data security

Cabonne Council’s draft guidelines for generative AI mark a cautious, pragmatic step: allow staff to use tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini for productivity gains — but only with human sign-off, disclosure and strict privacy controls in place. Background Local governments...

PAGCOR’s recent agency-wide Copilot masterclass framed AI not as a silver-bullet productivity hack but as an organisational change problem that must be married to governance, data protection and enforceable admin controls. Background / Overview In a virtual session delivered during Development...

PAGCOR’s agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot on 30 September represented a decisive, education-first pivot: teach staff how to use AI assistants for routine productivity while making governance, data protection and human oversight non‑negotiable features of any rollout. The online...

PAGCOR’s recent, agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a clear pivot: harness the measurable productivity gains of generative AI while making accountability, data protection and governance the non-negotiable centrepieces of any rollout. Background / Overview The Philippine...

PAGCOR’s recent, agency‑wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a deliberate move: the regulator is not only experimenting with generative AI for productivity gains but is explicitly trying to frame that experimentation inside governance, data protection and operational controls before...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot is a pragmatic first step in a delicate balancing act: harnessing AI for productivity while protecting highly sensitive regulatory and player data in a tightly regulated industry. The online...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot represents a pragmatic, low-friction approach to bringing generative AI into a high-risk public-sector workplace — one that balances productivity gains with governance controls, but which also...

A sweeping industry analysis released this month warns that Microsoft’s Copilot — the productivity AI now embedded across Microsoft 365 — is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive corporate data than many IT teams realize, with one vendor-backed study reporting nearly three million...

EaseUS’s appointment of Avert IT Distribution as its official distributor in Africa is a strategic move that brings one of the world’s best‑known data‑protection vendors closer to local channels and customers, promising faster procurement, regional support and licensing models adapted to African...

iboss Platform Release 10.4: what the announcement means for Zero Trust SASE and enterprise data protection On September 29, 2025, industry coverage reported that iboss rolled out “Platform Release 10.4,” positioning the update as a material step forward for its Zero Trust SASE platform with a...

Proofpoint’s latest product wave is a direct answer to a single, urgent reality: work is no longer only human-to-human, and security must expand to protect people and the AI agents they now rely on. The company announced four major innovations at Proofpoint Protect 2025 that together aim to...

Canadian offices have crossed an inflection point: roughly half of office employees now report using AI tools at work — but a large share are doing it without clear employer guidance, approved platforms, or formal training, leaving employers exposed to data, legal and reputational risk while...

Lenovo’s latest SMB-focused infrastructure bundles promise to simplify on-premises modernization while making AI-ready infrastructure for SMBs more accessible — but the reality for small teams depends on careful trade-offs between convenience, cost, and long-term flexibility. Overview Lenovo...

When Varonis field CTO Brian Vecci quipped that “every copilot pilot gets stuck in pilot” at a Fortune Brainstorm Tech panel, the laughter in the room masked a sharper truth: organizations desperate to extract business value from generative AI are repeatedly hitting the same barrier — data...

Google has quietly — and decisively — converted Chrome from a passive window onto the web into an AI-powered browsing platform by embedding Gemini throughout the browser, adding a Gemini toolbar button, an AI Mode in the omnibox, and the groundwork for agentic automation that can act on users’...

Microsoft is expanding the reach of AI inside Teams with a public preview of Project Manager agent skills that aim to turn meeting chatter and channel conversations into tracked, actionable work — but the feature brings licensing, governance, and operational caveats that IT teams must weigh...

The U.S. House of Representatives has moved from prohibition to experimentation with generative AI: leadership announced a managed, year‑long pilot that will place Microsoft’s Copilot assistant inside House systems and issue up to 6,000 one‑year licenses to staff—an institutional test with...

Steam will stop supporting Windows 32‑bit installations on January 1, 2026, a move that, if confirmed and implemented as reported, will leave the vanishingly small number of users still running Windows 10 in its 32‑bit form without client updates, security fixes, or official Steam Support help —...

AI upskilling has moved from an HR talking point to a workplace imperative as employees across industries race to learn generative AI tools, enterprise copilots, and the human skills needed to use them responsibly. Background The latest industry data shows a striking surge in demand for...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...