Transcript Microsoft and Bing work hard to protect your personal information

Jeff Reintjes, Kevin Hao, Carinne Rawlins
Background
• 1975 in Redmond, WA
• 3rd most successful start-up company ever
• Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Information
• IP address
• Whether or not a human or computer is using Bing’s
search engine
• Facebook information (posts, pictures, interest)
• Purchases
• Search histories
Value on Information
• Microsoft and Bing work hard to protect your personal
information
• Stored on databases SQL and Cosmos
• Credible companies can access it
• MSIT is the primary protector of personal information
Hardware
• Comes from Dell and HP
• Cost between $1,000 to $2,000 per server
• Employees have their company
• Laptops
• Tablets
• Phones
• Company equipment is either Windows,
Lenovo, or Acer
Software
• Microsoft 2012
• Windows 8 and 8.1
• Microsoft SQL
• Cosmos
Network: With Customers
Web
Results
Crawler
Index
Search
Users from
Bing.com
Network: Employees
• In the same corporate network
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Emails and other communication
Anything saved in the server is all in the corporate network
Microsoft alias to sign in
Private network for different data centers
Different centers require proper credentials
• Sharepoint
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Collaborating software
Connect with employees across the enterprise
Store, sync, share info
Allow IT departments to manage cost, risk and their time
Network: IT
• Outlook servers for IM
• Written codes are also stored in servers
• Developers go to those servers and examine code so
everyone has the consistent copy
• Everyone can connect and modify same document
• Access granted to those who have the need, engineers,
or the server personnel
IT/IS Positions
• Microsoft information technology (MSIT)
• In charge of the things like security for their
computers
• Required to get certain updates periodically
• In charge of firewalls, antivirus software,
installation of windows and copying other images
to hard drive
• If computer has problems you can contact them
Use of the Web
• Usually there are about an average of 2-5 million search results
• Images section: categories and subcategories like famous people,
animals, and nature
• Videos section: YouTube, Hulu, ABC news, and Dailymotion
• Map section: is mainly used for navigation to business places,
national parks, or anywhere that has an address
• News section: recent or significance in the US and the world
• Advertisements: can put your business on Bing and make it
relevant depending on how much money you put in the website
Security and Privacy
• MSIT
• Responsible for the security for their computers
• Hackers
• Try to take down or overload the system: they block requests
• Know the IP Address
• Customer Privacy
• If you go to the settings of your Internet browser, you can
block cookies, traffic levels, popups, and delete history
• Private browsing mode
• Algorithms to detect and block spam/malicious websites from
coming up in search results
• Trojan horse virus
Recommendations/Evalua
tions
• While security algorithms detect malicious websites they don’t block all of
them
• Proper credentials to access security systems
• More relevant search results