Content by Salim Chawro (4)

Salim Chawro introduces Hardware Audit Logging for Azure Cloud HSM, which records supported management operations directly from the hardware. Signed audit data and certificates enable independent verification, while Azure Monitor Log Analytics delivery supports investigations and monitoring. The feature is rolling out across public regions and is automatically enabled on new resources where available.

Salim Chawro summarizes Microsoft’s July 2026 Secure Future Initiative (SFI) progress report, covering measurable improvements in identity and configuration hardening, AI-assisted proactive defense for vulnerability discovery and remediation, and preparations for post-quantum cryptography—plus concrete steps organizations can apply now.

Salim Chawro explains how Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) is being enforced with a multi-agent AI system that continuously evaluates live cloud services, looking for cross-domain weaknesses across code, identity, network, and runtime configuration to drive faster, higher-quality hardening.

Salim Chawro announces the public preview of external key management for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, aimed at organizations that must keep cryptographic key material physically outside Azure datacenters while still using Azure services that rely on customer-managed keys.