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Secure Future Initiative

Security above all else

"Microsoft runs on trust, and trust must be earned and maintained. Our pledge to our customers and our community is to prioritize your cyber safety above all else." 

Charlie Bell, EVP Security, Microsoft
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Principles

Microsoft Secure Future Initiative

Three principles anchor our approach to the Secure Future Initiative (SFI). We’re continuously applying what we’ve learned from incidents to improve our methods and practices, ensuring that security is paramount in everything we create and provide.

Foundations of the Secure Future Initiative

Successful business operations and change management are predicated on people, process, and technology working in harmony. These are the foundations of SFI.

Secure Future Initiative pillars

The six SFI pillars include goals and actions that define our approach to security.

Protect identities and secrets

Protect tenants and isolate systems

Protect networks

Protect engineering systems

Monitor and detect cyberthreats

Accelerate response and remediation

Explore the progress

Discover the ways SFI has already made progress.

Frequently asked questions

  • The Microsoft Secure Future Initiative, launched in November of 2023, is a multiyear commitment that advances the way we design, build, test, and operate our Microsoft technology to ensure that our solutions meet the highest possible standards for security.
  • Microsoft launched SFI to prepare for the increasing scale and high stakes of cyberattacks. SFI brings together every part of Microsoft to advance cybersecurity protection across our company and products. We carefully considered what we saw across Microsoft and what we heard from customers, governments, and partners to identify our greatest opportunities to impact the future of security.
  • We plan to keep ourselves accountable and provide the latest SFI news to customers, partners, and the security community through regular updates.

Explore Secure Future Initiative resources

Keep up with the latest SFI information.
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Blog

Explore our progress with SFI

September 2024 update: Discover how SFI helps us strengthen security and resilience throughout our digital ecosystem.

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