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Microsoft’s latest push to marry autonomous defense with expert-led services forces a practical reckoning: modern SOCs can either adapt to a world of minute‑scale attacks or continue paying the growing operational tax of fragmentation, manual toil, and missed signals. Background / Overview...

Microsoft has quietly folded a longtime defender's toolkit into the core of Windows 11: Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature in Insider Preview builds, and Build 28020.1611 (KB5077221) also brings a small but practical OneDrive sharing polish and a...

Microsoft’s February update for Microsoft Sentinel introduces a dedicated Copilot data connector in public preview that brings Copilot audit logs and activity telemetry directly into Sentinel workspaces and the Sentinel data lake, enabling SOC teams to hunt, detect, and automate responses to...

Microsoft’s decision to fold System Monitor — Sysmon from the Sysinternals suite — into Windows 11 as an optional, inbox feature marks one of the most consequential changes to desktop monitoring in years. The functionality has begun appearing in Windows 11 Insider Preview builds (notably the Dev...

Microsoft has begun a public preview of a dedicated Copilot data connector for Microsoft Sentinel, a move that brings Copilot audit logs and activity telemetry directly into Sentinel workspaces and the Sentinel data lake so security teams can hunt, detect, and automate responses to AI‑related...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of the most powerful pieces of Windows forensic telemetry out of the Sysinternals download bucket and into the operating system itself: Sysmon functionality is now an optional, built‑in feature in Windows 11 and is rolling out to Insider Preview builds, bringing...

Microsoft has quietly folded Sysmon — the long-favored Sysinternals system-monitoring tool — into Windows 11 as an optional, inbox feature, delivering it through Insider preview builds and the Windows servicing pipeline rather than as a separate Sysinternals download. That change, which appears...