Microsoft Seeks Global Cybersecurity Accord
Microsoft has called on governments around the world to create a "digital Geneva Convention" as a way to normalize international cybersecurity rules and protect civilian use of the Internet. President Brad Smith, who is also Microsoft's chief legal officer, addressed the issue at the annual RSA conference held earlier this week in San Francisco, saying that governments -- with the assistance of technology companies in the role of NGOs -- need to establish international rules to protect civilians from cyberthreats during peacetime.