BlueHat Busts Microsoft Products

The BlueHat goals are two-fold

•  Expose senior product leaders and front line engineers to the threats and attack tools and methodologies used in the real world. Take the security threat from the theoretical/intellectual level of, "I understand what a buffer overflow is", to "OMG that's what it's like." BlueHat connects with employees at a visceral in order and *really* brings the message home. You can read about security issues and still be somewhat detached, but when someone breaks your product in front of a few hundred peers - that's a real catalyst for change.

•  Expose security researchers (and the security community) to Microsoft engineers and business leaders. In the past there's been the perception that MS doesn't "get" security and that we don't really care about security or customer protection. BlueHat gives us a chance to open up on our home turf and gives the researchers an opportunity to interact with all levels of the organization. They too get to experience first-hand that Microsoft does have smart, passionate engineers that do care about security.