Financial Times | May 15 2017:
Group says WannaCry attack is a ‘wake-up call’ in strongly-worded blog post
To read article in Financial Times – please click here.
From The Original Blog By Brad Smith Of Microsoft:
The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week’s cyberattack
The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake-up call. They need to take a different approach and adhere in cyberspace to the same rules applied to weapons in the physical world. We need governments to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits.
This is one reason we called in February for a new “Digital Geneva Convention*” to govern these issues, including a new requirement for governments to report vulnerabilities to vendors, rather than stockpile, sell, or exploit them. And it’s why we’ve pledged our support for defending every customer everywhere in the face of cyberattacks, regardless of their nationality.
This weekend, whether it’s in London, New York, Moscow, Delhi, Sao Paulo, or Beijing, we’re putting this principle into action and working with customers around the world.
We should take from this recent attack a renewed determination for more urgent collective action. We need the tech sector, customers, and governments to work together to protect against cybersecurity attacks. More action is needed, and it’s needed now.
In this sense, the WannaCrypt attack is a wake-up call for all of us. We recognize our responsibility to help answer this call, and Microsoft is committed to doing its part.
* To see Brad Smith’s video presentation “We Need A Digital Geneva Convention”, given at the 2017 RSA Conference – please click here.
To read full blog on WannaCry event by Brad Smith – please click here.
