Tim Rains

Tim Rains is Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft’s Worldwide Cybersecurity & Data Protection group, where he helps Microsoft’s enterprise customers with cybersecurity strategy. Formerly, Rains was Director Cybersecurity & Cloud Strategy in Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, where he was responsible for managing marketing and corporate communications that span Microsoft’s products and cloud services as they relate to security, privacy and reliability. His expertise ranges across security incident response, threat intelligence and malware protection, security strategy, operations and development. Among other things, his team manages the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (www.microsoft.com/sir) which provides an in-depth analysis on the global threat landscape.