security governance

Microsoft Ignite 2025 opened as an unmistakable signal: Microsoft is making a full-court press to turn its AI and cloud investments into partner-ready products and enterprise-grade security controls — and that push is reshaping the partner program, licensing, and Windows security posture in ways...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has graduated from an experimental authoring surface into a full‑throttle platform for “agentic” automation — a low‑code to pro‑code environment that lets organizations build, publish, govern and measure fleets of AI agents that act on behalf of people and teams across...

Microsoft’s plainspoken reveal — that Windows 11 is being reshaped into an agentic OS — finally gives concrete form to months of product hints: a permissioned, observable runtime for AI agents that can act on your behalf, running in isolated “agent workspaces” under distinct agent accounts and...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 lands as an unmistakable AI-first moment for enterprise IT, with Microsoft positioning agentic AI, local device inferencing, and hardened AI security as the practical building blocks IT Pros must learn to operate and govern this year. Background / Overview Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s latest public framing of Windows as “evolving into an agentic OS” provoked an unusually loud and coordinated backlash this week, forcing Windows + Devices chief Pavan Davuluri to lock replies on his social post as criticism poured in from developers, power users, and longtime...

Microsoft’s public roadmap entries and recent admin notices show a coordinated next wave of Microsoft 365 updates that touch the browser, mobile Outlook, Excel’s new agent-driven capabilities, and the underlying Copilot platform — with rollout windows concentrated in December 2025 through early...

Interact’s Autumn 2025 release pushes the company from a traditional intranet vendor into the fast‑moving world of agentic AI for employee experience — promising a Microsoft Copilot connector, agentic “Signal” and “Recognition” agents, out‑of‑the‑box HR and IT integrations, and deeper social...

Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 team has pushed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for ERP from a narrow, tool-based prototype into a dynamic, analytics-ready runtime—a move that promises to make Dynamics 365 applications agent‑friendly, extensible, and more tightly governed. The company announced...

Oxfordshire County Council has moved from pilot to full rollout with Microsoft Copilot, claiming major time savings, a £3.3m net present value identified in its proof of concept, and a programme of engagement and governance designed to make AI adoption practical, safe and organisation‑wide...

Cisco’s latest security sweep has found that many of the most widely used open-weight large language models are alarmingly easy to manipulate with a small series of crafted prompts — and multi-turn (conversation) attacks are the most effective vector, producing success rates two to ten times...

The Louvre’s security embarrassment boiled down to a single, humiliating detail: auditors reported that the server managing the museum’s video surveillance could be accessed with the password “LOUVRE,” and a separate Thales system used “THALES” — trivial credentials flagged years earlier in a...

Infosys today announced an AI agent built specifically for energy-sector operations that combines the company’s newly launched Infosys Topaz platform and Infosys Cobalt cloud offerings with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o family, positioning the...

The Louvre’s security collapse reads like a horror story for IT teams: auditors found the video‑surveillance server protected by the literal, case‑sensitive password “LOUVRE,” multiple security applications left unpatched for years, and critical monitoring software still running on an...

Microsoft’s new e‑book and the surrounding product messaging make a clear, consequential claim: generative AI can shift Security Operations Centers (SOCs) from overwhelmed triage centers into proactive, high‑impact defense teams — reducing wasted analyst time, accelerating investigations, and...

Microsoft Teams is everywhere — installed, licensed, and often paid for at enterprise scale — yet many organizations still struggle to extract measurable business value from it. What started as a rapid chat-and-meetings rollout frequently stalls at day-to-day basics, leaving expensive licensing...

AI tools can reclaim hours from your workweek when deployed with clear rules, minimal permissions, and a single-task focus — not as magic fixes but as deliberate productivity amplifiers that Indian professionals can adopt today. Background / Overview The surge of generative AI and workspace...

MTN’s migration of its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform to Microsoft Azure represents a decisive step in telco cloud modernisation: a move that promises faster analytics, broader scale, and tighter integration of AI into customer and operational workflows, while also resurfacing...

Microsoft’s new Copilot agents bring a long-awaited shift from “ask and receive” AI to agents that act inside the apps people use every day, automating repetitive work, coordinating multi-step workflows across Microsoft 365, and—if configured—taking pre-authorized actions on behalf of teams and...

Satya Nadella’s brief public playbook for Microsoft 365 Copilot — five short prompts he says he uses in his daily workflow — is less a quaint CEO productivity tip and more a blueprint for how next‑generation enterprise copilots can rewire leadership, compress decision cycles, and turn months of...

RIB Software has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the adoption of AI-native solutions across the construction lifecycle, pairing RIB’s industry software with Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack to push practical AI into estimating, procurement, project control and...