Microsoft says it’s made meaningful progress meeting the goals of its Secure Future Initiative (SFI) in Windows 11 and Surface.
“Today, we published our November 2025 SFI Progress Report, sharing the latest on Microsoft’s company-wide commitment to security,” Microsoft’s Katharine Holdsworth and David Abzarian write in a post to the company’s Windows Experience Blog. “The latest Windows and Surface innovations reflect SFI’s core principles: Secure by Design, Secure by Default, and Secure Operations. These principles are embedded throughout our engineering and customer experience, driving measurable progress and real-world protection.”
Recent security innovations in Windows 11 cited by the two include passwordless sign-in using passkeys and FIDO2 credentials, phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA), improvements to Windows Hotpatch, and Quick machine recovery. And Surface has been working to create modern, memory-safe UEFI firmware and drivers using Rust that it open sourced to share with the entire ecosystem.
But the November 2025 SFI Progress Report provides a lot more detail, and it includes information about SFI progress across Azure, Microsoft 365, and other Microsoft platforms as well.