Microsoft Secure Future Initiative Insights

Microsoft Secure Future Initiative

The Secure Future Initiative (SFI) is a multi-year commitment to advance the way we design, build, test, and operate our technology to ensure that we deliver solutions that meet the highest possible standards of security. Explore progress in our effort to improve security across Microsoft, our customers, and the wider digital ecosystem.

- May 15, 2025
- 6 min read
How the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative brings Zero Trust to life

Read how you can improve your security posture by applying Zero Trust framework and principles based on learnings from the April 2025 Secure Future Initiative progress report.
- May 5, 2025
- 3 min read
Microsoft partners with Global Anti-Scam Alliance to fight cybercrime

In 2024 alone, scammers drained the global economy of more than $1.03 trillion. Together, Microsoft and the other members of GASA hope to stem these losses going forward.
- April 21, 2025
- 6 min read
Securing our future: April 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative

The Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) stands as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history and most extensive effort of its kind at Microsoft.
- April 17, 2025
- 11 min read
Microsoft’s Secure by Design journey: One year of success

Read about the initiatives Microsoft has undertaken over the past 18 months to support secure by design, secure by default, and secure in operations objectives as part of our SFI Initiative.
- April 16, 2025
- 12 min read
Cyber Signals Issue 9 | AI-powered deception: Emerging fraud threats and countermeasures

Microsoft maintains a continuous effort to protect its platforms and customers from fraud and abuse.
- April 8, 2025
- 6 min read
Meet the Deputy CISOs who help shape Microsoft’s approach to cybersecurity

Meet the minds behind how Microsoft prioritizes cybersecurity across every team and employee.
- January 28, 2025
- 7 min read
3 priorities for adopting proactive identity and access security in 2025

Adopting proactive defensive measures is the only way to get ahead of determined efforts to compromise identities and gain access to your environment.
- December 2, 2024
- 7 min read
Follow-up on Ignite with Ask Microsoft Anything: Microsoft Security edition

AI transformation starts with security. This was a major theme across the majority of the big news and reveals from Microsoft Security at Microsoft Ignite 2024.
- November 19, 2024
- 5 min read
AI innovations for a more secure future unveiled at Microsoft Ignite

Company delivers advances in AI and posture management, unprecedented bug bounty program, and updates on its Secure Future Initiative.
- September 23, 2024
- 5 min read
Securing our future: September 2024 progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI)

Since the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) began, we’ve dedicated the equivalent of 34,000 full-time engineers to SFI—making it the largest cybersecurity engineering effort in history.
- May 29, 2024
- 7 min read
6 insights from Microsoft’s 2024 state of multicloud risk report to evolve your security strategy

Discover the top multicloud security risks across DevOps, runtime environments, identity and access, and data in this new report from Microsoft.
- May 20, 2024
- 10 min read
New Windows 11 features strengthen security to address evolving cyberthreat landscape

Today, ahead of the Microsoft Build 2024 conference, we announced a new class of Windows computers, Copilot+ PC.