identity security

Microsoft’s playbook for helping startups move from MVP to mission-critical enterprise software boils down to one simple truth: features are table stakes; trust is the currency that closes large deals. The company’s recent guidance frames enterprise readiness as a composite discipline built on...

Conditional Access in large tenants is often a map of good intentions and accidental complexity, and idPowerApp promises to redraw that map into clear, printable slides so teams can see, reason about, and remediate policy interactions at a glance. Overview Conditional Access (CA) is one of the...

Google’s long-standing rule — that a primary @gmail.com address is effectively permanent — is finally being loosened: users are being given a way to replace their primary Gmail handle with a new @gmail.com address while keeping the same Google Account, data, inbox and sign-in continuity...

Microsoft’s prediction that 2026 will be the year “AI becomes a human partner, not just a tool” crystallizes a shift that’s already visible across research labs, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms and healthcare pilots — and it challenges IT professionals, enterprise architects, and...

Microsoft’s Baseline Security Mode introduces a single, opt‑in “secure‑by‑default” posture for Microsoft 365 that packages identity hardening, file‑safety controls, and meeting‑room device protections into a single, admin‑facing experience — and it arrives with simulation tools and telemetry to...

Arctera’s latest maintenance refresh, Backup Exec 25.1, arrives as a focused, practical upgrade that treats identity protection, Microsoft 365 resilience and ransomware-hardened storage as first-class concerns — not optional extras. The release tightens integration between identity and data...

Microsoft’s Copilot and several related services were knocked offline for many users during a major cloud outage that struck Microsoft’s global edge fabric, producing widespread sign‑in failures, blank admin consoles, and degraded Copilot file actions — an incident that underlines both the power...

Microsoft’s latest push to embed third‑party defenses directly into Microsoft Entra marks a pragmatic shift: identity protection is no longer just about adding conditional access or MFA — it’s about delivering layered, partner‑driven defenses at the points where attackers interact with...

Idemia Public Security’s elevation to a Microsoft Entra Verified ID launch partner marks a deliberate step in the identity industry's pivot from brittle, password-centric workflows to cryptographically anchored, verification-driven credentials—and the move highlights both immediate operational...

On October 29, 2025, a configuration error inside Microsoft’s global edge fabric sent a shockwave through the internet: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox Live and dozens of third‑party customer sites — from Starbucks and Kroger to airlines and airport systems — suffered hours‑long...

APAC enterprises are accelerating AI adoption while confronting a new security reality: agentic AI — autonomous software agents that act, decide, and access systems without constant human supervision — is expanding attack surfaces and exposing identity, credential, and data-exfiltration risks...

Quest’s product update at Microsoft Ignite 2025 marks a clear push to put generative AI into the middle of identity security for hybrid Microsoft estates — adding AI-written risk summaries, a Security Guardian Agent for Microsoft Security Copilot, workload‑identity coverage for Entra ID, and a...

Quest’s latest update to Security Guardian and its wider AI-enabled push for identity and data tooling mark a notable escalation in the vendor’s Microsoft-aligned strategy — one that promises faster, AI-guided identity threat detection and a single-console approach to migration, audit, and...

Rubrik’s Agent Cloud integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio signals the arrival of a practical control plane for the fast-growing—but still immature—world of enterprise AI agents, promising automated discovery, real-time governance and a novel “selective rewind” remediation capability that...

Microsoft’s new Agent 365 promises to make the chaotic growth of enterprise AI agents visible, controllable and — critically — governable, bundling identity, telemetry and security controls into a single admin surface that treats agents like first‑class members of the workforce. Background and...

RSA’s new RSA ID Plus for Microsoft lineup — anchored by the RSA ID Plus M1 SKU now generally available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace — is a deliberate attempt to layer phishing‑resistant, passwordless identity controls and operational resilience on top of Microsoft Entra ID, with a...

RSA’s new RSA ID Plus for Microsoft lineup goes beyond a simple integration — it’s a strategic push to layer enterprise-grade, phishing‑resistant identity controls on top of Microsoft Entra ID while promising operational resilience for environments that still rely on legacy, on‑premises, and...

October’s vulnerability headlines weren’t just noise — they forced emergency patching, accelerated government remediation orders, and exposed two persistent truths for Windows shops: trusted infrastructure is a prime target, and identity and container isolation are no longer “nice to have”...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a high‑visibility disruption on Wednesday afternoon UTC when an apparent configuration error in Azure Front Door — Microsoft’s global edge and content delivery fabric — knocked a broad swath of Azure‑fronted services offline, producing real‑world outages for airlines...

Microsoft’s cloud went dark for a chunk of the global workday on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door (AFD) cascaded through the company’s edge and identity fabric, knocking Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services and thousands of customer sites into partial or...