Jeff Reintjes, Kevin Hao, Carinne Rawlins
Background• 1975 in Redmond, WA• 3rd most successful start-up company ever• Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Information• IP address• Whether or not a human or computer is
using Bing’s search engine• Facebook information (posts, pictures,
interest)• Purchases• Search histories
Value on Information• Microsoft and Bing work hard to protect
your personal information• Stored on databases SQL and Cosmos
• Credible companies can access it• MSIT is the primary protector of personal
information
Hardware• Comes from Dell and HP• Cost between $1,000 to $2,000 per
server• Employees have their company• Laptops• Tablets• Phones• Company equipment is either Windows,
Lenovo, or Acer
Software
• Microsoft 2012
• Windows 8 and 8.1
• Microsoft SQL
• Cosmos
Network: With Customers
Users from Bing.com
Web
Crawler
Index
Search
Results
Network: Employees• In the same corporate network
o Emails and other communicationo Anything saved in the server is all in the corporate
network o Microsoft alias to sign ino Private network for different data centerso Different centers require proper credentials
• Sharepoint o Collaborating softwareo Connect with employees across the enterpriseo Store, sync, share infoo Allow IT departments to manage cost, risk and their
time
Network: IT• Outlook servers for IM • Written codes are also stored in servers• Developers go to those servers and examine
code so everyone has the consistent copy • Everyone can connect and modify same
document• Access granted to those who have the need,
engineers, or the server personnel
IT/IS Positions• Microsoft information technology (MSIT)
• In charge of the things like security for their computers
• Required to get certain updates periodically
• In charge of firewalls, antivirus software, installation of windows and copying other images to hard drive
• If computer has problems you can contact them
Use of the Web
• Usually there are about an average of 2-5 million search results
• Images section: categories and subcategories like famous people, animals, and nature
• Videos section: YouTube, Hulu, ABC news, and Dailymotion
• Map section: is mainly used for navigation to business places, national parks, or anywhere that has an address
• News section: recent or significance in the US and the world
• Advertisements: can put your business on Bing and make it relevant depending on how much money you put in the website
Security and Privacy• MSIT
• Responsible for the security for their computers• Hackers
• Try to take down or overload the system: they block requests
• Know the IP Address• Customer Privacy
• If you go to the settings of your Internet browser, you can block cookies, traffic levels, popups, and delete history
• Private browsing mode• Algorithms to detect and block spam/malicious
websites from coming up in search results• Trojan horse virus
Recommendations/Evaluations
• While security algorithms detect malicious websites they don’t block all of them
• Proper credentials to access security systems • More relevant search results
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