Protecting Microsoft at AI speed: How SFI proactively hardens our cloud

This feed highlights Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) to harden cloud services with continuous, AI‑speed evaluation and reflects broader cloud security themes: CSPM moving from point‑in‑time compliance to continuous risk management, partner ecosystem hardening via least‑privilege and vetting, recognition in industry Frost/Forrester reports, and accelerated quantum‑safe readiness. Notable threats and research include: MCP tool‑poisoning risks that can turn AI agents into a control plane for data loss; a malicious Chromium extension spoofing Perplexity AI that redirects browser search/