For the sixth consecutive year, Microsoft’s Security Excellence Awards have spotlighted leaders in the cybersecurity industry who are propelling innovation, fostering collaboration, and actively enhancing enterprise security frameworks on a global scale. Among the 2025 honorees, Netskope has...
Netwrix has stepped boldly into the vanguard of SaaS-based security with the expansion of its 1Secure platform, introducing state-of-the-art data and identity protection alongside AI-powered risk remediation. For organizations enmeshed in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, this latest announcement...
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Gathered in San Francisco on April 28, 2025, a cohort of industry leaders, cybersecurity professionals, and Microsoft leadership convened to recognize the 2025 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards winners—an event underscoring both innovation in cybersecurity and the scale of global...
Microsoft has unveiled a suite of AI-powered Security Copilot agents, now available in public preview, marking a significant advancement in cybersecurity automation. These agents are designed to streamline high-volume security tasks, enabling security teams to concentrate on more complex...
A new browser-based threat dubbed the “Cookie-Bite” attack is capturing the cybersecurity community’s attention, raising major concerns over the integrity of authentication within cloud environments like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS, and others. The discovery, recently...
Identity-based cyberattacks have rapidly emerged as one of the most pressing security challenges facing organizations in 2024 and beyond. As digital transformation accelerates, shifting workforces to remote and hybrid models and driving deeper cloud adoption, the boundaries that once defined...
In the evolving landscape of cloud computing, one critical security challenge remains underappreciated yet profoundly impactful: the risks of overreliance on a single cloud service provider. Despite the proliferation of multicloud strategies, a significant portion of organizations—approximately...
The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven at its core by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and the dynamic nature of modern data flows. Jonathan Roizin, CEO of Flow Security—now part of CrowdStrike—offers a candid perspective on this shift...
Microsoft's March 11 Patch Tuesday rollout, a cornerstone event for Windows security, included a critical fix for an NTLM hash-leaking vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-24054. Initially, Microsoft had rated this vulnerability as "less likely" to be exploited, but swift real-world attacks have...
Microsoft's March and April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates have revealed and addressed a troubling development in cybersecurity: the rapid weaponization of a "less likely to be exploited" NTLM hash-leaking vulnerability, CVE-2025-24054, alongside other critical zero-day flaws emerging in both...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on March 11, 2025, introduced crucial security updates, among them a vulnerability labeled CVE-2025-24054 impacting the NTLM authentication protocol. Though Microsoft initially rated this vulnerability as "less likely" to be exploited, reality quickly contradicted that...
Microsoft’s recent decision to extend support for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) beyond its originally planned end date in April 2025 offers a significant insight into the complex reality of enterprise IT infrastructure management. Although WSUS has long been a stalwart in Windows...
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A Tale of Two Breaches: Microsoft and Apple Patch Rapidly Exploited Vulnerabilities
When Microsoft released its batch of security updates on March 11 during Patch Tuesday, few in the broader security community could have predicted just how quickly threat actors would weaponize one particular...
Microsoft’s relentless evolution of Windows 11 has ushered in sweeping changes to the platform’s security, feature set, and underlying architecture. While every major update promises advancement, each new build increasingly resembles a spring cleaning expedition—sweeping out legacy components...
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Breaking through the learning curve of securing application networks in Azure is a challenge that virtually every Windows professional or DevOps engineer will encounter. The importance of robust cloud security has only magnified as businesses migrate mission-critical workloads and sensitive data...
Siemens Insights Hub Private Cloud Vulnerabilities: Assessing Critical Risks and Proactive Defense in Industrial IoT
As the digital backbone of the modern manufacturing revolution, Siemens’ Insights Hub Private Cloud has become a linchpin for data-driven industrial operations globally. However...
Every update to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog is a signal flare for organizations across the digital landscape: the threat is not abstract, and these risks are no longer about “what if,” but rather “when and where.” The recent catalog addition of CVE-2025-24813, an Apache Tomcat...
Catch up on the latest capabilities for Windows 11 management and security, and you’ll quickly realize these aren’t just incremental updates—they’re signals of a rapidly evolving operating system that balances AI innovation with practical, day-to-day improvements in productivity, security, and...
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When the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issues a rare Malware Analysis Report (MAR), security professionals across the Windows and wider enterprise world take notice. In late March 2025, CISA published such a report for a new malware variant dubbed RESURGE, associated...