Mark Russinovich

Systems, cloud, AI, and writing

CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure.

Mark Russinovich’s current work spans AI research, the podcast, technical writing, and hands-on projects — with books, long-form material, and his drawings collected here.

Current focus

Security and practical AI

Current work centers on agent security, model robustness, and dependable cloud-scale systems.

Latest paperMetaBackdoor: Exploiting Positional Encoding as a Backdoor Attack Surface in LLMs

Latest episodeScott & Mark Learn To… Double-Check References

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Scott & Mark Learn To

The latest episode starts with thousands of hallucinated citations Mark found in conference submissions, then opens out into accountability, taste, and where leaning on AI quietly costs you judgment.

Latest episode: Double-Check References (Ep. 39)

Newest research

AI and agent security

Recent papers focus on agent security, model robustness, unlearning, and dependable AI infrastructure, with direct links where public versions are available.

Profiles

Elsewhere

LinkedIn carries shorter notes, GitHub hosts code and experiments, and the blog collects interviews, essays, and longer writing.

Books

Mark’s books span the Jeff Aiken cyberthrillers, Windows Internals, and Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools.

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Blog

Long-form essays, interviews, conference sessions, and technical commentary from across the archive.

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About Mark

Biography, career background, books, and the path from Windows internals to cloud architecture and AI research.

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