Security expert Sami Laiho explains how specialization, stolen identities and AI are making familiar attacks faster, cheaper and more scalable.

Updates to Managed Identities and TLS 1.3 Across Azure IoT Services reduce reliance on shared secrets.

Latest SQL Server Management Studio release adds database administration and development improvements.

Microsoft is turning to its specialized MAI models to cut costs and improve performance while retaining OpenAI and Anthropic options.

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday release is smaller than July's record-breaking update, but only by the standards of what has quickly become a new era of massive monthly security drops.

Remote-access expert Richard Hicks explains how organizations can replace broad VPN connectivity with identity-driven, application-level access controls.

AI-powered digital twins are transforming workplace surveillance by allowing employers to model, analyze and predict employee behavior.

Microsoft is offering an early look at how it is using Agent 365 to govern hundreds of thousands of artificial intelligence agents operating across its internal environment.

General availability allows organizations to receive critical security updates for Windows Server 2016 through Azure Arc after mainstream support ends.

Public preview extends Azure Private Link to IPv6, enabling private connectivity for dual-stack and IPv6-native workloads without exposing traffic to the public internet.

The enterprise debate over whether to adopt AI agents appears to be over. However, the next challenge is deciding how much authority organizations are willing to give them.

Backup capacity planning should use continuously updated forecasts that account for declining certainty and unexpected, event-driven data growth.

The White House is moving forward with a voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities and risks of advanced artificial intelligence models, though the standards guiding those evaluations remain classified.

Research released around Black Hat USA 2026 shows artificial intelligence increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity activity without replacing the attack methods defenders already face. One autonomous vulnerability-research system analyzed 3,915 open source projects in two months and confirmed 14,090 flaws, 99.4 percent of them previously unreported.

The move toward modern endpoint management is underway, but many organizations are discovering that migrating to Microsoft Intune is not a simple replacement of legacy tools.

General availability milestone enables secure-by-default protections for newly created Azure Gen2 virtual machines without additional configuration.

New capabilities add multi-agent orchestration, long-running workflows and deeper business process automation to Microsoft's AI development platform.

Backup capacity planning should account for uncertainty by using probability-based forecasts instead of relying on rigid growth assumptions.

Microsoft is warning that a Russia-linked threat group is compromising hospitality networks worldwide to target travelers with credential-stealing malware and phishing pages disguised as legitimate connectivity prompts.

Microsoft reported record fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 results on Wednesday, July 29, driven by continued strength in Azure and growing enterprise adoption of its AI offerings.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of cyber conflict as attackers use the technology to accelerate reconnaissance, uncover vulnerabilities and launch attacks faster than many security teams can respond.

A hands-on Windows 11 experiment finds that most ancient malware is harmless, but some decades-old threats can still slip past Defender.

New generally available feature helps organizations assess Linux virtual machines against CIS Benchmarks without deploying additional software.

Updated Microsoft Security Exposure Management interface helps security teams identify and assign high-priority remediation tasks across their attack surface.

Enterprise AI security is entering a new stage as organizations look beyond protecting models from prompt injection, unauthorized access and data exposure.

Synopsys is broadening its work with AMD and Microsoft to bring agentic AI deeper into autonomous engineering workflows.

Microsoft is pairing autonomous cyberdefense with new Defender protections designed to detect and block risky AI agent activity as it happens.

Hyperscale combines strong write performance, flexible storage and fast replica creation for databases of nearly any size.

The targeted espionage tool hides commands and stolen files inside calendar events while using legitimate Microsoft cloud traffic to evade detection.