# Despite SolarWinds Cyberattack, Microsoft's Azure Business Predicted to Benefit **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** hacking, windows\ **Created:** [January 25, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/despite-solarwinds-cyberattack-microsofts-azure-business-predicted-to-benefit/170795 "2021-01-25T03:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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![im-250704](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/8/5/85c83ccea881ffd2d9c108c4cb871d2a5a19b7fb.jpeg) “Microsoft Corp. was wrapped into a massive cybersecurity attack late last year,” reports MarketWatch, “but the unprecedented intrusion [may actually end up being a positive for the company’s bottom line](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-earnings-the-solarwinds-hack-may-be-a-good-thing-for-azure-11611352122).” _UBS analyst Karl Keirstead, who has a buy rating and a $243 price target, said while Microsoft products were leveraged by hackers in the attack on SolarWinds Corp.'s Orion IT management software, because they are commonplace, “the broader cyber-security community are not pointing fingers at Microsoft.”_ Keirstead noted that the attack actually drove more customers into public cloud infrastructures like Azure, [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) Inc.'s and Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud “given a view that cloud data centers are more secure and that constantly patching/updating on-premise software like Orion presents a security risk that can be transferred to Microsoft, Amazon or Google.” _“Bottom line, we believe this cyber-security attack could be a modest net positive for Microsoft,” Keirstead said._