cloud security

Microsoft and Amazon certifications remain among the most practical credentials for IT professionals who want to prove they can operate in today’s cloud-first workplace. The Daijiworld piece is broadly right about the career value of Microsoft and AWS certifications, but the real story in 2026...

Overview Microsoft’s CVE-2026-23659 is labeled an Azure Data Factory Information Disclosure Vulnerability, and that alone is enough to put it on the radar of any team running cloud analytics pipelines at scale. The phrasing matters: information disclosure bugs do not always sound as dramatic as...

Microsoft’s CVE-2026-26139 entry for Microsoft Purview is a textbook example of how modern cloud-era vulnerability reporting can be both precise and intentionally sparse. The Security Update Guide classifies it as an Elevation of Privilege issue, but the publicly visible framing gives security...

Gartner’s warning that Microsoft 365 Copilot carries five specific security risks arrived as a stark reminder that the promise of embedded, enterprise-grade AI does not erase long‑standing data governance problems — it magnifies them. The research, published by Gartner in August 2025 and...

Upwind’s move into Azure — now available through the Microsoft Marketplace and positioned as a transactable, co‑sell-ready runtime security platform for Azure workloads — marks a significant signal in the CNAPP market: runtime visibility and prevention are shifting from niche add‑ons into...

DataBahn’s expanded integration with Microsoft Sentinel promises to push the painful work of security telemetry onboarding and cost control out of the SIEM and into a new, AI-driven ingestion layer — a move that could materially change how large organisations plan, deploy and operate cloud...

DataBahn’s newly announced deep integration with Microsoft Sentinel promises to collapse SIEM onboarding timeframes and materially lower analytics‑tier ingestion costs — claims that, if realized broadly, would change how security teams plan SIEM migrations and manage long‑term telemetry...

Microsoft’s security tracker lists CVE-2026-23660 as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in “Windows Admin Center in Azure Portal,” but public technical details are extremely limited and the entry currently carries a measured confidence statement rather than a full disclosure...

AvePoint has moved AgentPulse Command Center out of preview and into general availability, offering enterprises a single-pane view and lifecycle controls for AI agents across Microsoft 365 and Google Cloud — a direct response to the rising operational, security, and cost risks posed by unmanaged...

Seven days can save a birth certificate — and hand a nation a new set of strategic vulnerabilities. Background / Overview The last decade has rewritten what it means to defend a country. Modern statecraft now recognizes cyberspace as territory: a functional expanse where identity, property...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has assigned CVE‑2026‑21536 to a remote code execution (RCE) class vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Devices Pricing Program (the cloud-backed service used by Microsoft and authorized channel partners to manage device pricing and incentives). The...

Microsoft's advisory for CVE-2026-23651 describes a local elevation-of-privilege flaw in Azure Compute Gallery caused by a permissive regular expression used during input validation; an authenticated user with access to the affected component can craft input that bypasses intended checks and...

Microsoft’s framing of a single, unified security platform as the antidote to AI’s expanding attack surface is no longer rhetoric — it’s rapidly becoming product strategy, roadmap, and go‑to‑market reality for enterprise defenders. At a recent Microsoft AI‑focused event, senior product leaders...

Microsoft’s engineering team solved a deceptively hard problem: how to preserve absolute anonymity for sensitive employee groups while moving entirely to a cloud-first operating model—and to do it quickly, at enterprise scale, without adding new administrative burden. The result is a...

A crafty alteration to a VM disk header can make a guest VM read sensitive host files — that is the practical risk discovered in CVE-2026-27211, a high‑severity information‑disclosure flaw in Cloud Hypervisor that reintroduces a long‑standing class of image‑format parsing problems into modern...

OneDrive in 2026 is no longer just a cloud folder — it’s a full-featured file platform that blends traditional syncing, robust security, and AI-driven productivity into a single experience that lives in File Explorer, the web, and your pocket. This guide walks through practical setup tips for...

If you want to walk into a cloud engineer interview and leave the room with confidence, you must be able to do three things at once: explain core concepts crisply, demonstrate practical troubleshooting and migration experience, and show you understand security and trade‑offs at an architectural...

CrowdStrike and Microsoft have deepened a strategic tie that will let Azure customers buy the CrowdStrike Falcon platform directly through Microsoft Marketplace and apply those purchases against their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment, a move the vendors say will remove procurement...

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera italiana have published a sobering analysis showing that modern cloud-based password managers — the very tools many of us rely on to keep dozens or hundreds of unique credentials secure — are vulnerable to a family of practical...

A stack-based buffer overflow in QEMU’s virtio‑net implementation (CVE‑2023‑6693) has prompted a routine but important question from Azure customers: when Microsoft’s MSRC public advisory says “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected,” does that mean...