Microsoft Promises Better Cybersecurity With Its Secure Future Initiative

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Microsoft announced the Secure Future Initiative, a broad vision for tackling the cybersecurity challenges that have increasingly plagued the company and its customers in recent years.

The plan leans heavily on artificial intelligence tools as a “game changer” and includes a call for international cyberspace norms and an expansion of the company's 2017 Digital Geneva Convention.

The most tangible and immediately applicable component of the strategy relates to improvements in Microsoft's software development and engineering approach. In an email, executive vice president for Microsoft security Charlie Bell and colleagues Scott Guthrie and Rajesh Jha lay out a plan to further safeguard identity management systems in Microsoft products, improve security software development, and shorten response and patch rele…