Security News > 2021 > January > For Microsoft, Security is a $10 Billion Business

The $10 billion figure, deliberately broken out during Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's last earnings call, comes from what Redmond describes as "Advanced security and compliance offerings" sold to hundreds of thousands of corporate customers.

For business analysts and industry watchers, the windfall is final confirmation that Microsoft has figured out its place as a prominent security vendor after multiple hits-and-misses over the years.

"This makes [Microsoft] an existential threat for many companies, especially if they compete in the security analytics, endpoint, identity, and email security markets," Pollard and Blankenship wrote.

The company also doubled down on its investments in security and risk management and found instant success with the Microsoft Azure Sentinel product, a product that falls neatly within the security information event management and security orchestration automated response categories.

As businesses speed up digital transformation plans, Microsoft now sits in an enviable position of being able to sell hybrid and cloud offerings and then sell "Advanced security and compliance offerings" to those enterprise licensees.

With hundreds of millions of Windows users globally generating data and telemetry to beef up its security capabilities, Microsoft is set up to cash in even more.

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