data security

Dell and Microsoft used the Microsoft Ignite stage to push a single, business‑critical message: cyber resilience must move from a checkbox to an operational practice, and the fastest route there is tighter product integration, automated recovery workflows, and cloud‑native protection that treats...

Cohesity’s newly publicized expansion with Microsoft marks a significant step in the industry's push to convert passive backup stores into AI-enabled security and compliance platforms, combining immutable recovery controls with generative-AI search and Azure-native tooling to speed ransomware...

Dell Technologies and Microsoft have taken their Azure collaboration to the next level, announcing a coordinated set of hybrid and multicloud solutions that combine Dell’s APEX and PowerScale storage portfolio with Microsoft Azure-native controls, expanded data protection services, and a...

Check Point Software’s announcement that it is teaming with Microsoft to deliver “enterprise‑grade AI security” for Microsoft Copilot Studio elevates runtime protection from a checkbox to a visible part of the agent development lifecycle, but the deal’s practical value will hinge on integration...

CData’s Connect AI is now available inside Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365, bringing a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform that promises real‑time, semantic‑rich access to hundreds of enterprise systems so AI agents can read, reason over, and act on live business data...

Microsoft’s Copilot Mode is now being positioned as an enterprise-ready, agentic layer for Edge for Business — a change that converts the browser from a passive rendering surface into a permissioned, action-taking assistant capable of reasoning across tabs, accessing enterprise data stores, and...

DBAN still works as a blunt, effective tool for wiping whole hard disks, but it’s important to understand what it does, what it cannot do, and the safer, modern alternatives for SSDs and compliance-sensitive scenarios. Background / Overview DBAN (Darik’s Boot And Nuke) has been a go‑to utility...

Excel can be brilliant — and brutally tedious — and the new generation of AI-for-Excel tools promises to turn hours of spreadsheet drudgery into minutes of insight and automation, but that promise comes with trade-offs: licensing, security, and the need for human validation. Background Excel...

Anita Kotwani’s departure from Dentsu, Marico’s Q2 advertising splurge, the ED’s multi-site action in the Lodha probe, and the formal terms set for India’s Data Protection Board together map a compact but revealing snapshot of Indian corporate governance, advertising economics, regulatory...

Royal Enfield’s Flying Flea EV debut, India’s newly finalised Data Protection Board rules, and Apple’s tightened App Store review language on AI data-sharing together signal a shifting landscape where product launches, regulatory control, and platform governance are colliding — and where...

India’s new Data Protection Board will be a compact, four-member adjudicatory body headquartered in New Delhi, and Brussels has launched a formal antitrust probe into Red Bull over suspected tactics to restrict the sale and visibility of rival energy drinks — two parallel enforcement moves that...

Microsoft Teams is now the hub for large swathes of everyday work — chat, meetings, file collaboration, and increasingly AI — but that convenience brings serious governance and compliance risk if left unmanaged. The nine “easy wins” that UC Today outlines are a practical baseline: align Teams...

BitLocker’s recovery screen is not a bug — it’s a last‑resort safety gate — but when it appears unexpectedly it can feel like a locked vault with no key; this in‑depth guide explains legitimate recovery options, what bypassing signals in practice, how to use supported tools (and when to avoid...

The legal function’s path from curiosity to disciplined experimentation with generative AI no longer depends on hope or hype — it depends on a repeatable operating model. Law360’s “5 Steps for GCs to Drive Generative AI Experimentation” lays out a pragmatic sequence for general counsel and legal...

AI is no longer an optional layer on top of enterprise systems — it is actively remaking the architecture, behavior, and business case for modern ERP, turning what used to be a passive transaction ledger into a continuous, predictive decision engine that can automate work, reduce cost, and...

The convergence of Microsoft SQL Server, Dell™ PowerEdge™ hardware, and Windows Server 2022 promises a practical, ship‑ready path to tighter end‑to‑end data protection — but the benefits come with important caveats. A recent industry write‑up and vendor‑commissioned testing argue that pairing...

Discord’s recent data-safety catastrophe — in which government IDs and age-verification images supplied by users were exposed after attackers compromised a third‑party support system — has ripped the thin veil off a problem every platform adopting the UK’s Online Safety Act must now confront...

The single sentence that should make every IT manager sit up: a misconfigured marketing mail-log database tied to Netcore Cloud Pvt. Ltd. sat publicly accessible and entirely unencrypted, exposing roughly 40 billion records (about 13.4 TB) of message metadata, transactional notices, and other...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists a “spoofing” class advisory tied to data‑sharing and assistant integrations, but the exact CVE identifier CVE‑2025‑59200 is not present in the set of vendor and community records available for review; the public record for Copilot‑ and...

The Austrian data protection authority has found that Microsoft’s widely used Microsoft 365 Education platform illegally tracked students, failed to provide full access to their personal data, and attempted to shift GDPR responsibilities onto schools and education authorities — a ruling that...