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...
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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...
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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...
Siemens has republished a critical advisory that pulls a spotlight back onto a cluster of high-severity Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities found embedded inside several Siemens industrial networking products — most notably RUGGEDCOM NMS, SINEC NMS, and SINEMA family components — and is urging...
Microsoft’s recurring Windows Office Hours returns on Thursday, September 18, 2025, offering IT teams a focused, chat-based hour to get engineer-led answers on Windows 11 adoption, Zero Trust, update orchestration, and cloud/hybrid device strategies. The one-hour session is scheduled for...
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Microsoft’s Security Response Center lists CVE-2025-54095 as an out-of-bounds read in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can disclose memory contents to a remote attacker over the network. Background / Overview
Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) is a long‑standing...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
Microsoft’s next major Windows chapter is already shaping up as a defining moment for the PC era: rumors and early leaks point to a profoundly AI-centric, security-first, and modular operating system—commonly referred to as Windows 12—that could reshape how people interact with their computers...
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...
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A UK government Proof of Concept (PoC) led by Hitachi Solutions Europe has shown that Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — can securely operate on live data that remains resident in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that...
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In January, security researchers at Aim Labs disclosed a zero-click prompt‑injection flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that demonstrated how a GenAI assistant with broad document access could be tricked into exfiltrating sensitive corporate data without any user interaction—an attack class that...
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Microsoft’s internal IT organization has completed one of the most ambitious cloud migrations in corporate history — moving virtually all employee-facing systems into Azure and reshaping how the company thinks about operations, security, and engineering at scale. The transition, driven by...
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...
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...
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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...
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Windows 11 gives enthusiasts a stronger baseline, but a Virtual Private Network (VPN) remains the most practical way to extend that protection across networks, locations, and services—turning a secure machine into a truly private and travel‑ready workspace.
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Microsoft has repeatedly...
Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s decision to equip its field force with 5G-enabled Surface Copilot+ PCs and roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot across the business marks a clear inflection point in how a major R&D-centric pharmaceutical company is defining the “AI PC” era — a move intended to marry anywhere...