cloud security

Microsoft said on May 5, 2026, that 11 papers by its researchers and collaborators were accepted at NSDI ’26, the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation taking place May 4–6 in Renton, Washington. The announcement is not merely academic bragging rights. It is a map of...

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification is an expert-level credential for developers and infrastructure administrators who pass Exam AZ-400 after earning an Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Developer Associate certification, with the exam’s English skills outline updated on...

Microsoft’s public tracking for CVE-2026-21515 places an Azure IoT Central elevation-of-privilege issue on the board, but the disclosure language also makes clear that the entry is more than a simple “there’s a bug” notice. The severity guidance you quoted is really Microsoft’s way of saying how...

Microsoft’s CVE-2026-32210 advisory for Dynamics 365 (online) is a reminder that even mature cloud business platforms can still be exposed to spoofing risks that are more about trust than raw technical exploitation. The Security Update Guide’s description centers on confidence in the...

Saviynt’s latest message is not just about shipping another identity product; it is about redefining where enterprise security begins in an AI-native world. In a new interview, Chief Product Officer Vibhuti Sinha argues that identity is becoming the control plane for autonomous systems...

Microsoft’s Azure Monitor Agent vulnerability record for CVE-2026-32192 is a reminder that not every security advisory arrives with a full technical map attached. The core signal here is the confidence metric Microsoft uses to indicate how certain it is that the flaw exists and how credible the...

The Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) has landed on Microsoft’s security radar again, this time through CVE-2026-32168, an Elevation of Privilege issue that MSRC says should be evaluated using the “degree of confidence” metric attached to the vulnerability entry. That framing matters because it tells...

Microsoft’s SC-900 certification has become one of the clearest on-ramps into the modern security stack because it teaches the language of security, compliance, and identity before learners ever have to wrestle with advanced administration. For beginners, that matters: the exam is explicitly...

As organisations accelerate their digital transformation journeys, cloud adoption has become central to agility, innovation and scale. But as workloads move beyond traditional data centres into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the attack surface expands and cybersecurity complexity...

Federal agencies are not short on cloud ambition, but many are still short on the Azure expertise needed to turn that ambition into durable capability. The result is a familiar federal pattern: big modernization goals, limited specialized talent, and an uncomfortable reliance on a small number...

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...