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  1. Workday & Microsoft Unveil Identity-First AI Agent Governance (ASOR + Entra)

    Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...
  2. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU, App Updates, and Migration Plans

    Microsoft has set a firm end-of-support date for Windows 10—October 14, 2025—and the flurry of "30 days" headlines that followed this announcement compresses a complex, staged retirement into a single-sentence alarm that obscures exactly what will and won't change for users and IT teams...
  3. Windows 365 Cloud Apps Public Preview: App-Only Streaming for Frontline Workers

    Microsoft’s Windows 365 is taking a pragmatic step toward wider frontline and shift-worker adoption by launching Windows 365 Cloud Apps in public preview — a feature that streams individual Windows applications from a shared Cloud PC so organizations can deliver Outlook, Word, OneDrive and...
  4. Workday and Microsoft: Unified AI Agents with Entra ID and ASOR

    Workday and Microsoft’s new integration aims to let organisations manage human employees and AI agents from a single, auditable plane — registering Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agents into Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and giving each agent a verifiable Microsoft Entra Agent ID...
  5. Windows 365 Cloud Apps: Publish Individual Apps Without Full Cloud PCs (Public Preview)

    Microsoft’s Windows 365 just added a major twist to its Cloud PC story: administrators can now publish individual, cloud‑hosted applications — Outlook, Word, OneDrive, Edge, PowerPoint and line‑of‑business apps — without provisioning a full Cloud PC for every user, with the feature opening as a...
  6. Workday and Microsoft Launch Agent System of Record for AI Agents

    Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
  7. Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-Driven Enterprise Governance

    Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...
  8. Workday and Microsoft Unite to Govern AI Agents in the Enterprise

    Workday and Microsoft quietly stitched together a practical bridge between identity, runtime, and business context for AI agents—an integration that promises to make digital workers first-class citizens in enterprise HR, finance, and security systems while raising new questions about governance...
  9. CVE-2025-54096: Patch RRAS Out-of-Bounds Read in Windows VPN Gateways

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54096, a vulnerability in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that allows an out-of-bounds read and can be abused by a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information over a network — a high-priority fix for any server running...
  10. AI Adoption Without Governance: Visibility Gaps Elevate Security and Compliance Risk

    As organizations race to exploit generative AI and broaden their third‑party ecosystems, a startling pattern is emerging: mass adoption without adequate visibility is creating a cascade of security, compliance, and financial risks that many firms are poorly equipped to handle. New survey data...
  11. Secure Multi-Cloud Connector Enables Power Platform on Live AWS Data for Government

    Hitachi Solutions Europe’s Proof of Concept (PoC) that let Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — operate on live, sensitive case data stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that data represents a practical leap for secure...
  12. Copilot Studio Enables Inline Real-Time Enforcement via External Monitors

    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...
  13. Prisma SASE 4.0: AI-Driven Browser Security & SaaS Agent Governance

    Palo Alto Networks has pushed a clear marker in the SASE arms race with the launch of Prisma SASE 4.0, a major platform refresh that explicitly frames the next phase of enterprise security as AI versus AI — protecting organizations not only from AI-augmented attackers, but from the uncontrolled...
  14. Veeam Software Appliance: Pre-hardened Linux Backup Platform for Fast, Secure Recovery

    Veeam has released its first pre-configured, pre-hardened software appliance for the Veeam Data Platform — a hardware‑agnostic, Linux‑based delivery of Veeam Backup & Replication that promises faster deployments, built‑in immutability and Zero Trust controls, automated patching, and instant...
  15. GSA OneGov: Microsoft 365 Copilot Free for Federal Agencies - Opportunities and Risks

    Microsoft’s new OneGov agreement with the General Services Administration promises to make Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively free for qualifying federal customers while folding deep discounts across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and security tooling into a government‑wide purchasing vehicle...
  16. Veeam Software Appliance: Pre-Hardened Linux JeOS for Immutable Backups (ISO/OVA)

    Veeam’s new software appliance promises to strip away months of configuration work and Windows licensing headaches by delivering a pre-built, pre-hardened, bootable data-protection appliance that runs on a Veeam-managed Linux “Just Enough OS” — a move designed to accelerate deployments, reduce...
  17. Microsoft Copilot Free for U.S. Government: Adoption, Security, and Costs

    Microsoft’s offer to make Copilot available at no charge to U.S. government workers marks a significant shift in how enterprise AI is being positioned for public-sector users, promising quick adoption benefits while raising immediate questions about procurement, security, and long-term costs...
  18. Zero-Click WhatsApp Flaw & Azure MFA: Identity Is The New Perimeter

    Two parallel announcements from Meta and Microsoft this week — a patched zero-click vulnerability in WhatsApp and a timetable for mandatory multi-factor authentication across Azure — crystallise a single lesson for enterprise security teams: convenience is no longer an acceptable substitute for...
  19. Life Without Barriers Security Refresh: Unified Microsoft Stack Reduces Risk

    Life Without Barriers’ recent security refresh shows how human‑services organisations can use integrated Microsoft tooling to both reduce risk and free frontline staff for the work that matters. Background / Overview Life Without Barriers (LWB), one of Australia’s largest human‑services...
  20. CERT-In Urges Immediate Patch for Edge, Windows Storage, Certificates, Databricks

    The Indian government’s cybersecurity arm has issued a high-severity alert advising organisations and individuals to urgently address a batch of patched—but still dangerous—vulnerabilities across multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Server storage...