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Microsoft’s authentication systems briefly tripped over a dependency on Monday, leaving some North American users unable to complete sign‑ins to Microsoft 365 because Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA) requests returned 504 “gateway timeout” errors — a disruption Microsoft logged as incident...

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...

Microsoft is rolling out a hardline browser security change for Microsoft Entra ID sign-ins that will block most externally injected scripts on pages that start with login.microsoftonline.com, enforcing a Content Security Policy (CSP) designed to stop script-injection and cross-site scripting...

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...

Microsoft’s claim that it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year crystallizes a larger narrative: the company is wiring identity into the center of enterprise security as AI accelerates both opportunity and risk. This...

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...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 keynote framed a simple but seismic pivot: AI agents are no longer experimental helpers — they are becoming first-class, identity-backed members of the enterprise, and Microsoft’s Agent 365 is the control plane designed to manage them at scale. This announcement...

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...

Microsoft has begun rolling out SMS-based self-service password reset for Microsoft Entra External ID, adding a phone-based recovery option to the External ID SSPR flow while pairing the capability with built-in telecom fraud protections and per-message billing for SMS verification attempts...

Microsoft’s move away from a traditional VPN toward an identity-first Security Service Edge—branded internally as Global Secure Access (GSA) and externally as Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access—represents a major operational and architectural shift for large...

Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...

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...

Microsoft’s enterprise backup story just took a meaningful step: Windows Backup for Organizations — the tenant-scoped backup and restore experience Microsoft built to ease device refreshes and large-scale Windows migrations — is being exposed to Intune administrators and moving into wider...

Microsoft's new Windows Backup for Organizations landed in Microsoft’s enterprise rollout this summer, promising a way for managed tenants to preserve a user’s Windows settings and Microsoft Store app list in the cloud and replay that state automatically during device enrollment — but it is...

Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations lands in the enterprise as a tightly scoped, Intune-integrated way to preserve Windows settings and Microsoft Store app lists in the cloud — but it is not a replacement for disk imaging, file-level backups, or full disaster recovery. Background /...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows Backup for Organizations, a tenant‑scoped, Intune‑integrated backup and restore capability designed to capture user preferences and Microsoft Store app lists so IT can restore a familiar Windows experience on Microsoft Entra‑joined devices during...

Storm-0501’s latest operation — a hybrid assault that began on-premises, pivoted into Azure, exfiltrated and destroyed cloud data, and culminated in a ransom demand delivered through a compromised Microsoft Teams account — marks a stark turning point in how ransomware actors pursue profit and...

Microsoft has published its August 2025 non-security preview update for Windows 11 version 23H2 — KB5064080 (OS Build 22621.5840) — and it brings the long-awaited general availability of Windows Backup for Organizations along with a collection of quality fixes spanning Copilot reliability...

Microsoft has quietly moved Windows Backup for Organizations from preview into the Release Preview channel with the optional, non‑security cumulative update KB5064080 (Build 22631.5837 / OS Build 22621.5840), pairing a cluster of targeted reliability fixes with a strategically important...

Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service...