compliance auditing

Windows users are not rushing to the Windows 11 upgrade party, and the headline numbers driving that story come straight from an investor briefing that reframes the migration as a patchwork of technical limits, economic choices, and plain user inertia. Dell’s COO told investors that roughly 500...

Microsoft’s push for IT administrators to enable web search in Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a deliberate nudge from Redmond: the company believes the feature materially improves Copilot’s accuracy and utility, and it has doubled down on technical, administrative, and contractual safeguards to...

Fortude’s confirmation as a holder of the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a visible step up in the company’s Azure credentials and underscores a wider industry trend: Microsoft’s partner program is shifting from simple badge-collection to measurable, audit-backed proof of...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...

Microsoft has issued a clear reminder that Microsoft Access 2016 and Access 2019 — like many Office-era products — will reach official end of support on October 14, 2025, meaning security updates, bug fixes, and technical assistance stop on that date and users who remain on these versions will...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has taken a decisive step toward finally letting organizations retire the last Exchange server in hybrid environments by adding cloud-managed remote mailbox support — a per-mailbox “flip-the-switch” that transfers Exchange attribute authority to Exchange Online while...

Microsoft’s decision to standardize Azure Cloud HSM on Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware marks a decisive shift in how hyperscalers are architecting cryptographic assurance at cloud scale — pairing FIPS 140‑3 Level 3 certified, host‑attached PCIe HSM modules with a managed, customer‑owned...

Microsoft’s recent lifecycle clarification — that Microsoft Edge (and the WebView2 runtime) will continue to receive security and quality updates on Windows 10, version 22H2, well after the operating system itself reaches end-of-support — reshapes migration timelines for millions of users and...

As digital transformation accelerates across the education sector, organizations are under mounting pressure to ensure the security, compliance, and recoverability of their mission-critical data. The Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) system, which manages over 160 schools and tens of...

In the rapidly shifting terrain of enterprise security, the imperative for just-in-time (JIT) access has never been more pressing. As organizations contend with relentless waves of cyber threats—many of them leveraging tactics far beyond the reach of yesterday’s defenses—security leaders face a...

Druva’s recent announcement of expanded support for Microsoft Azure, detailed by SiliconANGLE, marks a significant evolution in cloud-native data protection. As workloads steadily migrate to the cloud and the risk landscape broadens, enterprise backup solutions must not only keep up but also...

Emergency Windows Update Resolves Critical Active Directory Audit Issue In a move that has caught the attention of IT administrators and cybersecurity professionals alike, Microsoft has rolled out an emergency update to address a longstanding Active Directory issue affecting local audit logon...