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# Swiss foreign ministry says cloud safeguard works only partially as 2025 audit surfaces
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-02-01-switzerland-dfae-microsoft-cloud-audit/
- Published: 2026-02-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-20T11:11:19.000Z
- Description: RTS published a previously unreported summer 2025 audit at the Swiss foreign ministry: documents classified as internal sat in Microsoft’s cloud, and the ministry says the safeguard against classified uploads works only partially. Parliament has voted CHF 250 million for a Swiss Government Cloud.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [RTS, 1 February 2026](https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/article/faille-de-securite-donnees-sensibles-suisses-du-dfae-exposees-dans-le-cloud-americain-de-microsoft-29136582.html?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish how many documents were exposed, that any was accessed, or that the position today matches what the summer 2025 audit found.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Disclosure of a 2025 audit; no ownership, operation or law question changes on the day. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**Correction, 2026-09-20.** The news is RTS publishing a summer 2025 audit not previously public, not the audit itself; the headline read as though the audit were the event. The item said: “Swiss audit finds DFAE documents still reaching Microsoft’s US cloud”

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-09-20\. The editor read and corrected it on 2026-09-20\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)