enterprise security

Microsoft’s latest pivot on Windows 11 AI — a new, system-level prompt that will ask for explicit consent before any AI-powered agent accesses your personal files — is a meaningful course correction that addresses the most visible privacy complaint about agentic features, but it is not a...

Mustafa Suleyman’s plainspoken stewardship of Microsoft’s AI effort is increasingly the story the company needs right now: while Copilot — Microsoft’s ambitious, deeply integrated assistant across Windows, Office, Edge and more — struggles to shake off skepticism and deployment friction...

NinjaTech AI’s announcement that it has joined the Linux Foundation’s newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver member is a practical footnote in a much larger industry pivot: three working, production-oriented artifacts—Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose...

Microsoft’s latest internal analysis paints Copilot not just as a workplace utility but as a companion that morphs through the day—taskmaster by morning, collaborator by afternoon, and confidant by night—based on a study of 37.5 million anonymized conversations that maps topic, device and...

Anthropic’s donation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to a new, Linux Foundation–backed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) marks a coordinated industry push to wire AI agents into the same kind of open, interoperable plumbing that made the web scale — and it forces enterprise IT teams to confront...

Microsoft’s 25H2 update for Windows 11 lands as a pragmatic, security‑first and AI‑infused refinement rather than a dramatic visual overhaul, but its real significance lies in how Microsoft rewired the platform: faster installs via an enablement package, deeper Copilot integration across core...

The cybersecurity community has reached a rare, consensus-sounding alarm: AI-powered browsers — the new generation of agentic, LLM-driven web clients — introduce a novel attack surface that many organizations should treat as unacceptable risk today, with leading advisory firms and government...

Microsoft has begun quietly threading the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into Windows 11, shipping a public preview of native MCP support to Windows Insiders in build 26220.7344 — a move that turns a long-theorized “agentic OS” from concept toward real‑world testing. The release includes two...

Organisations facing the end of Windows 10 support now have a clear, pragmatic option to protect operations and buy time for thoughtful hardware refreshes: virtualisation — used strategically — can deliver centrally managed Windows 11 experiences to legacy devices while teams plan and execute...

Check Point’s November announcement that it will embed runtime AI guardrails, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Threat Prevention into Microsoft Copilot Studio marks a clear strategic push to make the vendor a visible player in the emergent market for enterprise AI security—and it’s a development...

Windows 11’s 25H2 update is less a headline-grabbing reboot and more a deliberate refocusing of the operating system into an intelligent, continuously evolving platform—one that threads generative AI, tighter hardware requirements for advanced on‑device models, and practical reliability and...

Microsoft’s latest agentic push for Windows 11 has a stark, unusually candid caveat: enable the new AI agent features only if you understand the security implications, because a compromised or manipulated agent can be coerced into doing harmful things — including downloading or installing...

Windows users across the UK and beyond have been told to "make a change or risk exposure" after consumer groups and security agencies issued blunt warnings about the growing danger of running unsupported or unpatched Windows installations — advice that, in some cases, explicitly recommends...

Microsoft’s Teams updates at Ignite 2025 were less a scattershot of features and more a coordinated push toward an agentic, multi-model collaboration platform — a shift that touches UI, governance, security, and the devices people use every day. The announcements break cleanly into four...

Microsoft 365 Copilot promises a productivity leap, but it also forces IT teams to reconcile powerful generative AI with real-world compliance, privacy and security obligations before the first pilot expands beyond a handful of trusted users. The architecture that makes Copilot...

Check Point and Microsoft announced a collaboration this week to embed enterprise-grade AI security directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio, promising continuous runtime protection, DLP, and threat prevention for AI agents built and deployed on the platform. Background The announcement —...

Microsoft is shipping System Monitor (Sysmon) functionality as a built‑in Windows capability next year, moving the venerable Sysinternals monitoring tool from a standalone download into the Windows servicing pipeline and official support surface — a shift that promises easier deployment...

Microsoft’s Ignite demo this week did more than announce new features — it laid out an explicit plan to transform Windows 11 from a platform that runs applications into an operating system that hosts autonomous AI agents, with built-in discovery, permissioning, and containment primitives...

Microsoft’s AI chief publicly blasted what he called a tide of “cynics” after a wave of user backlash over Microsoft’s AI direction for Windows 11, arguing that seeing advanced conversational and generative AI as “underwhelming” is astonishing — even as the company faces mounting questions about...

Microsoft’s own documentation and public blog posts now explicitly warn that the new “agentic” capabilities in Windows 11—previewed to Insiders as Copilot Actions and the Agent Workspace—introduce novel security risks that change the endpoint threat model and require new operational controls...