Cybersecurity needs multi-faceted solution: Microsoft

New Delhi: The global challenge around cybersecurity needs a multi-faceted solution with tech companies playing a bigger role while bringing in a larger pool of security professionals and applying best practices are crucial, Microsoft President Brad Smith said.

The top executive noted that recent incidents like the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica event were "tipping points" that impacted how people think about technology more broadly now.

"It (cybersecurity) is an extraordinarily important issue...I think the recent spate of cybersecurity attacks underscored that even more clearly. I think the solution has to be multi-faceted...(as a tech company) we have to ask ourselves how can we change our practices, how can we make our software and our services more secure and what more can we do to help customers around the world," he said during Raisina Dialogue. Running solutions on the cloud are more secure than when it runs through on-premise servers as it is easier to keep a watch on the data and the attacks, and the upgrades can be done, he added.