enterprise security

Microsoft’s flagship productivity AI for Microsoft 365 has a glaring privacy problem: for weeks a code error allowed Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails that organizations had explicitly labelled as confidential, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls and undermining a core tenant...

Ask an AI to build a ten‑slide deck for tomorrow’s client call and you’ll usually get something fast — but if the fonts drift, the logo slides, and each hue strays from your palette, you’ll spend the next hour undoing what the model did. The single most important technical question for...

Microsoft's latest Release Preview Channel rollup, KB5077241, quietly brings a practical mix of polish, new management hooks, and a handful of user-facing conveniences to Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 with build numbers 26100.7918 and 26200.7918. The package doesn’t reshape the platform, but...

In mixed-platform workplaces the ability to reach across the Windows–Mac divide without losing performance, keyboard fidelity, or security is no longer a convenience—it's a business requirement, and the right remote access strategy can make the difference between a seamless distributed workflow...

Microsoft has quietly folded a longtime defender's toolkit into the core of Windows 11: Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature in Insider Preview builds, and Build 28020.1611 (KB5077221) also brings a small but practical OneDrive sharing polish and a...

The UAE’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) has launched a formal R&D collaboration with Microsoft to design and prototype agentic AI systems for higher education — a coordinated effort to build four specialized AI agents that target career navigation, faculty course...

CISA’s catalog has just expanded again, and this time the additions hit the Windows stack: six Microsoft vulnerabilities — spanning Windows Shell, MSHTML, Office Word, Desktop Window Manager, Remote Access Connection Manager, and Remote Desktop Services — were added to the Known Exploited...

Microsoft’s recent changes have finally untangled one of Windows 11’s most persistent irritations: setting a third‑party browser as the operating system’s default is now far less painful than it was at launch, and regulatory pressure in Europe has pushed the company even further toward...

The arrival of AI agents inside enterprise environments has created a paradox for modern security teams: simultaneous promise and peril. Microsoft’s recent Cyber Pulse messaging and related security briefings argue that agentic AI—autonomous, tool-enabled assistants that can read, act, and...

Microsoft’s AI experiments have shifted a debated privacy trade-off from theory to practice: features like Windows Recall — designed to give Windows 11 a searchable “photographic memory” of your screen — have prompted privacy experts, independent developers, and regulators to ask whether the new...

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’s decision to fold Sysinternals’ long‑trusted System Monitor (Sysmon) into Windows 11 as an optional, in‑box capability marks one of the most consequential changes to Windows endpoint telemetry in years — it simplifies deployment, standardizes servicing, and shifts a staple security...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Agents in OneDrive, a feature that turns selected files and folders into a focused, shareable Copilot-powered assistant — saved as a .agent file — and positions OneDrive as a place not just for storage, but for context-aware, project-centric AI assistance...

Microsoft has quietly begun shipping Sysmon — the high‑fidelity System Monitor from Microsoft Sysinternals — as a native, optional feature inside Windows 11 Insider preview builds, signaling a major shift in how organizations will collect host telemetry going forward. The capability is delivered...

Microsoft’s leadership shuffle that places Charlie Bell in a dedicated engineering-quality role and brings Hayete Gallot back to head security is more than a personnel move — it’s a public acknowledgment that product quality and security are now formal, linked priorities at the very top of the...

Microsoft has begun shipping native System Monitor (Sysmon) functionality inside Windows 11 preview builds, delivering the high-fidelity telemetry defenders have relied on for years as an optional, in‑box capability that administrators can enable from Settings or by using DISM and the familiar...

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 has begun shipping a native, optional implementation of Sysmon inside Windows 11 Insider preview builds — a change that promises to simplify deployment, bring Sysmon telemetry into the Windows servicing model, and shift how enterprise defenders collect host-level event signals...

Microsoft has quietly folded Sysmon — the long-favored Sysinternals system-monitoring tool — into Windows 11 as an optional, inbox feature, delivering it through Insider preview builds and the Windows servicing pipeline rather than as a separate Sysinternals download. That change, which appears...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment on the margins of the productivity stack — multiple large pilots and vendor analyses now conclude that targeted Copilot use can reclaim measurable hours from busy work, with many users reporting roughly 2–4 hours saved per week when the assistant is...