With the MSWM transaction the firm is planting its flag more firmly in the wealth management space while pulling back on riskier activities like trading.
This would ensure that popular vectors, developed by cyber criminals to attack and control the target rich consumer space would not also lead to infections of SCADA controllers, transaction processors, or real time environments.
"The proposed transaction itself would give Microsoft one of the industry's strongest portfolio's in the growing social-media space, " said Mr Burmaster.