New Security Ventures

“Defenders think in lists. Attackers think in graphs. As long as this is true, attackers win”

– John Lambert

The mission of the New Security Ventures (NSV) team is to empower defenders with next-generation security technologies.

Microsoft delivers code and compute that empower the world, and NSV works to ensure the trustworthiness of that technology. We transform research ideas into scalable prototypes, open-source projects, and new production capabilities.

Our team is currently focused on the following ventures:

Project Ire – An LLM-powered autonomous malware classification system that replicates expert reverse-engineering workflows to identify malware at scale.

Project Freta – A prototype exploration of automated memory introspection: trusted sensing of threats to power the future of automated cloud defense.