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Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.\nThe Security of MSRC team exists to raise the security bar to the highest standard for MSRC tooling and operations, across the systems and workflows that handle vulnerability intelligence. 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