endpoint security

CrowdStrike and Microsoft have deepened a strategic tie that will let Azure customers buy the CrowdStrike Falcon platform directly through Microsoft Marketplace and apply those purchases against their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment, a move the vendors say will remove procurement...

I stopped relying on a third‑party antivirus suite and leaned on Microsoft Defender’s behavior‑monitoring features instead — the change wasn’t just about trimming bloat, it was about shifting to a real‑time, behavior‑centric defense model that’s built into Windows and powered by cloud...

Microsoft’s quiet pruning of Windows’ optional components has accelerated into a visible change in how the operating system presents and manages what stays and what goes, and the consequences go far beyond a few removed checkboxes in Settings. Over the past two years Microsoft has moved from...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of the security community’s most trusted tools out of the Sysinternals download bucket and into Windows itself, delivering native Sysmon functionality as an optional Windows 11 feature that can be enabled, updated, and (crucially) supported through Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has quietly moved Sysinternals’ Sysmon from a community-distributed add-on into Windows itself, making Sysmon functionality an optional, inbox Windows feature that administrators can enable from Settings or via DISM/PowerShell and manage through the Windows servicing pipeline...

Microsoft’s Technical Takeoff returns in March 2026 with a concentrated, engineering‑led lineup aimed squarely at Windows, Windows‑in‑the‑cloud, and endpoint management teams—and for IT pros who manage Windows 11, Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop or Intune, the four Mondays of deep dives are...

Microsoft’s terse advisory for CVE-2026-20852 — described as a Windows Hello tampering vulnerability that “allows an unauthorized attacker to perform tampering locally” — should push security teams to treat biometric-signin integrity as a high-priority operational risk, even while authoritative...

Microsoft’s latest Insider build gives administrators a supported, one‑time way to uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the control is deliberately narrow, gated by strict conditions, and not a fleet‑wide “kill switch,” which means durable removal...

Heneways Freight Services has moved from brittle, location-bound IT to a cloud-first workforce by deploying Windows 365 Cloud PCs and Microsoft’s new purpose-built device, Windows 365 Link, managed through Microsoft Intune, a shift the company says cut user-experience tickets by up to 90% and IT...

A surprisingly simple, little-known way to power off Windows has resurfaced in discussions across the web: a built-in "slide to shut down" utility and a set of keyboard and command-line tricks that let you shut down a PC faster — and sometimes, more dangerously — than the Start menu ever...

Microsoft has quietly fixed a major usability pain in Windows 11’s Smart App Control by making the feature toggleable in preview builds — meaning you can now flip SAC on and off from Windows Security without having to perform a full OS reset or clean reinstall. Background Smart App Control (SAC)...

Microsoft’s blunt reminder landed like a splash of cold water for IT teams: unmanaged, forgotten, or otherwise overlooked devices are not just an operational nuisance — they are a favoured pathway for attackers that can turn a single weak endpoint into a full-blown ransomware crisis. Microsoft’s...

The new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) report inside Windows Autopatch gives security teams a long‑needed, device‑level view of which Windows CVEs have been fixed by recent quality updates and — crucially — which managed endpoints remain exposed. Background Enterprises face an...

Microsoft quietly acknowledged what security researchers have been warning about: the new experimental “agentic” layer in Windows 11—the set of background AI agents that can act on a user’s behalf—can hallucinate and create real, novel security risks, including the ability for malicious content...

Microsoft is rolling out a focused performance change to the Microsoft Teams Desktop Client on Windows that isolates call handling into a new, dedicated child process — ms-teams_modulehost.exe — promising faster call startup, better fault isolation, and clearer resource control while leaving the...

A MakeUseOf writer’s deliberate experiment — uninstalling every third‑party antivirus on a Windows PC and relying solely on Microsoft Defender — produced a counterintuitive result: faster boot times, lower idle resource use, fewer nuisance alerts and no obvious infections during the test period...

Microsoft’s rollout of Copilot Actions for Windows 11 — an experimental agentic feature that lets AI act on a user’s behalf to organize files, send emails, fill forms and automate multi‑step desktop tasks — has thrust a new class of security questions into the mainstream. The preview is being...

Microsoft’s recent security push for Windows 11 stitches together long‑running platform hardening with a clear push toward crypto‑agility, improved telemetry for defenders, and tighter controls over drivers, apps and networking — a package aimed at reducing catastrophic outages while preparing...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 opened as an unmistakable signal: Microsoft is making a full-court press to turn its AI and cloud investments into partner-ready products and enterprise-grade security controls — and that push is reshaping the partner program, licensing, and Windows security posture in ways...

Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2025-62216 describes a Microsoft Office vulnerability that can result in remote code execution when a crafted Office document is processed on an endpoint — a serious finding that demands immediate, prioritized mitigation across both corporate and consumer...