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   Who says crime doesn't pay? Microsoft has deployed its own security chip on   
   all Azure servers to protect its customers from $10 trillion cybercrime   
   'pandemic'   
      
   Date:   
   Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:04:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Microsoft unveils Windows Resiliency Initiative in a bid to avoid another   
   CrowdStrike-like disruption in enterprise environments.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Microsoft has revealed more on the custom-built security chip it deploys   
   across every Azure server, aiming to counter what it calls a cybercrime   
   pandemic now costing $10 trillion annually.    
      
   The Azure Integrated HSM , which was first announced in late 2024, is the   
   centerpiece of a wider security architecture the company outlined at the   
   recent Hot Chips 2025 event.    
      
   A slide Microsoft showed there claims the global cost of cybercrime is   
   currently $10.2 trillion - meaning it now ranks as the equivalent of the   
   third-largest economy in the world.   
      
   Azure security measures   
      
   The trillion-dollar estimate places cybercrime behind the United States and   
   China, but ahead of Germany and Japan, and also far bigger than the entire AI   
   market.    
      
   Microsoft said the scale of the threat requires both architectural and   
   operational changes.    
      
   As ServeTheHome reports, the company listed a number of statistics at the   
   event, including that Azure already spans more than 70 regions and 400 data   
   centers, supported by 275,000 miles of fiber and 190 network points of   
   presence, along with employing 34,000 engineers dedicated to security.    
      
   To take on the cybersecurity problem at a hardware level, Microsoft moved    
   from a centralized hardware security module model to its own Azure Integrated   
   HSM.    
      
   The custom ASIC is designed to meet FIPS 140-3 Level 3 requirements,    
   providing tamper resistance and local key protection within servers.    
      
   By embedding the chip in each system, cryptographic functions no longer need   
   to pass through a centralized cluster, reducing latency while enabling tasks   
   such as AES, PKE and intrusion detection locally.    
      
    ServeTheHome noted building an in-house chip required trade-offs. Instead of   
   scaling hardware security modules at a cluster level, Microsoft had to size   
   them for individual servers.    
      
   The result, the company argued, was a balance between performance, efficiency   
   and resilience.    
      
   The tech giant also presented its Secure by Design architecture at Hot Chips,   
   part of its Secure Future Initiative.    
      
   This includes Azure Boost, which offloads control plane services to a   
   dedicated controller and isolates them from customer workloads, and the   
   Datacenter Secure Control Module, which integrates Hydra BMC, and enforces a   
   silicon root of trust on management interfaces.    
      
   Confidential computing, backed by trusted execution environments, extends   
   protection to workloads in multi-tenant environments.    
      
   Caliptra 2.0, developed in collaboration with AMD, Google and Nvidia, anchors   
   security in silicon and now incorporates post-quantum cryptography through    
   the Adams Bridge project.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/who-says-crime-doesnt-pay-microsoft-has-deployed   
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