Overview

• The initiative extends Microsoft’s Government Security Program at no cost to all EU member states, EFTA countries, the UK, Monaco and the Vatican.
• Artificial intelligence will power real-time threat intelligence, early warnings on newly discovered vulnerabilities and detection of AI-driven deepfakes.
• The program targets espionage and disruption campaigns by state-backed actors in Russia, China, Iran and North Korea through enhanced intelligence sharing.
• This launch builds on Microsoft’s 2023 Secure Future Initiative and follows its April commitment of $10 billion to bolster European cloud infrastructure.
• Microsoft will renew partnerships with Europol, the CyberPeace Institute, LASR and the Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Center and continue supporting the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund.