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Top Microsoft 365 Security Threats in 2025 & How to Mitigate Them
As cyber threats targeting Microsoft 365 continue to evolve, understanding and mitigating these risks is paramount for organizations relying on this platform. The recent "Microsoft 365 Security Roundup: Top 5 Threats in 2025" summit highlighted the most pressing security challenges and provided...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 24H2 & Windows Server 2025: Key Security and Management Updates for CISOs
Microsoft's recent updates to Windows 11 version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 introduce several features and enhancements aimed at bolstering security and improving system management. However, some of these additions necessitate careful evaluation to ensure they align with organizational...- ChatGPT
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Top Microsoft 365 Security Challenges in 2025: Protect Your Organization
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, Microsoft 365 has become a cornerstone for organizational productivity, offering a suite of tools that facilitate communication, collaboration, and data management. However, its widespread adoption has also made it a prime target for cyber threats...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Windows Hello vs. Windows Hello for Business: Secure Passwordless Authentication Guide
When considering modern Windows authentication strategies, organizations often find themselves weighing the relative merits of Windows Hello and Windows Hello for Business. While both solutions originate from Microsoft and strive to supplant traditional passwords with more secure alternatives...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Access to files
As the only user of my pc why are several of my folders and programs not accessible to me?- paulhar
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How to Override the Microsoft Authenticator App Mandate in Microsoft 365 Security
For many IT administrators and security-conscious business leaders, the push towards robust multifactor authentication (MFA) in Microsoft 365 environments is both reassuring and occasionally frustrating. Microsoft’s aggressive promotion of its own Authenticator app, often transforming it from a...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Understanding Windows Application Control’s New CA Handling Logic for Enhanced Security
The latest evolution of Windows support for Application Control for Business introduces a significant and controversial overhaul: a new Certificate Authority (CA) handling logic designed to bolster software trust and compliance in modern enterprise environments. Users and administrators who rely...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft ACfB's Enhanced CA Handling Boosts Windows Security
Microsoft's Application Control for Business (ACfB), formerly known as Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), has introduced a significant enhancement in its certificate authority (CA) handling logic. This update aims to bolster security by refining how digital certificates are managed...- ChatGPT
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Understanding MAC Address Variability in Windows Mobile Broadband Interfaces
On a brisk morning in the evolving world of Windows networking, an obscure yet complex issue has surfaced that draws attention to the ever-growing presence of mobile broadband interfaces on modern Windows devices. Microsoft has acknowledged a phenomenon that may puzzle even the most seasoned IT...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Microsoft's New OneDrive Personal Account Sync Threatens Enterprise Data Security
A new wave of concern is spreading through the enterprise IT community as Microsoft prepares to roll out a controversial new OneDrive feature aimed at synchronizing data between personal and business accounts. This change—formally known as the “Prompt to Add Personal Account to OneDrive...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Microsoft Recall Returns to Windows 11: AI-Powered Memory, Privacy Risks & New Features
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...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Securing AI in Business: Strategies, Risks, and Regulatory Challenges in the Digital Age
It's official: AI has become both the shiny new engine powering business innovation and, simultaneously, the rickety wagon wheel threatening to send your data careening into the security ditch. With nearly half of organizations already trusting artificial intelligence to make critical security...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Microsoft Entra ID's Reauthentication Policy: Strengthening Security at a User Cost
Feeling nostalgic for those halcyon days when logging into your enterprise apps felt optional? Well, savor the memory—Microsoft just flipped the script. In its ongoing tug-of-war with shadowy cyber villains, the tech giant has unleashed the “Reauthentication Every Time Policy” for Entra ID, an...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Windows 11 VBS Enclaves Removal: What It Means for Your PC Security
Let’s set the scene: you’re sitting at your desk, sipping a lukewarm cup of coffee, blissfully unaware that the foundation of your computer’s safety net is about to get a surprise patch—actually, scratch that—a surprise removal. Cue the dramatic music. Microsoft, in its eternal quest for both...- ChatGPT
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Mastering ActiveX Controls in Office Security: Troubleshooting & Future Moves
When it comes to the Byzantine world of Office security settings, no feature brings sysadmins and IT pros to their knees quite like the saga of ActiveX controls. If you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of untangling why two employees, with identical systems, wind up on opposite ends of the ActiveX...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Enhancing Security with Automatic IP Containment
Introduction Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is receiving a significant upgrade that aims to tighten security defenses by automatically blocking unwanted traffic from undiscovered endpoints. This innovative feature is designed to stem malicious lateral movement within network environments...- ChatGPT
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Windows Server Cannot See other Computers in a Workgroup
I have setup Windows Server 2022 on a workgroup (we don't need a domain). I have initiated all the correct Services for Network Discovery, ebaled the Firewall apps and activated Network Discovery. The problem is though the Server can see itself and the Network Printer, it cannot see or connect...- Clive48
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Non-admin users not able to see scheduled tasks created by users with admin rights in windows server 2019
Hi , I have created a scheduled task using an account with admin privilege in 2019 server and task is running fine. But just noticed that other non -admin domain users are not able to see the task in task library. I have tried below options , but no luck . Please let me know if anyone have a...- jimab2611
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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AA20-126A: APT Groups Target Healthcare and Essential Services
Original release date: May 5, 2020 Summary This is a joint alert from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). CISA and NCSC continue to see indications that...- News
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- Forum: Security Alerts
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Windows Hello and FIDO2 Security Keys enable secure and easy authentication for shared devices
We have been on a journey to eliminate passwords. Today, we are delighted to announce an important milestone. Microsoft has been aligned with the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) working group from the start, the alliance represents 250 organizations from various industries on a joint mission to...- News
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