Main Takeaways: - How is it different? - What are the similarities? - What are the difficulties? - How can you be successful at managing security products?

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5. Security Product
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Susmitha Kothari

6. What will
we talk
about?
• A little bit about Azure Sphere
• Roles and Responsibilities of Product
management
• Security Product specifics
• Differences? Similarities?
• Wrap up

7. What makes a device
highly secured?
https://aka.ms/7properties

8. Azure
Sphere
• An end-to-end solution for securely
connecting existing equipment and to create
new IoT devices with built-in security. Put the
power of Microsoft expertise to work for you
every day.
▪ Azure Sphere certified chips
▪ Azure Sphere Operating System
▪ Azure Sphere Security Service
▪ Ongoing OS and security updates
Ongoing OS &
Security
Updates
Hardwar
e
Cloud Security
Operating System

9. What value does a Product Manager
add?
CUSTOMER DAT
A
BUSINESS MARKETS &
INDUSTRY

10. Understand your
Customer
How?
•Empathy
•Qualitative learning
•Quantitative understanding
For security Products
•Security needs
•5 Whys
•What else is important?

11. Understan
d
Data
What about data?
•Deep knowledge of
data
•Customer insights
•Data from sales Security Data?
•Threat detection
•Pen testing
•Security forums

12. Understanding
Business
Your business
•What is the Business model?
•Who are your stakeholders?
•What are the dynamics?
Security and Business?
•Compliance
•Threat model reviews
•Crypto board reviews

13. Markets &
Industry
Understanding
Industry
•Know thy competition
•Trends
Security Industry?
•Not much
different from any
other product

14. To summarize
CUSTOMER DAT
A
BUSINESS MARKETS &
INDUSTRY

15. What is the role of a (Security) Product Manager?
Identify Customer
requirements
Define what gets built Drive Adoption

16. Many
Roles
Source: The Many Hats of Product Managers |
by Productboard | The Age of Product
Excellence | Medium

17. Learning from Azure Sphere Journey
BALANCE BETWEEN SECURITY
AND PRODUCTIVITY
UNDERSTANDING THE
ECOSYSTEM
BETTER INTEGRATION WITH
KEY STAKEHOLDERS

18. Resources
•https://aka.ms/7properties
•The Many Hats of Product Managers | by Productboard | The Age of
Product Excellence | Medium
•Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love: Marty Cagan:
8601416147123: Amazon.com: Books
•https://cve.mitre.org – Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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