell do at Microsoft? It’s possible that even Bell doesn’t know the precise answer to that question yet. Microsoft and Amazon are negotiating… Read More

Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

by Taylor Soper on August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 at 7:03 pm

Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud… Read More

Tech Moves: The Riveter’s Amy Nelson to lead new SaksWorks venture; Funko’s leadership transition

by Cara Kuhlman on August 10, 2021September 15, 2021 at 3:15 pm

— Amy Nelson is getting back into co-working. The founder and former CEO of The Riveter announced Tuesday that she is the president of SaksWorks, a new partnership between Saks… Read More

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Amazon senior cloud exec Charlie Bell is leaving the company after more than 23 years

by Todd Bishop on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 at 7:00 pm

Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. His departure, reported… Read More