security controls

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

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...

Microsoft Edge's experimental Scareware Blocker is graduating from a single-user popup interrupter to a broader, system-strengthening feature that can block scam sites and — in the Canary channel — optionally share detected scam links and classifications with Microsoft’s Defender SmartScreen...

The surging tide of cybersecurity threats throughout government, business, and the public sector is driving what many experts call the “talent crisis” of the digital era. From high-profile data breaches hitting multinational corporations to the relentless onslaught of ransomware attacks...

The release of Microsoft Office Administrative Templates (ADMX/ADML) version 5506.1000 marks yet another critical milestone in granular administrative control over the Office suite—encompassing not just the perennial Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, but also the more specialized and long-term...

Hackers continue to evolve their tactics, and with sophisticated attacks targeting even the most mature enterprise technology stacks, the recent exploitation of Microsoft 365’s Direct Send feature underscores the persistent cat-and-mouse game between IT teams and cybercriminals. Direct Send, a...

Cloud computing has always promised agility, productivity, and unlimited scale, but rarely do the default settings underpinning these promises curtail security in as direct a way as Microsoft's implementation of default outbound access for Azure virtual machines. As Azure races toward retiring...

When it comes to the intersection of enterprise AI ambitions and modern security best practices, even the best-laid plans can occasionally fall prey to human error—on the grandest of stages. That reality became all too clear during Microsoft's Build 2025 conference, where an unexpected technical...

Microsoft Teams, the dominant workplace collaboration platform, is poised to introduce a pivotal update aimed at safeguarding sensitive information: the “Prevent Screen Capture” feature. Beginning a worldwide rollout in July 2025, this upgrade is designed to automatically block screen capture...

Microsoft’s Recall feature, the AI-fueled digital notetaker that nobody asked for yet everyone has an opinion about, has sidestepped its way back into Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs after nearly a year of public silence and private engineering panic. That’s right—Recall, the auto-screenshotting...

Every so often, a feature debuts in the PC world with the potential to change the way we work, remember, and question our relationship with technology. Microsoft’s Copilot Recall is one such feature—a leap in activity-tracking designed to promise both seamless productivity and a radical...

Original release date: October 03, 2018 Systems Affected Network Systems Overview The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is aware of ongoing APT actor activity attempting to infiltrate the networks of global managed service providers (MSPs). Since May 2016...

Graham Calladine, Security Architect with Microsoft Services, answers the most common security concerns CxOs and other technical decision-makers have regarding the security of their data in Windows Azure cloud platform. You’ll learn about: The security controls that Azure has in place to...