Mark Russinovich
@markrussinovich.bsky.social
CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
Join our session at #SnowflakeBUID, From Vibes to Production: The Art, Discipline, and Pitfalls of Vibe Coding, where we share our experience on how to benefit from the speed of vibe coding, while still applying best practices to deploy production ready software. www.snowflake.com/en/build/ame...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Join our session at #SnowflakeBUID, From Vibes to Production: The Art, Discipline, and Pitfalls of Vibe Coding, where we share our experience on how to benefit from the speed of vibe coding, while still applying best practices to deploy production ready software. www.snowflake.com/en/build/ame...
I'm a Chrome/Edge web developer now! If you play Wordle like I do but wanted more insight into your past games and trends than the Wordle page shares, you will like Wordle Stat Explorer.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I'm a Chrome/Edge web developer now! If you play Wordle like I do but wanted more insight into your past games and trends than the Wordle page shares, you will like Wordle Stat Explorer.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ighph...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ighph...
Learn about the dCISO role at Microsoft in this SecurityWeek interview of me and Ann Johnson:
www.securityweek.com/ciso-convers...
www.securityweek.com/ciso-convers...
CISO Conversations: Are Microsoft’s Deputy CISOs a Signpost to the Future?
SecurityWeek talks to Microsoft Deputy CISOs Ann Johnson and Mark Russinovich.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Learn about the dCISO role at Microsoft in this SecurityWeek interview of me and Ann Johnson:
www.securityweek.com/ciso-convers...
www.securityweek.com/ciso-convers...
More Rust goodness for security critical code: Microsoft has joined the Open Device Partnership (ODP) and is investing in foundational security capabilities that will ship in every Surface device and is available for the PC ecosystem:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/surface...
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/surface...
Surface Joins the Open Device Partnership (ODP) | Microsoft Community Hub
Surface joins the Open Device Partnership (ODP) to drive innovation in secure, reliable, and future-ready device firmware—leveraging Rust, modern EC...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
More Rust goodness for security critical code: Microsoft has joined the Open Device Partnership (ODP) and is investing in foundational security capabilities that will ship in every Surface device and is available for the PC ecosystem:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/surface...
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/surface...
New ZoomIt release with image smoothing during both static and live zoom:
ZoomIt v9.10
ZoomIt, a screen zooming, recording and annotation utility, adds image smoothing for higher-quality visuals.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...
ZoomIt v9.10
ZoomIt, a screen zooming, recording and annotation utility, adds image smoothing for higher-quality visuals.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...
Sysinternals - Sysinternals
Library, learning resources, downloads, support, and community. Evaluate and find out how to install, deploy, and maintain Windows with Sysinternals utilities.
learn.microsoft.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New ZoomIt release with image smoothing during both static and live zoom:
ZoomIt v9.10
ZoomIt, a screen zooming, recording and annotation utility, adds image smoothing for higher-quality visuals.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...
ZoomIt v9.10
ZoomIt, a screen zooming, recording and annotation utility, adds image smoothing for higher-quality visuals.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...
Drasi turns 1! 🎉
We launched Drasi to make change-driven systems easier—and now we’re adding GQL support for continuous queries alongside openCypher. This means more flexibility and a future-proof path for graph-based apps.
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...
We launched Drasi to make change-driven systems easier—and now we’re adding GQL support for continuous queries alongside openCypher. This means more flexibility and a future-proof path for graph-based apps.
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...
Drasi at one year: now with GQL for change-driven solutions
Drasi’s first year brings GQL support and community growth, empowering developers to build event-driven apps. Learn more.
opensource.microsoft.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Drasi turns 1! 🎉
We launched Drasi to make change-driven systems easier—and now we’re adding GQL support for continuous queries alongside openCypher. This means more flexibility and a future-proof path for graph-based apps.
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...
We launched Drasi to make change-driven systems easier—and now we’re adding GQL support for continuous queries alongside openCypher. This means more flexibility and a future-proof path for graph-based apps.
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...
In our latest podcast episode of Scott and Mark Learn To, Scott Hanselman and I discuss the Microsoft career path for developers, including how we award Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow titles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfh...
EPISODE 25 - Scott and Mark Learn To... Level Up: Navigating Career Growth in Microsoft
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman
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October 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In our latest podcast episode of Scott and Mark Learn To, Scott Hanselman and I discuss the Microsoft career path for developers, including how we award Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow titles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfh...
Publishing my Wordle stats browser extension that I coded with AI soon!
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Publishing my Wordle stats browser extension that I coded with AI soon!
In our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To" podcast episode, we discuss the power of AI-assisted coding and go under the hood of LLM tokens and token probabilities with a web chatbot I AI-coded:
"Scott and Mark Learn To… Chatbot, Another Vibe-Coded Project by Mark"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1hl...
"Scott and Mark Learn To… Chatbot, Another Vibe-Coded Project by Mark"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1hl...
EPISODE 24 - Scott and Mark Learn To… Chatbot, Another Vibe-Coded Project by Mark
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman
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September 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To" podcast episode, we discuss the power of AI-assisted coding and go under the hood of LLM tokens and token probabilities with a web chatbot I AI-coded:
"Scott and Mark Learn To… Chatbot, Another Vibe-Coded Project by Mark"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1hl...
"Scott and Mark Learn To… Chatbot, Another Vibe-Coded Project by Mark"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1hl...
I demoed this at Ignite last year—now it's real. Every server gets a dedicated Hardware Security Module. This fundamentally changes how we secure connected systems. End-to-end hardware-protected keys is now the baseline, not the exception: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureCo...
Microsoft Azure Introduces Azure Integrated HSM: A Key Cache for Virtual Machines | Microsoft Community Hub
Today we are excited to release the public preview support for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Virtual Machines. As announced last year at Ignite, Azure...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I demoed this at Ignite last year—now it's real. Every server gets a dedicated Hardware Security Module. This fundamentally changes how we secure connected systems. End-to-end hardware-protected keys is now the baseline, not the exception: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureCo...
I never saw this coming: A Sysinternals tool, procdump, helping to improve the security of MacOS!
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
Security expert details how a simple Microsoft tool led to the discovery of a serious macOS flaw
The hole was fixed by Apple in the macOS Sequoia 15.3 update.
www.macworld.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I never saw this coming: A Sysinternals tool, procdump, helping to improve the security of MacOS!
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
www.macworld.com/article/2898...
I'm looking forward to Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco!
Had a Walk N Talk with the CTO of Azure, @markrussinovich.bsky.social
From cloud-native computing to live demos, Mark shares what he's excited about, what sessions he's leading, and even drops some pro tips for first-time attendees. #msIgnite #WalkNTalk #CloudNative #msITPro
From cloud-native computing to live demos, Mark shares what he's excited about, what sessions he's leading, and even drops some pro tips for first-time attendees. #msIgnite #WalkNTalk #CloudNative #msITPro
September 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm looking forward to Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco!
Microsoft is advancing the state of the art across all aspects of silicon security. In this post I, together with Omar Khan and Bryan Kelly (NCSA), cover our advancements: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems | Microsoft Azure Blog
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. Learn more.
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August 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Microsoft is advancing the state of the art across all aspects of silicon security. In this post I, together with Omar Khan and Bryan Kelly (NCSA), cover our advancements: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
In our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To" podcast, Scott and I have fun discussing our approaches to 1:1s, including with peers, people that report to us, and people we report to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWNs...
EPISODE 22 - Scott and Mark Learn To… What Makes Good 1-1s
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman
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August 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
In our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To" podcast, Scott and I have fun discussing our approaches to 1:1s, including with peers, people that report to us, and people we report to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWNs...
A question I often get from customers is "what's Microsoft's plan to mitigate the threat of quantum computers breaking cryptography". Here's a look at our Quantum Safe Program, which I help lead, and the timelines we've set for ourselves so our systems are ready: www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
August 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A question I often get from customers is "what's Microsoft's plan to mitigate the threat of quantum computers breaking cryptography". Here's a look at our Quantum Safe Program, which I help lead, and the timelines we've set for ourselves so our systems are ready: www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
Communications of the ACM (CACM) published our article, "The Price of Intelligence", which describes three key risks inherent in LLMs that enterprises must consider when designing and operating AI systems: hallucinations, jail breaks, and indirect prompt injection:
cacm.acm.org/practice/the...
cacm.acm.org/practice/the...
August 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Communications of the ACM (CACM) published our article, "The Price of Intelligence", which describes three key risks inherent in LLMs that enterprises must consider when designing and operating AI systems: hallucinations, jail breaks, and indirect prompt injection:
cacm.acm.org/practice/the...
cacm.acm.org/practice/the...
We've just launched Secure Future Initiative Patterns and Practices, a new set of repeatable, real-world security solutions based on how we protects our own infrastructure. From identity lateral movement to legacy systems, and CI/CD pipelines, this guidance is built to scale. aka.ms/SFI_Patterns...
Launching Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative patterns and practices | Microsoft Security Blog
Learn more about SFI patterns and practices: a new library of actionable guidance designed to help organizations implement security measures at scale.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We've just launched Secure Future Initiative Patterns and Practices, a new set of repeatable, real-world security solutions based on how we protects our own infrastructure. From identity lateral movement to legacy systems, and CI/CD pipelines, this guidance is built to scale. aka.ms/SFI_Patterns...
Project Radius is the future of cloud native application modeling. Read why I believe that it in my Q&A with @marypcbuk.bsky.social
Like Dapr and its predecessor OAM (which underpins Crossplane), Radius originated in @markrussinovich.bsky.social 's Office of the CTO so I asked him to explain why organizations need an application modelling platform and what Radius offers; @salaboy.com and @rstephens.me told me how Dapr fits in
August 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Project Radius is the future of cloud native application modeling. Read why I believe that it in my Q&A with @marypcbuk.bsky.social
Our USENIX ;login; article on Crescendo just dropped! We discovered what might be the most powerful blackbox jailbreak technique - Crescendo is undefeated against all frontier AI models in every harm domain we tested. I'm presenting at USENIX Security on August 14th.
www.usenix.org/publications...
www.usenix.org/publications...
July 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Our USENIX ;login; article on Crescendo just dropped! We discovered what might be the most powerful blackbox jailbreak technique - Crescendo is undefeated against all frontier AI models in every harm domain we tested. I'm presenting at USENIX Security on August 14th.
www.usenix.org/publications...
www.usenix.org/publications...
🚨 New open-source tool: RefChecker
A tool that checks reference accuracy in academic papers.
✅ Parses PDFs, LaTeX, and text
✅ Catches broken DOIs, wrong authors, messed-up URLs
✅ Built with GitHub Copilot & Claude
🔗 github.com/markrussinov...
A tool that checks reference accuracy in academic papers.
✅ Parses PDFs, LaTeX, and text
✅ Catches broken DOIs, wrong authors, messed-up URLs
✅ Built with GitHub Copilot & Claude
🔗 github.com/markrussinov...
GitHub - markrussinovich/refchecker: A tool that validates academic paper references
A tool that validates academic paper references. Contribute to markrussinovich/refchecker development by creating an account on GitHub.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🚨 New open-source tool: RefChecker
A tool that checks reference accuracy in academic papers.
✅ Parses PDFs, LaTeX, and text
✅ Catches broken DOIs, wrong authors, messed-up URLs
✅ Built with GitHub Copilot & Claude
🔗 github.com/markrussinov...
A tool that checks reference accuracy in academic papers.
✅ Parses PDFs, LaTeX, and text
✅ Catches broken DOIs, wrong authors, messed-up URLs
✅ Built with GitHub Copilot & Claude
🔗 github.com/markrussinov...
A preview of my RustConf keynote this September www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJw...:
Developer Security Quick Fire Questions with Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
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July 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A preview of my RustConf keynote this September www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJw...:
Scott and I have a great time in our latest podcast episode vibe coding a web site that analyzes our podcast recordings to show us who talks more...my suspicions were confirmed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tST...
July 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Scott and I have a great time in our latest podcast episode vibe coding a web site that analyzes our podcast recordings to show us who talks more...my suspicions were confirmed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tST...
We've made major enhancements to Azure virtual machine availability monitoring, including aggregated and individual health views, detailed impact and root cause reporting for disruptions, and trend analysis. Read more in my blog post:
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
July 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We've made major enhancements to Azure virtual machine availability monitoring, including aggregated and individual health views, detailed impact and root cause reporting for disruptions, and trend analysis. Read more in my blog post:
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
We've taken another step forward in Microsoft's adoption of confidential computing for our most critical workload by migrating the Windows licensing service into confidential virtual machines:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureco...
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureco...
July 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We've taken another step forward in Microsoft's adoption of confidential computing for our most critical workload by migrating the Windows licensing service into confidential virtual machines:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureco...
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureco...
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I love the show @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social learn to. Slightly embarrassingly, I thought it was only available on YouTube and not as a podcast. When Mark literally referred to it as "a podcast" I had my revelation. Here's the links:
shows.acast.com/scott-and-ma...
shows.acast.com/scott-and-ma...
Scott & Mark Learn To...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I love the show @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social learn to. Slightly embarrassingly, I thought it was only available on YouTube and not as a podcast. When Mark literally referred to it as "a podcast" I had my revelation. Here's the links:
shows.acast.com/scott-and-ma...
shows.acast.com/scott-and-ma...