data protection

Microsoft’s flagship workplace assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, briefly read and summarized email messages that organizations had explicitly labeled Confidential, a logic error the company logged internally as service advisory CW1226324 and that has forced a re‑examination of how embedded...

People often treat ChatGPT and its peers like private assistants — but when you type, upload, or speak sensitive material into a chatbot, you may be handing away control of that information in ways most users don’t expect. The short list published by mainstream outlets — identity documents...

AvePoint’s evolution from a Microsoft‑centric migration and protection vendor into an AI‑aware data governance platform makes it an obvious candidate for attention in 2026 — and not just because short‑term market dynamics favor growthy SaaS names. Recent product moves that put AI adoption...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio now offers xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast in preview, opening a new lane in the multi‑model ecosystem for enterprise agent builders. The addition—available today in early access environments for United States‑based makers and off by default until an organization administrator...

Enterprise IT is hurtling toward an inflection point where AI is no longer an optional productivity layer but a persistent, machine‑speed conduit for both business value and cyber risk—and the latest ThreatLabz analysis from Zscaler makes that danger unmistakably clear. Released January 27...

Capita’s decision to put Microsoft Copilot at the front line of its recovery plan for the Civil Service Pension Scheme is a striking gamble: it promises faster triage, automated summarisation and smarter prioritisation for an inherited backlog that has already created real hardship for retired...

Corrections has quietly moved from piloting generative tools to policing them: after a small number of staff were found to have used Microsoft Copilot Chat to help draft formal casework — including Extended Supervision Order reports — the department has labelled that behaviour “unacceptable,”...

Most social workers now describe their early experience of artificial intelligence as a practical relief rather than a dystopian threat: a Community Care poll reported that the majority of practitioners who have trialled AI tools for administrative tasks rate the experience positively, and...

Microsoft’s latest AI push for Windows has reopened a debate that security teams, privacy advocates and everyday users have been quietly wrestling with for years: how much convenience do we hand to an operating system before we lose control of our own data? Recent coverage from independent...

Microsofts Copilot steht erneut im Zentrum einer Datenschutzdebatte: Während Sicherheitsforscher eine „Reprompt“-Schwachstelle enthüllten, die mit einem einzigen Klick sensible Nutzerdaten aus Copilot Personal auslesen konnte, berichten Nutzer der mobilen Copilot‑App von unerwarteten...

BonfyAI’s short, free Microsoft Copilot Risk Assessment is the latest example of a new breed of security-first offerings that aim to convert rising enterprise anxiety about generative AI into a predictable pipeline of CISO conversations and paid services. Background / Overview Microsoft’s...

Three years after the shockwaves that followed ChatGPT’s debut, AI agents have moved from curiosities into core business infrastructure — and that shift demands a practical, security-first playbook for every IT team, compliance officer and Windows admin who plans to let agents touch corporate...

Microsoft Copilot can be a genuine productivity multiplier — and also a surprising privacy risk if you accept defaults without looking. PCMag’s hands‑on checklist of “7 settings I changed right away to protect my privacy” is an excellent quick-start for anyone who wants the benefits of an...

Set Up Windows 10/11 Storage Spaces (Mirror) to Protect Data on Two Drives Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 30 minutes Storage Spaces is a built-in Windows 10/11 feature that can combine multiple physical drives into a “pool,” then create a virtual drive (a storage space) on top of it...

At the start of 2026 Austria’s data protection authority (DSB) ordered Microsoft to stop deploying certain tracking cookies on a school‑issued device after finding the cookies were placed without a valid legal basis while a pupil used Microsoft 365 Education — a ruling that threads technical...

Qatar’s public sector quietly accelerated its AI agenda this week with two complementary moves: the Ministry of Education and Higher Education ran an introductory, hands‑on workshop to place Microsoft’s Copilot tools into the daily workflows of ministry directors and department heads, while the...

Organizations across Mexico and the United States are increasingly recognizing that true cyber resilience is not a product you can buy off a shelf but an engineered outcome achieved through an integrated, multi-layer defense-in-depth architecture that combines native cloud protections...

A new, deceptively simple attack named “Reprompt” has exposed a critical weakness in Microsoft Copilot Personal: with a single click on a legitimate Copilot deep link an attacker could, under the right conditions, mount a multistage, stealthy data‑exfiltration chain that pulls names, locations...