identity security

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...

Midday on Wednesday, October 29, thousands of organizations and consumers worldwide experienced a major disruption that left Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 admin surfaces, and a wide range of dependent services intermittently unavailable or sluggish — an incident Microsoft attributed to a...

Microsoft engineers reported that they had begun restoring service after a global Azure outage triggered by an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), an incident that knocked Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and thousands of customer sites offline...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered in mid‑afternoon UTC on October 29, 2025, producing a broad global outage that left Microsoft 365 portals, Xbox and Minecraft sign‑ins, and a raft of third‑party websites intermittently unreachable — a failure Microsoft attributed to problems in Azure Front...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on October 29, 2025, when an Azure outage traced to a suspected inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft 365, the Azure management portal, Xbox and Minecraft authentication, and a raft of third‑party sites — including...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a sharp, highly visible disruption that left thousands of users unable to reach the Azure Portal and knocked authentication-dependent services — from Microsoft 365 admin consoles to Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins — offline for hours while engineers scrambled to...

A Microsoft cloud outage knocked large swathes of Microsoft 365, Azure management consoles and even gaming services offline for hours, with users worldwide reporting failed sign‑ins, blank admin portal blades, intermittent 502/504 gateway errors and disrupted Minecraft and Xbox authentication —...

Microsoft Copilot Studio agents can be weaponized to deliver highly convincing OAuth consent phishing that results in stolen tokens and persistent account access — a technique researchers have labelled “CoPhish” that leverages legitimate Microsoft-hosted agent pages to evade traditional...

When an industry veteran says “identity is the new perimeter,” they mean more than a slogan — they mean a strategic pivot that should already be reshaping every security program, architecture review, and boardroom risk discussion. In a recent interview reported by IT Brief New Zealand, James...

Keeper Security’s new native integration with Microsoft Sentinel promises to turn privileged credential telemetry into a real‑time detection stream for SOC teams — delivering prebuilt dashboards, analytics rules and a push connector that ingests Keeper event data into Sentinel workspaces in both...

The Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 delivers a stark wake-up call: cyberthreats are not simply changing — they are accelerating in speed, scale, and coordination in ways that force a reimagining of how security is framed, funded, and executed inside organizations. The most consequential...

Cayosoft’s new Guardian Protector is a free, always-on identity threat detection tool designed to provide continuous, real-time monitoring and alerts across hybrid Microsoft identity environments including Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), giving organizations a...

IT Researches Ltd’s latest press release positions the company as a one‑stop Microsoft modernization partner — promising turnkey migrations to Microsoft 365 and Office 2024, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 rollouts, SQL Server 2022 data modernisation, and hybrid Azure integrations designed to...

Windows administrators and identity teams should treat a newly disclosed Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) vulnerability — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59258 — as a high‑priority operational item: Microsoft’s advisory describes an insertion of sensitive information into AD FS log files that...