security governance

This week’s wave of security headlines delivered a clear, uncomfortable message for Windows admins and security teams: the internet’s trust fabric is fraying in ways that let attackers hide inside legitimate flows — and Microsoft’s own infrastructure, link‑wrapping services, and even patch...

Microsoft’s August 2025 Intune update materially expands the platform’s security controls and enrollment ergonomics, delivering four headline features—granular App Control targeting, automatic patching during device setup, near‑real‑time Apple software update visibility via Declarative Device...

Microsoft has made the Model Context Protocol (MCP) a first‑class citizen in Visual Studio, shipping general availability support that lets Copilot Chat and other agentic features connect to local or remote MCP servers via a simple .mcp.json configuration — a major convenience for developers...

Satya Nadella’s internal memo bluntly reframes Microsoft’s next act: the century-old “software factory” that Bill Gates imagined has served its purpose, but in the era of generative AI it is no longer enough — Microsoft must become an “intelligence engine” powered by AI, security, and quality...

Microsoft Teams is getting a tighter security posture: Microsoft is rolling out new protections that will block weaponizable file types in chats and channels, scan and warn about malicious URLs at the time of delivery and click, and extend administrative control by integrating Teams with the...

The UK government’s five‑year Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft — the Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) — commits public bodies to a scale of procurement that the Crown Commercial Service expects will amount to roughly £9 billion over the life of the deal, and that...

Zenity Labs’ Black Hat presentation unveiled a dramatic new class of threats to enterprise AI: “zero‑click” hijacking techniques that can silently compromise widely used agents and assistants — from ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Einstein, and Google Gemini — allowing attackers to...

Microsoft’s July 2025 update to Visual Studio Code, shipped as version 1.103, is the most explicit signal yet that the VS Code team is turning the editor into a platform for AI-driven development workflows — with one of the headline additions being GitHub Copilot chat checkpoints, a preview...

Microsoft’s Copilot 3D collapses a steep technical barrier: upload a single JPG or PNG and, within seconds, receive a downloadable GLB 3D model — but that convenience brings new and complex legal, security, and fidelity tradeoffs that creators and IT teams must confront now. (theverge.com...

When considering disaster resilience for Microsoft 365, the discussion often revolves around infrastructure, backup, and failover. However, insight from leading industry experts reveals a more foundational vulnerability—identity. At a pivotal summit hosted by Virtualization & Cloud Review, IT...

As Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 approach end-of-support in October 2025, countless organisations find themselves at a digital crossroads, compelled to confront deep strategic questions about the future of their communication infrastructure. The clock is ticking for IT leaders: it’s no...

Few roles in the digital enterprise have undergone as fundamental a transformation in the past decade as the chief information security officer (CISO). Once defined by their stewardship of firewalls, antivirus software, and patch management, CISOs have evolved far beyond their origins as...

In today’s fast-evolving digital world, truly durable security—the kind that doesn’t just fix problems but prevents them from returning—is an elusive goal for organizations of every size. Few companies operate at a scale more challenging than Microsoft, where protecting a global cloud and...

Major security events in enterprise software rarely unfold in isolation; instead, they are often woven into broader technological trends and industry shifts. Such is the case with the recent disclosure from Asana, the globally popular project management platform, admitting that a critical bug in...

Mainframe security is facing a critical inflection point, driven by the collision of long-standing identity and access management (IAM) blind spots with a rapidly evolving compliance landscape. For decades, mainframes have served as the backbone of major industries—banking, healthcare...

Australian businesses navigating an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape are discovering significant operational efficiencies through the adoption of artificial intelligence-powered solutions. A prominent example is Quorum, an IT services provider which has partnered with Microsoft to...

For years, security experts and IT professionals have warned that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in business operations would profoundly reshape the data security landscape. That moment of reckoning has arrived. With the release of the joint Cybersecurity Information Sheet, “AI...

Microsoft’s Build 2025 event delivered what is arguably one of the most pivotal announcements in the ongoing evolution of the Windows operating system: native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Windows 11. This crucial step sets the stage for a new generation of AI-driven...

Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) represents the company’s most ambitious and transparent push yet to move Zero Trust security from theory to ubiquitous, real-world practice. For those charting the latest evolutions in enterprise security—Windows enthusiasts, IT professionals, business...

Shifting perceptions about application security (AppSec) are fundamentally transforming how organizations safeguard the software that powers modern business. No longer the exclusive purview of centralized security teams, AppSec is now woven deep into the fabric of development, procurement, and...