Cristin Flynn Goodwin is the Assistant General Counsel for Cybersecurity in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing division. Cristin counsels Microsoft businesses on a range of cybersecurity legal issues, and is the lead counsel for Microsoft’s Government Security Program (GSP) which provides governments with a structured, legal means to access source code and affirm there are no back doors in Microsoft products or services, as well as to share information about threats and vulnerabilities. She helped launch the GSP’s Transparency Centers in June of 2014 to enable secure government access to source code in response to the Edward Snowden allegations. Since 2008, she has been Microsoft’s lead counsel for Microsoft’s security incident response processes and security updates for over a billion customers around the world. Cristin also provides legal counsel for Microsoft’s cybersecurity public policy worldwide, supporting her clients and legal and policy experts in Microsoft’s subsidiaries worldwide. Goodwin was also actively engaged in the policy, technology and legal work that ensued with the Federal government in the years following 9/11. She can be followed on Twitter @CristinGoodwin.
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