James Sfekas

Jim Sfekas is an Assistant General Counsel responsible for security, compliance, and privacy engineering at Microsoft. He leads a team that provides legal guidance to the engineering teams building Microsoft 365 security, compliance, and management services, as well as the Microsoft Defender security research team. He also advises the Microsoft 365 security team and their CISO on securing our services and responding to threats, including incident response. Sfekas came to cybersecurity after many years as a patent lawyer at Microsoft and Perkins Coie. He received his J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law and has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. Before becoming a lawyer, Sfekas worked as a software engineer for six years.