identity management

Microsoft’s cloud fabric faltered again this week as an Azure outage — traced to instability in Azure Front Door and a regional networking misconfiguration — produced widespread authentication failures and partial service blackouts that affected Microsoft 365, Teams, the Azure and Microsoft 365...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack was briefly knocked off balance on October 9, 2025, when an Azure Front Door (AFD) capacity failure interrupted sign-ins and access to Microsoft 365 services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, blocking administrators from the Microsoft 365 admin...

Microsoft corrected a potentially catastrophic identity flaw in Entra ID that could have allowed cross‑tenant impersonation of any user — including Global Administrators — by abusing undocumented internal tokens and a validation gap in a legacy API; the publicly tracked identifier for this issue...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and...

Grand Traverse County’s Board of Commissioners has approved a coordinated package of technology investments that pushes several core services toward vendor‑hosted cloud models, renews enterprise productivity licensing, and seeds a controlled pilot of generative AI — moves framed publicly as a...

Electronic health records (EHRs are now the operational heart of modern healthcare, but expanding clinician access without undermining patient safety demands a careful, risk-based redesign of identity, authentication, and access controls across people, devices, and applications. Background EHR...

Duo Directory Sync delivers a practical, one-way bridge from on-premises Active Directory into Duo by importing users, phones, groups and administrators via the Duo Authentication Proxy — but getting it right requires careful attention to authentication, transport security, proxy placement...

Azure’s new Agent Factory blueprint reframes trust as the primary design constraint for enterprise agents and presents Azure AI Foundry as a layered, identity‑first platform that combines identity, guardrails, continuous evaluation, and enterprise governance to keep agentic AI safe, auditable...

Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...

Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...

Workday and Microsoft quietly stitched together a practical bridge between identity, runtime, and business context for AI agents—an integration that promises to make digital workers first-class citizens in enterprise HR, finance, and security systems while raising new questions about governance...

Workday and Microsoft have announced a close technical alignment that will let AI “agents”—software entities built in Microsoft’s developer stack—receive directory-backed identities and be managed, governed, and audited inside Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), creating a single plane...

CVPeople Tanzania’s latest recruitment push — an advertised IT Airport Supervisor role alongside a coordinated intake of frontline technicians — confirms a visible expansion of on‑site IT capacity at Tanzania’s airports and signals an operational shift toward locally managed biometric and...

Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...

Microsoft’s operating system has always been a mix of pragmatic engineering, bold experiments, and occasional overreach — and some of its most interesting contributions were simply ahead of their time. A recent roundup of five Windows features — Briefcase, MSN Gaming Zone, Windows CardSpace...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has taken a decisive step toward finally letting organizations retire the last Exchange server in hybrid environments by adding cloud-managed remote mailbox support — a per-mailbox “flip-the-switch” that transfers Exchange attribute authority to Exchange Online while...

Zero-trust is not an add-on for AI pipelines — it must be baked into the fabric of how data, models and orchestration talk to one another. In a recent InfoWorld piece, the author laid out a metadata-driven, zero-trust MLOps reference architecture on Azure that combines Microsoft Entra ID, Azure...

CVPeople Tanzania’s recent IT Airport Supervisor recruitment notice doubles as a signal: Tanzania’s airports are deepening their commitment to on‑site technical teams to support biometric enrollment and immigration control systems, and the advertised role frames that expansion as both an...

TrustedTech’s pivot from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-service Microsoft-first systems integrator is more than a new logo — it is a deliberate repositioning into the fast-growing market for Microsoft Copilot enablement, Azure tenant migrations, managed security, and onshore certified...

Windows Hello, long touted as the seamless and secure future of biometric login for Windows users, now finds itself under intense scrutiny following a dramatic live demonstration at this year’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Two German researchers unveiled a critical vulnerability...