identity security

For Microsoft, the quest for a secure digital future isn’t just a poster in the break room or a feel-good mantra recited at quarterly all-hands meetings—it’s an obsession, a juggernaut of an engineering exercise, and an ever-evolving global chess match with adversaries whose job descriptions...

The shimmering screens of the modern workplace glow a little brighter today, not simply with emails, spreadsheets, or infinite Teams notifications, but with the promise of a more secure digital tomorrow—at least, if Microsoft has its way. In an era where cyber threats lurk in every shadowy...

If you’re a Microsoft user who already winces at the monthly rhythm of Patch Tuesday, brace yourself for a whiplash: 2024 has battered records, as the twelfth edition of the Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report delivers a not-so-sweet symphony—you guessed it—of 1,360 reported vulnerabilities. That’s...

North winds carry more than just Poland’s infamous cold: as March 2025 would have it, they swept in a fresh surge of NTLM hash theft, thrusting CVE-2025-24054 into the glaring spotlight of cybersecurity’s main stage. Weeks before most CIOs had even had their coffee, threat actors were already...

Record-Breaking Microsoft Vulnerabilities: The State of Digital Risk in 2024 The Microsoft Security Paradox: More Defenses, More Vulnerabilities In a world where our digital existence is increasingly entangled with complex software, even technology giants like Microsoft are not immune to a...

Microsoft Vulnerabilities in 2024: A Record-Breaking Year and What It Means for Users and Enterprises As the digital world continues to expand, the software that powers our daily lives grows increasingly complex—and so do its vulnerabilities. In 2024, Microsoft, a cornerstone of global computing...

Microsoft Vulnerabilities in 2024: A Deep Dive into the Record-Breaking Security Landscape The digital world continues to witness an unrelenting surge in cybersecurity threats, and the 12th Annual BeyondTrust Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report for 2024 has just raised the alarm louder than ever...

Microsoft Defender for Identity is stepping up its game by integrating with leading Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions—a move that promises significant strides in enhancing security around privileged accounts. In today’s cybersecurity landscape, where threats often target accounts with...

Innovative Phishing Tactics Threaten Critical Infrastructure Russian state-backed APT group Storm-2372 has triggered a new alarm in the cybersecurity community by leveraging an ingenious form of device code phishing to sidestep multi-factor authentication (MFA). This sophisticated attack...

The rapid evolution of cloud environments and an explosion of both human and machine identities have compelled enterprises to reevaluate how they secure access to their critical resources. With Microsoft Entra Permissions Management set to retire on October 1, 2025, a fresh chapter in cloud...

In a bid to raise the bar on identity security, Microsoft is rolling out new, automatically deployed policies targeting a growing vulnerability: Device Code Flow attacks. Featured in the latest edition of Entra 🆔 News (#85), these updates mark another significant step in Microsoft’s ongoing...

In an era where digital transformation is paramount, k9 Security is making waves in the cloud security arena with its latest release: the Access Analyzer for Azure. This innovative solution aims to tackle the complex world of identity security and access governance, specifically for Microsoft...