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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Security teams are racing to lock down Entra ID device enrollment against a new wave of headless phishing tools. In today's briefing, we also break down Microsoft's proposal to route AI agent skills o…
We are tracking the fallout of a critical Fabric data-tier exposure alongside new architectural blueprints for isolating AI agents from deterministic enterprise workflows. Here is the latest on where …
Protocol-level security enforcement is rapidly becoming the enterprise AI standard as ServiceNow and Microsoft roll out native MCP firewalls. We're also tracking the latest automated device-code phish…
Microsoft's identity architecture is confronting a new wave of stealthy persistence threats today, stretching from rogue OIDC providers to automated device-code phishing kits. We're also tracking Cisc…
Today on The Tenant Desk: Microsoft details tenant-level restrictions for custom AI plugins, enterprise architectures pivot toward runtime governance, and Salesforce bridges its autonomous agent ecosy…
The Supreme Court has decisively ended the administration's push to rewrite mail-in voting rules ahead of November. We're also tracking a wave of emergency Windows patches to fix recent update regress…
A second federal court has halted the Postal Service's mail-in voting rules, joining new natural-language app builders in Microsoft Copilot and closed-loop sleep studies in today's edition of The Tena…
Threat groups are moving aggressively to exploit Microsoft's default passkey rollout, just as state regulators begin slamming the brakes on enterprise data center construction.
Severe regressions stemming from September's Patch Tuesday are breaking critical developer workflows and remote infrastructure today. On the security front, adversaries are advancing their passkey vis…
Microsoft is locking down the financial rules of engagement for enterprise Copilot usage, rolling out mandatory auto-apply spending caps this morning. Meanwhile, a massive new credential-hijacking cam…