zero trust

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...

Everfox’s announcement that Microsoft has approved its Trusted Thin Client (TTC) for use across Microsoft Azure clouds marks a significant inflection point for secure multi-classification access in cloud environments, but the declaration raises as many operational and policy questions as it...

Enterprise IT is hurtling toward an inflection point where AI is no longer an optional productivity layer but a persistent, machine‑speed conduit for both business value and cyber risk—and the latest ThreatLabz analysis from Zscaler makes that danger unmistakably clear. Released January 27...

This February’s Windows Office Hours on February 19, 2026, is more than a scheduled Q&A — it’s a targeted opportunity for IT teams to get direct, product-level clarity on the hard choices and operational trade-offs that define modern Windows management: migrating to Windows 11, keeping fleets...

Microsoft’s new security brief paints a stark picture: as AI agents proliferate across enterprises, the real risk isn’t just rogue code or bad models—it’s a growing visibility gap that can turn helpful automation into unintended “double agents.” The company’s Cyber Pulse: An AI Security Report...

Microsoft’s security partner ecosystem just got a new set of headline recognitions: the winners of the 2026 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards were announced following an event in Redmond on January 26, 2026, spotlighting partners that have pushed the boundaries of AI‑enabled defense, Zero...

ABN AMRO’s move to Windows 365 for 3,500 offshore developers is more than a desktop swap — it’s a deliberate modernization of the bank’s developer workplace designed to cut latency, simplify operations, and align global teams on a single, cloud‑first platform. Background / Overview ABN AMRO, one...

Microsoft’s Deputy CISO for Government and Trust lays out a clear, urgent argument: defending government data today requires a fundamentally different posture — one that moves from reactive patching to proactive, collaborative, and engineering-led defense — and that Microsoft intends to bring...