June 27, 2007 3:59 AM PDT
The 55 members of the MSN and Windows Live security team set policies, assess risks and respond to security incidents. The team includes people with varying backgrounds, everyone from a person hired straight out of high school at 17 years old to academics with Ph.D.s in computer science.
The team is working on marketing itself inside Microsoft.
"We had a robotic image on a lot of our awareness campaign materials last year, and it portrayed a very stern, standoffish approach to the team," Boden said. "We went away from that, specifically because we want to build better relationships with the development teams."
Boden is shown here with some of the marketing materials that Microsoft puts in its offices to get people to think about security.
Photo by Microsoft
