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Streamline privacy management with Microsoft Priva

Protect and govern personal information, reduce privacy risks, and manage subject rights requests at scale with Microsoft Priva privacy risk management solutions.

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August 27 2 min read

What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026

This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments.
August 25 6 min read

The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane

Organizations need protection that operates in the gap between discovery and remediation.
August 4 6 min read

Advance Zero Trust for AI: New tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps

Microsoft expands its Zero Trust for AI strategy to enhance security for AI and DevSecOps environments with new tools and guidance.
July 30 5 min read

What’s new in Microsoft Security: July 2026

This month’s updates help security and IT teams secure their AI environments, use AI to defend, and strengthen the foundations that AI-powered operations depend on.
Simplify endpoint management with Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based unified endpoint management platform that empowers IT to manage, assess, and protect apps and devices.

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July 29 4 min read

Better security starts with better questions

Learn how better questions, trusted AI, and human judgment help security leaders make confident decisions and build resilient systems.
July 17 7 min read

Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2026: Defending trust in the age of AI and supply chain attacks

Join Microsoft Security at Black Hat USA 2026 for supply chain research, hands-on security experiences, expert conversations, and our reception.
July 10 4 min read

Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative

Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity.
July 6 6 min read

5 insights from Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Frost Radar™ for Cloud Security Posture Management

Read five key learnings from the Frost & Sullivan 2025 Frost Radar™ for CSPM to learn how CSPM is evolving from point-in-time compliance to continuous risk management.
Secure and verify every identity with Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Entra expands beyond identity and access management with new product categories such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and decentralized identity.

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July 1 5 min read

Microsoft named a leader in the Frost Radar for cloud and application runtime security

Frost & Sullivan names Microsoft a leader as cloud and application security converge into unified, runtime risk reduction.
June 30 4 min read

What’s new in Microsoft Security: June 2026

This month’s updates help security and IT teams strengthen identity and multicloud foundations, protect data wherever it lives, and secure the developer workflows powering AI innovation.
June 30 6 min read

Securing AI agents: When AI tools move from reading to acting

MCP tool poisoning turns trusted AI agents into a control plane for data loss.
June 29 9 min read

Chromium extension uses AI‑related branding to redirect browser search

A malicious Chromium-based extension that spoofs the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity AI redirects browser search traffic using MV3 APIs and intermediary infrastructure.