House Homeland Security leaders ask Microsoft executive to testify at hearing on cyber safety board report

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) and ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-MS) are asking Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith to testify at a May 22 hearing on the company’s “security shortcomings,” following the release of a report from the Cyber Safety Review Board offering a scathing review of Microsoft’s security culture.

The hearing is intended to allow Microsoft “to present its perspective on the CSRB report” and “will examine Microsoft’s views regarding the company’s security shortcomings,...