Scott Field, lead architect for security, Windows Core Operating System Division

Scott Field is the lead architect for security in the Windows Core Operating System Division, overseeing security architecture for the next releases of Windows, and also contributes to security architecture outside Windows. He chairs the security architecture review board, which reviews architecture and designs for security sensitive components at Microsoft. Prior to his current role, Scott was Software Architect for the Security Emerging Technology group, responsible for strategy and architecture spanning Firewall, Anti-malware, operating system kernel security efforts, security management, and associated intellectual property and technical aspects of security acquisitions. Scott has been working on security at Microsoft for approximately 14 years, and has been seen many shifts in the attack landscape, as well as overseeing the technical approach to addressing the changing landscape. He’s held individual contributor and management positions in security development groups, contributing to releases of Windows from NT4 to Vista, as well as contributing code and ideas to other projects such as Windows mobile, Xbox, Exchange, and SQL. Scott has filed approximately 60 software patents.