cloud security

Microsoft has quietly moved a critical enforcement point for enterprise AI agents from after-the-fact logging into the live execution path: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime monitoring that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors — Microsoft...

Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets security teams intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block the actions autonomous agents plan to take as they run, bringing step‑level policy decisioning into the live execution loop for Power Platform...

Microsoft has quietly but meaningfully shifted the balance of power between autonomous AI agents and enterprise defenders: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitors (Microsoft Defender...

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...

Former Parallo engineers Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow and Jay Strydom have quietly reassembled to launch Spotto.ai, an AI-native Azure cloud optimisation platform aimed squarely at MSPs and SaaS teams wrestling with runaway cloud bills and fragmented operations. (reseller.co.nz, spotto.app)...

Microsoft has published an advisory for an information‑disclosure flaw affecting Dynamics 365 FastTrack Implementation Assets that can allow an attacker to disclose private personal information over a network — but the public record and vendor sources show a mismatch in the CVE identifier, so...

Note: I tried to open the MSRC link you gave . I could not find any published advisory or public record for CVE‑2025‑55244 on Microsoft’s Update Guide or the major CVE/NVD indexes. Instead, Microsoft’s published Azure Bot Framework / Azure Bot Service elevation‑of‑privilege advisories are...

Microsoft has quietly made one of the most practical security upgrades for Azure virtual infrastructure far easier to adopt: Trusted Launch can now be enabled in-place for many existing VMs and scale sets, reducing the migration friction that has kept foundational boot security from reaching...

A publicly exposed appsettings.json file that contained Azure Active Directory application credentials has created a direct, programmatic attack path into affected tenants — a misconfiguration that can let attackers exchange leaked ClientId/ClientSecret pairs for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and then...

Google Drive is incredibly convenient—powerful file syncing, real-time collaboration, and tight integration with Gmail and Google Workspace—but that ease of use can quickly turn into a privacy hazard if sharing and account controls are left on autopilot. A short security sweep right now can...

Microsoft’s offer to make Copilot available at no charge to U.S. government workers marks a significant shift in how enterprise AI is being positioned for public-sector users, promising quick adoption benefits while raising immediate questions about procurement, security, and long-term costs...

Two parallel announcements from Meta and Microsoft this week — a patched zero-click vulnerability in WhatsApp and a timetable for mandatory multi-factor authentication across Azure — crystallise a single lesson for enterprise security teams: convenience is no longer an acceptable substitute for...

Borderless CS’s launch of IT Hardening Expert Services arrives at a moment when simple misconfigurations and unmaintained defaults are repeatedly exposed as the weakest links in enterprise security, and the firm is pitching a pragmatic, standards-aligned program to shrink attack surfaces across...

Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted this week after a small group of protesters — including two current employees — forced their way into the executive suite and briefly occupied the office of company vice chair and president Brad Smith, an escalation that ended in arrests and immediate...

Life Without Barriers’ recent security refresh shows how human‑services organisations can use integrated Microsoft tooling to both reduce risk and free frontline staff for the work that matters. Background / Overview Life Without Barriers (LWB), one of Australia’s largest human‑services...

The Indian government’s cybersecurity arm has issued a high-severity alert advising organisations and individuals to urgently address a batch of patched—but still dangerous—vulnerabilities across multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Server storage...

Atturra’s rise through Microsoft’s partner ranks has been rapid and highly visible, with multiple outlets reporting that the Australian integrator has secured a significant new recognition in the hybrid and private cloud space — a development that, if fully verified, would strengthen its...

Microsoft president Brad Smith’s compact public line — “some of what was reported needs to be tested” — is the latest punctuation in a rapidly escalating crisis for Azure, Microsoft’s relationships with the Israeli security establishment, and the cloud industry’s role in wartime intelligence and...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

Microsoft’s cloud team has quietly re-architected the silicon under Azure to treat nearly every element of a server as a discrete security boundary — and it's shipping that architecture at scale across new servers this year and into 2025. What started as a collection of academic and hyperscaler...