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Salim Chawro summarizes Microsoft’s July 2026 Secure Future Initiative (SFI) progress report, covering measurable improvements in identity and configuration hardening, AI-assisted proactive defense for vulnerability discovery and remediation, and preparations for post-quantum cryptography—plus concrete steps organizations can apply now.

Salim Chawro explains how Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) is being enforced with a multi-agent AI system that continuously evaluates live cloud services, looking for cross-domain weaknesses across code, identity, network, and runtime configuration to drive faster, higher-quality hardening.

Salim Chawro announces the public preview of external key management for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, aimed at organizations that must keep cryptographic key material physically outside Azure datacenters while still using Azure services that rely on customer-managed keys.