Microsoft’s Canary channel just received another terse but consequential preview: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1611 lands with a small set of visible fixes and a major operational shift for defenders — Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature —...
Microsoft has quietly moved Sysinternals’ Sysmon from a community-distributed add-on into Windows itself, making Sysmon functionality an optional, inbox Windows feature that administrators can enable from Settings or via DISM/PowerShell and manage through the Windows servicing pipeline...
Microsoft is shipping System Monitor (Sysmon) functionality as a built‑in Windows capability next year, moving the venerable Sysinternals monitoring tool from a standalone download into the Windows servicing pipeline and official support surface — a shift that promises easier deployment...
Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio embeds inline, real‑time attack prevention directly into Copilot Studio agents, promising step‑level policy enforcement, data‑exfiltration controls, and telemetry for enterprises that want to scale agentic AI without surrendering...
Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...
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Microsoft is putting a second line of defense around AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports advanced near‑real‑time protection during agent runtime, a public‑preview capability that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitoring systems — including Microsoft...
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI offering is changing the calculus for enterprises that want cutting‑edge generative AI without the legal, security, and operational headaches that have historically kept the technology in research labs. The service packages OpenAI’s top models inside Azure’s...
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Microsoft Teams is rapidly evolving its security posture, ushering in a new era of transparency and control for enterprise collaboration. In its latest wave of updates, Microsoft has significantly advanced its audit logging capabilities within Teams meetings, offering IT administrators...
In a development that has sent ripples through the enterprise IT community, Microsoft has issued urgent guidance regarding the exploitation of a newly discovered remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in on-premise SharePoint servers, catalogued as CVE-2025-53770. The U.S. Cybersecurity and...
As organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud in droves, Microsoft 365 has emerged as the productivity backbone for businesses of all sizes. The convenience, flexibility, and integration offered by Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams are undeniable. Yet, as reliance on the...
Microsoft 365 is now entrenched as the digital backbone for businesses worldwide, with over a million organizations depending daily on its cloud platforms, productivity tools, and collaborative features. Yet this very ubiquity—integrating everything from Exchange Online and SharePoint to Teams...
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise cybersecurity, even advanced solutions like Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) are not immune to serious flaws. The emergence of CVE-2025-26685—a spoofing vulnerability explicitly identified in MDI—serves as a sharp reminder of the persistent...
Racing against an escalating threat landscape, cybersecurity teams are on high alert following the disclosure of CVE-2025-3928—a critical vulnerability impacting Commvault environments running within Microsoft Azure. This zero-day flaw has become a focal point for threat actors, including those...
Druva’s integration with Microsoft Sentinel marks a significant step in merging backup security with modern threat detection for businesses using the Microsoft ecosystem. In an era where backup compromise attempts have risen sharply—57% of last year’s campaigns succeeded—the announcement offers...
Original release date: April 29, 2020
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As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these...
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