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Microsoft has made DNS over HTTPS support generally available for Windows DNS Server in Windows Server 2025 with the latest June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, giving enterprise networks a Microsoft-supported way to encrypt DNS traffic between DoH-capable clients and their internal resolvers. The...

Microsoft will host a one-hour, chat-based Windows Office Hours event on June 18, 2026, on Microsoft Tech Community for IT professionals seeking guidance on Windows 11 adoption, device management, Zero Trust, cloud-native deployment, and hybrid Windows operations. The format is modest, but the...

Fire and Emergency New Zealand will stop people downloading its documents to personal devices through SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams from 5pm on 8 June 2026, while preserving existing browser-based viewing and editing permissions for staff and external partners. The move is not a ban...

Canadian university researchers published a June 2, 2026 preprint demonstrating an AI-driven worm that autonomously compromises, escalates privileges, and self-replicates across a simulated corporate network of Linux, Windows, and IoT systems without human commands after launch. That is the...

On June 3, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story describing how Japan’s Shinsei Technos adopted Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access to secure mobile work, temporary construction offices, and access to internal systems while preserving parts of its existing...

Microsoft published two Security customer stories on May 22, 2026, spotlighting St. Luke’s University Health Network and ManpowerGroup as examples of organizations using Microsoft Security Copilot, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsoft 365 E5 to prepare their security foundations...

Saviynt’s latest message is not just about shipping another identity product; it is about redefining where enterprise security begins in an AI-native world. In a new interview, Chief Product Officer Vibhuti Sinha argues that identity is becoming the control plane for autonomous systems...

AI has pushed enterprise identity into a new era, and Microsoft’s latest framing makes the problem uncomfortably clear: modern controls can validate a password, token, device, or session without ever proving the person behind them is real. In a world of deepfakes, synthetic candidates, and help...

Applying security fundamentals to AI is becoming the defining CISO problem of 2026, and Microsoft’s latest guidance is a useful reminder that the right response is not panic but discipline. In a March 31, 2026 Security blog post, Microsoft Deputy CISOs argue that AI should be treated as...

IGEL’s latest move is less about a single product feature and more about a strategic packaging of trust. By introducing reference architectures for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop in collaboration with Microsoft, the company is trying to turn secure cloud desktops into something...

IGEL’s new jointly reviewed reference architectures with Microsoft land at a moment when cloud desktops are moving from experimentation to operational necessity. The blueprints are aimed at Windows 365 and Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, but the real story is narrower and more strategic: they...

The email mistake most organisations fear is rarely the glamorous kind. It is not a stealthy zero-day exploit or a nation-state campaign slipping through a firewall at 3am. More often, it is a simple human error: a spreadsheet with payroll data, a misdirected attachment, and a message that lands...

Microsoft has quietly removed one of the biggest identity-management frictions for enterprise customers: the inability to cleanly use third-party MFA providers inside Microsoft Entra ID without sacrificing policy control. The new external MFA capability is now generally available, and Microsoft...

The idea that identity governance is “just compliance” is rapidly becoming obsolete. In Microsoft’s latest framing, governance is now one of the operational foundations of Zero Trust, because access decisions have to be continuously justified, time-bound, and revocable across cloud, hybrid, and...

Microsoft’s Tech Community returning Windows Office Hours on Thursday, March 19, 2026, reaffirms the program’s role as a practical, engineer-backed runway for IT teams wrestling with Windows 11 adoption, modern device management, Zero Trust enforcement, and cloud-native migrations that still...

The final day of Zero Trust World 2026 in Orlando offered a blunt, valuable lesson: even experts and celebrities can be undone by small mistakes — and the best security plans are those that assume people will fail at the worst possible moment. Background / Overview Zero Trust World...

Microsoft’s February Intune update stitches together three practical, long‑requested controls—multi‑administrator approvals for critical policies, deeper Advanced Analytics query controls for large fleets, and assignment filter support for Apple’s Declarative Device Management—into a single...

PTC’s move to make Windchill and Codebeamer available in Microsoft’s mission cloud environments up to Department of Defense Impact Level 6 marks a meaningful step in modernizing engineering pipelines for the defense industrial base, but it also raises a new set of operational, security, and...

Cenibra’s decision to replace a decade‑old SAP Identity Management deployment with Microsoft Entra ID Governance did more than avoid an end‑of‑maintenance cliff—it rebuilt the company’s identity control plane around automation, risk‑driven decisions, and a modern Microsoft ecosystem. In Wave 1...

Microsoft’s new Cyber Pulse report lands like a wake-up call: AI agents are no longer experimental assistants — they are operational digital coworkers running across Fortune 500 workflows, and organizations that fail to treat them as first‑class identities risk creating a vast, invisible attack...