Security News > 2023 > November > Microsoft launches new initiative to augment security

Nearly 22 years after Bill Gates announced a concerted Microsoft-wide push to deliver Trustworthy Computing, the company is launching the Secure Future Initiative, to boost the overall security of Microsoft's products and its customers and users.

"In recent months, we've concluded within Microsoft that the increasing speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks call for a new response," says Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft.

As part of it, Microsoft is extending AI capabilities to help customers extract threat intelligence from their own data and respond to and limit the extent of cyber intrusions at machine speed, and to offer AI technologies with adequate safety and security safeguards.

"We're going to apply the concept of continuous integration and continuous delivery to continuously integrate protections against emerging patterns as we code, test, deploy, and operate," Charlie Bell, Executive Vice President of Microsoft Security, and engineering colleagues Scott Guthrie and Rajesh Jha outlined in an email sent to Microsoft employees.

"We will accelerate and automate threat modeling, deploy CodeQL for code analysis to 100 percent of commercial products, and continue to expand Microsoft's use of memory safe languages, building security in at the language level and eliminating whole classes of traditional software vulnerability."

"We will commit Microsoft's teams around the world to help advocate for and support these efforts."

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