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On September 29, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order directing US federal executive departments and agencies to replace the terms "Artificial...
At Build in May 2025, Microsoft introduced Entra Agent ID, giving AI agents their own identities in the directory. A year later, agents escaping sandboxes made the idea urgent. Here is what Agent ID does and how to govern AI agents like privileged users.
From October 15, 2024, Microsoft began enforcing MFA for the Azure portal, Entra admin center and Intune admin center, and from 2025 for Azure CLI, PowerShell and infrastructure-as-code tools. Here is what it covers, what breaks, and how to migrate automation to workload identities.
On September 16, 2024, Microsoft announced Copilot Wave 2 — Pages, agents and more — alongside tools to tackle the oversharing that stalled many pilots. Here is what changed and a practical playbook for scaling Copilot safely.
In May 2024, Microsoft previewed device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator for Entra ID — making phishing-resistant MFA possible on phones employees already carry. Here is how passkeys work, why they defeat modern phishing kits, and how to roll them out.
Microsoft 365 Copilot reached enterprise general availability on November 1, 2023. It respects existing permissions — which is exactly the problem in tenants with years of oversharing. Here is how Copilot uses your data and how to prepare.
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft ended support for Windows 10. After that date, Windows 10 devices stopped receiving free security updates, unless enrolled in...
At Microsoft Ignite in November 2024, security announcements centered on resilience and exposure. Two stood out: the Windows Resiliency Initiative, a...
In November 2024, AWS launched centralized root access management for AWS Organizations. It lets security teams remove root user credentials from member...
On April 2, 2024, the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) published its report on the Storm-0558 intrusion, in which Chinese state actors used a stolen...
On November 2, 2023, Microsoft announced the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), a company-wide security commitment following a series of high-profile...
On July 11, 2023, Microsoft announced that Azure Active Directory would be renamed Microsoft Entra ID. The change rolled out across portals, documentation...
In April 2023, AWS changed the default settings for all new S3 buckets: S3 Block Public Access is enabled, and access control lists (ACLs) are disabled...
On March 28, 2023, Microsoft announced Microsoft Security Copilot, a generative AI assistant for security teams built on OpenAI's GPT-4 and Microsoft's...
On January 5, 2023, AWS began automatically applying server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) to all new objects uploaded to S3, at no...
At AWS re:Invent in November 2022, AWS announced previews of Amazon Security Lake and AWS Verified Access, alongside other security updates.
Beginning October 1, 2022, Microsoft started permanently disabling Basic Authentication in Exchange Online for Exchange ActiveSync, POP, IMAP, Remote...
In May 2022, Microsoft announced Microsoft Entra, a new product family for identity and access. Azure Active Directory became part of Entra, and in July...
Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) changed how quickly Microsoft Entra ID can cut off access. Microsoft announced general availability in early 2022 after a...
At Microsoft Ignite in November 2021, Microsoft combined Azure Security Center and Azure Defender into a single product: Microsoft Defender for Cloud. It...
On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, in response to SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange...
In November 2020, AWS Network Firewall became generally available — a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion prevention service for Amazon VPCs.
At Microsoft Ignite in September 2020, Microsoft reorganized its security products under a single brand: Microsoft Defender. The change reflected its...
In March 2020, Amazon Detective became generally available. It helps security teams investigate findings from GuardDuty and other sources by automatically...