“If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago … [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability to federal agencies.”
Microsoft sold the government the logs it needed to see whether it had been breached. It made about $20 billion from security services last year and had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to make logging a default. AJ Grotto puts Microsoft at 85 percent of federal productivity software, with Chinese and Russian spies already inside government email. Nobody fires the vendor when every agency runs on it.