Cyber Security Conference - Foundational Cyber Security – Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, By Digital Crime Unit Lead Juan Hardoy – Microsoft EMEA

1. Meet the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit.
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) consists of legal and technical experts
who work with law enforcement agencies—including Europol, the FBI, and
Interpol—academia, global governmental agencies, and nongovernmental
organizations. The Cybercrime Center is a working lab that showcases Microsoft’s
approach to cybersecurity and how we engage in the fight against cybercrime.
Our job is to stop cybercrime, refer criminals to law enforcement, and create
a safe digital world. Throughout the process, Microsoft is committed to
trustworthy computing, customers’ privacy, and protection of their data.
DCU focuses on three specific areas:
We Opened
The Cybercrime
Center
to shut down cybercriminals.
DISRUPTING
MALWARE
TARGETING
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY CRIMES
PROTECTING
VULNERABLE
POPULATIONS

2. We’re not just crime stoppers.
We target global criminal organizations
that are looking to profit from IP crimes,
malicious software code, and botnets. We
do this by using Microsoft technology—
including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft
SQL Server, and Microsoft Azure.
Through our malware operations, and
our partnership with global Computer
Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), we’ve
successfully cleaned millions of infected
devices. In addition, we protect customers
by embedding this intelligence back
into Microsoft’s platform and services.
We also partner with local law
enforcement to help us execute
our cybercrime operations and to
protect unsuspecting consumers and
businesses from these crimes.
And we’ve developed state-of-the-art
ways to detect global cybercrime.
Our cyberforensics team tracks the
spread of counterfeit software and
provides a visual representation of
this data, including locations of where
the criminal activity is originating.
Beyond disrupting malware and targeting
intellectual property crimes, we also
focus on protecting the most vulnerable
among us, including children and the
elderly. Microsoft and Dartmouth College
collaborated to develop PhotoDNA, a
technology that helps detect and stop
online exploitation of children by creating
unique fingerprint-like signatures of
images. PhotoDNA is now considered the
industry standard and we provide it to
more than 50 other organizations, including
Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter,
and law enforcement agencies worldwide.
Cybercrimes cost billions.
Cybercrime is impacting millions of people
around the world. A recent study by IDC
reported that malware in pirated software
is costing consumers and businesses
billions of dollars every year. Criminal
organizations are creating malware with
illegal financial gain, data theft, espionage,
or other mayhem in mind.3 To protect
themselves from counterfeit software and
malware, consumers and organizations
need to purchase from authorized resellers.
This type of safe practice complements
DCU’s mission to end cybercrime.
Our plan is to keep playing offense
by helping law enforcement agencies
and our customers. We’ve stopped
everyone from violent narcotics cartels
to software pirates. We’re constantly
innovating so we can stay one step ahead.
That way, we can keep tracking and
shutting down these cybercriminals.
3The Link between Pirated Software and Cybersecurity Breaches, IDC white
paper 2014
The Facts
1The Norton Report, 2013
2Bloomberg Businessweek, “Cybercrime Costing Business Hundreds of Billions”
Find out more:
Microsoft.com/DCU
Technet.Microsoft.com/security
Microsoft.com/security/cybersecurity
Facebook.com/MicrosoftDCU
Twitter.com/MicrosoftDCU
DCUcybercrime@microsoft.com
Cybercrime costs the
consumer roughly
of online users were
cybercrime victims
in the past year.1
people are victims of cybercrime every day.1
dollars a year.2 BILLION
“Microsoft is the leader in
taking the fight directly to
cybercriminals to disrupt and
dismantle their operations.”
–Rich Sauer
CVP & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft