Charlie Bell to Lead New Unit at Microsoft

Charlie Bell, former senior vice president at Amazon Web Services, officially has assumed the role of executive vice president at Microsoft. In fact, he’s leading a new engineering organization: Security, Compliance, Identity and Management.

“As digital services have become an integral part of our lives, we’re outstripping our ability to provide security and safety,” Bell wrote on his LinkedIn page on Sept. 15. “It’s constantly highlighted in the headlines we see every day: fraud, theft, ransomware attacks, public exposure of private data and even attacks against physical infrastructure. This has been weighing on my mind and the best way I can think to describe it is ‘digital medievalism,’ where organizations and individuals each depend on the walls of their castles and the strength of their citizens against bad actors who can simply retreat to their own castle with the spoils of an attack.”