security governance

Microsoft’s Visual Studio has reached a new milestone for AI-assisted development: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now generally available in the IDE, enabling developers to plug Copilot and other agentic tools directly into local and remote services with first-class configuration...

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...

Windows 11 still hides a surprising amount of power under its polished surface — and for power users the obvious answer isn't hoping Microsoft brings back every legacy tool, it’s learning where those capabilities already exist and how to extend them cleanly. What began as a short list of...

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...

Accenture’s bold, large-scale embrace of GitHub Copilot—backed by a structured Microsoft Learn training pipeline and a gamified enablement program—has rapidly moved the consulting giant from pilot to production, equipping thousands of developers with AI-assisted coding tools and creating a...

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...

The evolution of Kubernetes deployment has entered a pivotal new phase, as Microsoft announces the general availability of its workload orchestration service within Azure Arc. This innovation arrives at a time when enterprises across multiple sectors—manufacturing, retail, healthcare...

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...

The landscape of enterprise web development is experiencing a significant transformation as Microsoft Power Pages introduces native support for building modern Single-Page Applications (SPA) in preview. Historically positioned as a robust, low-code platform enabling rapid creation of secure...

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...

CSX, a leading North American railroad company, is reinventing supply chain agility through the strategic adoption of Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and an evolving suite of AI-driven technologies embedded within the Microsoft ecosystem. In a logistics landscape increasingly defined...

Johor Corporation, the principal development agency of the Johor State Government, represents a compelling case study in the practical and visionary application of cloud and AI technologies to fuel organizational transformation, economic growth, and social progress. As digital priorities become...

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...