Microsoft Touts Recent Windows 11 and Surface Security Wins

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. And those who attend Ignite 2025 in-person or virtually may want to check out the following sessions:

• BRK 258: Inside Windows Security, from client to cloud
• BRK 345: Resilient by design: How Windows has evolved with new recovery tools
• BRK 338: Advancing Windows device security through Surface innovation

Microsoft Ignite 2025 gets underway next week in San Francisco.