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How the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative strengthens cybersecurity

Strengthen your cybersecurity with Microsoft Secure Future Initiative: proactive protection, Zero Trust and regulatory compliance in cloud environments.


The digital attack surface of organizations has continued to grow. With increasingly distributed environments, more mobile users, and multi-cloud architectures, traditional security models have become obsolete. At the same time, cyberattacks have evolved in scale and sophistication, driven by highly organized criminal networks and the use of artificial intelligence to automate breaches.

This is compounded by increasing regulatory pressure (NIS2, DORA, GDPR) that demands not only to protect, but also to demonstrate resilience, traceability, and compliance.

In this context, the "secure-by-design" paradigm and Zero Trust strategies become the basis for rethinking enterprise cybersecurity. And this is where Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative (SFI) is positioned as a key reference framework.

IMG RRSS (ING) - BLOG - Unikal - CYBWhat is the Secure Future Initiative (SFI)?

The Secure Future Initiative is Microsoft's comprehensive strategy to help organizations anticipate threats and build more secure, resilient, and adaptive environments. Its approach is based on three fundamental pillars:

  1. Zero Trust as the architectural foundation.
  2. Automation and intelligent detection with AI.
  3. Secure-by-design.

SFI responds to the need to evolve from reactive cybersecurity to a proactive posture, supported by cloud technologies, artificial intelligence, and integrated visibility.

The components of SFI: modern, automated, and connected security

Microsoft articulates the Secure Future Initiative through a series of tools, best practices, and services that enable its vision to be implemented in real-world environments:

Zero Trust and identity management

  • Microsoft Entra: Unified identity and access management, with adaptive and conditional control.
  • Intelligent segmentation: Micro-segmentation policies based on context and risk. 

Detection, response and automation

  • Microsoft Defender XDR: Extended detection and response with automated threat analysis.

  • Microsoft Sentinel: Cloud-native SIEM with integrated intelligence and automated response. 

Secure-by-Design Toolkit

  • Tools and guidelines to integrate security from the design phase of products and services.

  • Continuous audits and dynamic testing of configurations, identities and access.

Azure AI and Azure PaaS Integration

  • Azure AI Security: Predictive models to identify anomalous patterns before they become incidents.

  • Azure PaaS: Secure development capability with native compliance and security integrations. 

Tangible benefits for businesses

Implementing the SFI strategy enables measurable results on several key fronts:

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Reduced incident detection and response times through automated flows and contextual intelligence. Icono Aguamarina - Sello Seguridad Candado 2

 

Proactive security, thanks to the early identification of emerging attack vectors.
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Enhanced compliance, with traceable evidence and end-to-end visibility. Icono Aguamarina -  Gráfico PC análisis de datos KPIs métricas resultados

 

Unified visibility of identities, devices, access, and user behavior.

Unikal Tech Partners: your partner in the Secure Future Initiative strategy

At Unikal Tech Partners we accompany organizations from different sectors in their transition to secure and resilient cloud architectures, aligned with the best market practices. As experts in Microsoft technologies, we help to:

  • Assess current cybersecurity maturity under a Zero Trust approach.
  • Design and implement Microsoft SFI solutions adapted to the operational and regulatory context of each client.
  • Optimize Azure PaaS environments for greater security, efficiency and automation.
  • Align cybersecurity with business objectives, ensuring continuity, compliance and secure growth.

Our consultative expertise, combined with in-depth knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem, allows us to act as a strategic partner in critical secure digital transformation projects.

Do you want to know if your organization is prepared for current and future threats? At Unikal we help you identify opportunities for improvement in your security architecture with a specialized consultancy in Microsoft Secure Future Initiative.

Contact our experts and take the first step towards a more intelligent, automated, and resilient security.

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