Security News > 2021 > January > Microsoft: 8 trillion daily signals power our cybersecurity services
Microsoft's security services grew by $10 billion in 2020, as more companies began utilizing their cloud-based security services.
Microsoft released the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021 earnings this week and beat consensus estimates by 7.36%. While most of this growth is attributed to Azure and Xbox, Microsoft's new blog post shows that security services are becoming a larger part of their revenue stream.
According to Vasu Jakkal, CVP of Security, Compliance and Identity, Microsoft security offerings have generated $10 billion in revenue over the past 12 months and have realized a 40% year-over-year growth.
With a massive footprint in the enterprise and consumer market, Microsoft states they can ingest eight trillion security signals every 24 hours.
Microsoft uses this information as part of their enterprise products, such as Microsoft Defender and Azure Sentinel.
Microsoft also continues to roll out new security features to its users, including yesterdays' general availability release of Application Guard for Office and increased security features for the redesigned Microsoft Edge Browser,.