data compliance

School and district leaders can make an outsized difference in 2026 by becoming deliberate, governance‑minded power users of AI — and that starts with a small set of high‑leverage prompts that map directly to strategy, operations, communications, budgets and outreach. Background The rapid spread...

Tenable’s controlled jailbreak of a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent has laid bare a clear, present danger: no-code AI agents — the “digital employees” proliferating inside enterprises — can be manipulated to deliver both data theft and direct financial fraud. In a deliberately scoped...

Microsoft Copilot now speaks fashion: with a new integration powered by Curated for You, users can ask natural-language questions like “What should I wear to a beach wedding?” and receive context-aware, shoppable outfit recommendations inside the Copilot interface. Background Microsoft’s...

Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...

Microsoft is putting a second line of defense around AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports advanced near‑real‑time protection during agent runtime, a public‑preview capability that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitoring systems — including Microsoft...

Microsoft’s recent quiet fix to an M365 Copilot logging gap has opened a new debate over cloud transparency, audit integrity, and how enterprise defenders should respond when a vendor patches a service-side flaw without issuing a public advisory. Security researchers say a trivial prompt...

AI browser assistants are quietly sweeping up private, sensitive information from pages users assume are off-limits — including medical records, bank details, academic transcripts, and even social security numbers — according to a new cross‑national audit of the most popular generative-AI...

A new era of cyber resilience for Microsoft 365 has arrived as Rubrik and Sophos announce a landmark partnership designed to redefine how organizations protect, recover, and govern their cloud data assets. By bringing together Rubrik’s advanced data security and recovery capabilities with...

A seismic shift is underway for millions of Microsoft customers worldwide, one that goes far beyond the much-publicized end of Windows 10 support. October 14, 2025, stands as a hard deadline in the tech giant's calendar—not only for its ever-present operating system but also for a suite of...

Purdue University Northwest (PNW) has announced the implementation of "Sensitive" and "Restricted" labels within Microsoft 365, effective July 25, 2025. This initiative is a significant step in the university's ongoing efforts to enhance data security and compliance by facilitating the approved...

RiverMeadow Software has recently announced enhanced support for AWS Outposts, enabling organizations to securely migrate and modernize on-premises workloads onto AWS-managed infrastructure. This development addresses the growing need for businesses to transition away from legacy platforms like...

In a recent testimony before the French Senate, Anton Carniaux, Legal Director of Microsoft France, acknowledged that Microsoft cannot guarantee that European user data is immune from access by U.S. authorities, even when stored within the European Union. This admission underscores the complex...

Cohesity's recent integration of its AI-powered search assistant, Gaia, with Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a significant advancement in enterprise data accessibility. This collaboration enables users to perform AI-driven searches across archived emails, documents, and spreadsheets directly within...

Microsoft Purview, a comprehensive data governance and compliance solution, has recently been identified as vulnerable to an elevation of privilege issue, cataloged as CVE-2025-53762. This vulnerability arises from a permissive list of allowed inputs, enabling authorized attackers to escalate...

Cohesity's recent integration of its AI-powered search assistant, Gaia, with Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a significant advancement in enterprise data accessibility and utilization. This collaboration enables knowledge workers to seamlessly query and extract insights from backup data directly...

The race to unlock actionable insights from the troves of organizational data has always been fraught with complexity, cost, and risk. Yet with the announcement of Cohesity Gaia’s integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, this paradigm is shifting dramatically, promising to empower enterprises...

Cohesity's latest move to integrate its AI-powered enterprise search assistant, Gaia, into Microsoft 365 Copilot represents a significant development at the intersection of cloud data security, artificial intelligence, and business productivity tools. As the demands on modern enterprises to both...

As SQL Server 2016 approaches its end of support on July 14, 2026, organizations running mission-critical workloads on this version find themselves at a pivotal crossroads. The decade-long lifecycle has been marked by reliable performance, rich features, and high adoption, but the looming...

When the worlds of big data analytics and cloud-based AI platforms converge, both opportunities and challenges emerge for enterprises determined to extract maximum value from their ever-expanding digital estates. The collaboration between Microsoft and Databricks—manifesting most recently in the...

Zilliz’s latest expansion into Azure Central India marks a significant milestone in the global evolution of cloud-native vector databases. As the technological race for fast, scalable, and compliant AI data infrastructure intensifies, Zilliz is making headlines with its strategic infrastructure...