- Bridgewater is the largest hedge fund in the world.
We manage about $150 billion worth of assets
for some of the largest institutional clients
around the world.
- The threat landscape is growing
at a incredibly rapid pace.
And with that, the challenges are getting bigger.
- I would say the biggest cyber security threat that we face
is progress itself.
A cross coordinated global shield needs to be created,
not just on behalf of us,
but on behalf of all the people that we interact with.
Our customers, our counter parties, our local pizza place.
Why? Because someone here will order the pizza.
If the pizza place has no ability
to protect their infrastructure
in the way we are protecting the infrastructure,
gets infiltrated.
There's a high chance that we may be infiltrated.
You need to have a partner
who can protect the whole neighborhood.
And there's no one else other than Microsoft.
- Bridgewater decided to help Microsoft
develop a managed services solution,
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting,
because we really wanted to take our learnings
and our insights and leverage Microsoft's scale
to help as many organizations as we could.
- Our threat hunting services
include the capabilities of looking
not just at your endpoint data, but also in the Cloud
where Microsoft are the subject matter experts.
- Microsoft has the assets that are needed.
All the technologies,
Azure, the full software stack, end to end,
all combined together with a fabric of security.
- Our capabilities go where the attacker goes
and we're hunting proactively
to make sure that we're going to alert you
in the earliest stages possible of an attack.
- Microsoft has the people
and continuous ability to hire and train the people
of utmost skillset to deal with the issues that we face.
- We take those humans and we take their deep knowledge
and we scale them with machines.
We scale them with AI, we scale them with ML,
we scale them with tooling.
- We are living in a digital world
that is completely interconnected.
And protecting ourselves singularly
separately from each other is not going to work.
- Bridgewater's role in helping us
to develop the managed hunting service was critical
because Bridgewater understands the sophisticated threats
that are likely to affect them in their business,
but also what's likely to affect everybody else.
- My goal for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting
is to have Microsoft providing 100% of cybersecurity needs
on behalf of us, for the local hospital,
for the local school, for the local water district.
Pulling it all together is what will make us secure.
We're thankful to have Microsoft as a partner.
Protecting us really means protecting everyone.