Microsoft has added IT threat researcher to its growing security team, this time luring Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow at anti-virus software maker McAfee's AVERT Labs.
"Microsoft is very pleased that Jimmy Kuo has joined the company as a senior security researcher with the Security Research & Response team," the representative said. "Microsoft looks forward to his contribution to its efforts to help protect customers from evolving threats." Microsoft did not provide any other details on Kuo's hiring.
According to multiple sources within the anti-virus community, Kuo has resigned from his longtime position at the anti-virus software maker to take on a new job at Microsoft. Kuo, who has been working in McAfee's AntiVirus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (AVERT) Labs since the outfit was started in 1995, will reportedly serve as an anti-virus 'guru-at-large' at Microsoft, which is rapidly expanding its security software business.
The hiring away of Kuo from Santa Clara, California-based McAfee represents the second major personnel defection from the security software maker to Microsoft in just the last month alone. In mid-August, Microsoft announced that it had hired veteran virus-hunter Vincent "Vinny" Gullotto to head up a new Security Research and Response team, a move that some believe lends instant credibility to the software maker's push into the Internet security market.
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