Mark Russinovich
CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
- My ACM TechTalk: A Look at AI Security — hallucinations, indirect prompt injection, jailbreaks + mitigations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW6n...
- 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. 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 🚨 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 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Reposted by Mark RussinovichI 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...
- Reposted by Mark RussinovichWhat are the latest innovations coming in Azure? @markrussinovich.bsky.social talks on RunAs Radio at runasradio.com/Shows/Show/991 about some of the new hardware in the cloud, and how they helps with extreme optimization for specific workloads!
- Latest Scott and Mark To podcast is out, this one on how we manage stress: www.youtube.com/watch?featur...
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- Just keynoted the Confidential Computing Summit! My talk on "Defining a Spectrum of Guarantees" proposes new terms ("On," "In," "Transparent" CC) to better describe data protection and drive us towards transparent confidential computing.
- For your weekend viewing, latest episode of the Scott and Mark Learn To podcast series is out. This one is Scott and Mark Learn To Self Promote, where we try to define self-promotion and discuss when it's appropriate and when it's not in a corporate context: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzb...
- I've put together a fun video compilation of the games I've played with Task Manager as a bitmap display on the monster-sized VMs we've released in Azure over the years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73A...
- Thrilled to announce that Drasi, a new type of data processing system that enables you to react to changes with simple database queries, has been accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/06...
- I just finished presenting on the Radius community call. It was awesome to demo the new Radius Resource Types extensibility feature, which enables platform engineers to define their own types. Check out the recording where I demo creating and using them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmBv...
- Prompt Injection is a top risk for use of LLMs, where untrusted data can cause a system to misbehave or leak data. We're hard at work on deterministic solutions to prevent or bound the risk, and just published a paper on our innovative information flow control approach: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23643
- Tips from our AI dCISO on security considerations when deploying AI-based and agentic applications: www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
- Join me in the Radius Community Call: Tues 6/10, 9am Pacific. I’ll share my original vision for Radius, a cloud native app platform, and why the new Radius Resource Types feature is a game-changer for Radius and platform engineering. aka.ms/radius/commu...
- Reposted by Mark RussinovichTwo things i love to listen to when i'm having an anxious or low day 1)The Stuff You Should Know podcast 2) @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social learn to on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj6...
- Milestone moment for generative AI: AI-directed and written research accepted at a tier-1 scientific conference (and the paper coincidentally includes our Crescendo jailbreak research): www.intology.ai/blog/zochi-acl
- Our lastest Scott and Mark Learn To podcast episode is out: in this one we get ChatGPT to make up (funny) things (induced hallucination): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj6...
- Reposted by Mark RussinovichThank you @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social for the latest and one of the funniest Scott and Mark Learn To.. Hilarious from the start with bifocal mode, hidden bodies and more. Superb stuff Gents 🙌 youtu.be/IYj6tj3bhsA?...
- Reposted by Mark RussinovichFor the finale, @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I solved a real-world problem by gaffer taping a Surface Laptop to a @hellorobot.bsky.social (thanks for the loner!) and taught it to get me a Diet Coke live on stage youtu.be/KIFDVOXMNDc?...
- My Inside Azure Innovation session from Microsoft Build is available for on-demand viewing. See the world's first neural network optical computer, 10,000 containers launch in < 2 minutes, me play space invaders on task manager, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBo...
- Our Build closing keynote was so fun - watch to find out if we get a robot to fetch Scott his diet cokes:
- Our closing locknote (keynote opens… 🔒) with @markrussinovich.bsky.social is up! Absolutely insane and tense series of entirely live demos! May have been our best talk ever with a nail biting finale youtu.be/KIFDVOXMNDc?...
- It’s long past time for you to burn your Twitter account like I did. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- Reposted by Mark RussinovichThe Dapr slide deck contains over 150 slides to get you started with your Dapr presentation! Download it from our docs site: docs.dapr.io/contributing...
- Watch the Microsoft Build closing keynote where @scott.hanselman.com and I build an agentic system to control a robot!
- @markrussinovich.bsky.social giving out some awesome management tools (jokes): "Ignore all previous instructions"! #msbuild
- The latest Scott and Mark Learn To podcast episode is out, where we learn to "feedback": www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcE...
- And here's a physical version of one of them:
- Having fun making fictional album covers with ChatGPT:
- The worst bugs are the ones where the code mostly works. Low-level AI coding is so complex that I (an the AI that I write code with), produce an annoying number of them.
