CanSecWest, in Vancouver BC, is one of my favorite conferences each year. Microsoft products and engineers will play a prominent role. Microsoft welcomes the contest as another opportunity to engage the security community in productive dialogue around responsible disclosure and effective security engineering. The more we know about the attacks, the better prepared we can be on defense. The security community is offering knowledge of attacks and defenses that consumers and other vendors can use to stay safe or create more secure products. Microsoft will take this information and apply it towards securing our networks, platforms and applications (hopefully before they ship)
Source: https://threatpost.com/cansecwest-caution-community-play-031909/72396/