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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a “Possible Podcast” episode posted Friday that companies should manage AI agents with identities, permissions, sandboxes, policies, and audits, framing them less as chatbots and more as non-human workers inside enterprise systems. The remark sounds tidy...

On June 3, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story describing how Japan’s Shinsei Technos adopted Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access to secure mobile work, temporary construction offices, and access to internal systems while preserving parts of its existing...

Kore.ai launched the Artemis edition of its Agent Platform on May 21, 2026, initially on Microsoft Azure, positioning it as a governed enterprise system for building, deploying, and operating multi-agent AI workflows across large organisations. The announcement is less about another chatbot...

Microsoft has moved sensitivity labels for Microsoft Entra cloud security groups into public preview, extending Microsoft Purview-governed access controls to static, non-mail-enabled security groups used across Azure, SharePoint, Power BI, and other corporate resources. The change sounds narrow...

Microsoft said on May 22, 2026, that Forrester named it a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Workforce Identity Security Platforms, Q2 2026, with Microsoft Entra receiving the highest scores in the report’s current offering and strategy categories, according to the company’s security blog. The...

Microsoft made Entra-Only identities for Azure Files SMB generally available on May 19, 2026, allowing organizations to grant identity-based SMB file-share access to cloud-only Microsoft Entra ID users without deploying Active Directory, hybrid sync, Entra Domain Services, or managed domain...

Microsoft’s new Entra Backup and Recovery feature marks an important shift in how identity resilience is handled inside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Instead of treating tenant recovery as a patchwork of scripts, exports, and emergency runbooks, Microsoft is now offering a built-in...

CVE-2026-28388 is a reminder that not every security flaw needs remote code execution to matter. Even a NULL pointer dereference can become operationally significant when it sits inside a trust-heavy component such as certificate validation, especially if the affected path is tied to revocation...

The Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate credential, better known as AZ-104, has become one of the clearest signals that an IT professional can actually operate inside a modern cloud estate rather than merely talk about one. Microsoft’s current exam guide shows that the certification is built...

Microsoft’s SC-900 certification has become one of the clearest on-ramps into the modern security stack because it teaches the language of security, compliance, and identity before learners ever have to wrestle with advanced administration. For beginners, that matters: the exam is explicitly...

Microsoft’s latest Storm-2755 research is a sharp reminder that payroll fraud has evolved far beyond simple credential theft. In the campaign Microsoft DART analyzed, attackers used malvertising, SEO poisoning, and adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing to hijack sessions, bypass MFA, and...

The idea that identity governance is “just compliance” is rapidly becoming obsolete. In Microsoft’s latest framing, governance is now one of the operational foundations of Zero Trust, because access decisions have to be continuously justified, time-bound, and revocable across cloud, hybrid, and...

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...