policy enforcement

The Town of Oliver has taken a decisive—if cautious—step toward governing artificial intelligence in municipal operations, asking staff to draft an “appropriate-use” AI policy while temporarily banning the use of open generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for official business and continuing to...

Microsoft’s announcement that Puget Sound employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office will be expected in the office three days a week by the end of February 2026 is a decisive reset of hybrid norms at one of Big Tech’s most consequential firms — and it changes the framing of...

Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio embeds inline, real‑time attack prevention directly into Copilot Studio agents, promising step‑level policy enforcement, data‑exfiltration controls, and telemetry for enterprises that want to scale agentic AI without surrendering...

Title: Microsoft ships Windows 10 Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198) to the Release Preview Channel — what IT needs to know Lead Today, September 11, 2025, Microsoft published a short Release Preview Channel flight for Windows 10, shipping Windows 10, version 22H2 — Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198). The...

Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio promises to bring native, inline attack prevention into the execution path of enterprise AI agents, positioning runtime enforcement and step-level policy controls as the new baseline for safe agent deployment at scale. Background /...

Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets organizations route an AI agent’s planned actions through external monitors — including Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or custom in‑tenant policy engines — and receive an approve-or-block verdict...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a new enforcement point into the live execution path for enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block decision...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant control point into the live execution path of enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors (Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or customer endpoints) and receive an approve/block verdict in...

Microsoft has pushed a meaningful new enforcement point into AI agent workflows: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime monitoring that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions to an external policy engine — such as Microsoft Defender, a third‑party XDR, or a custom...

Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets security teams intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block the actions autonomous agents plan to take as they run, bringing step‑level policy decisioning into the live execution loop for Power Platform...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time security control that routes an agent’s planned actions through external monitors—allowing organizations to approve or block tool calls and actions while an AI agent runs—and the capability is now available in public preview for Power...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time monitoring and control layer for AI agents, letting enterprises intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block agent actions as they execute, and giving security teams a new way to enforce policies at runtime without sacrificing agent...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...

Zenity’s expanded partnership with Microsoft plugs real-time, inline security directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio agents — a move that promises to make agentic AI safer for widespread enterprise use while raising new operational and architectural questions for security teams. The...

Microsoft has quietly but meaningfully shifted the balance of power between autonomous AI agents and enterprise defenders: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitors (Microsoft Defender...

A federal judge has stopped short of the dramatic corporate breakup many in Washington and Silicon Valley predicted, ruling that Google will not be forced to sell its Chrome browser or divest Android as part of remedies in the government’s landmark search antitrust case—but the decision still...

Microsoft’s long-running Kerberos hardening campaign is entering its final, non-reversible phase: the temporary registry workarounds that allowed administrators to keep weak certificate mappings and “Compatibility” behavior will be removed with the September 2025 servicing wave, forcing everyone...

Microsoft’s Agent Factory guidance sharpens the focus on agent observability as the non-negotiable foundation for reliable, safe, and scalable agentic AI — and its recommendations are timely: as agents move from prototypes to workflows that touch business-critical data and systems, observability...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 was supposed to make AI agents safer to run at enterprise scale; instead, recent reports show a control-plane failure that left some agents discoverable and installable despite tenant-level policy locks—forcing administrators into time-consuming, per-agent...

Microsoft’s Copilot Agent ecosystem is facing a governance and enforcement crisis: multiple independent reports show that tenant-level policies intended to block agent availability are not being reliably enforced, Microsoft’s Copilot audit telemetry has contained reproducible blind spots, and...