Mike Howard is a former CIA operations officer with 22 years of experience who led Microsoft's global security operations as the chief security officer (CSO) from 2002 to his retirement on August 31, ...

Microsoft 365 Apps security baseline 2512 blocks unsafe links, protocols, legacy automation, and outdated file-access methods. New baseline deployment supports Intune, Group Policy, and cloud policies ...

Microsoft has announced major cybersecurity advancements across its product portfolio and practices. The work is part of its Secure Future Initiative (SFI), a multiyear cybersecurity transformation ...

Microsoft acknowledged a new issue caused by the June 2025 security updates, causing the DHCP service to freeze on some Windows Server systems. On Windows Server systems, the Dynamic Host ...

Microsoft has announced new Windows 365 security defaults starting in the second half of 2025 and affecting newly provisioned and reprovisioned Cloud PCs. The company said these changes include ...

Microsoft is bringing Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Windows 11 to turn its OS into an agentic OS. At BUILD 2025, it outlined how its implementation will be secure. Microsoft has announced that it is ...

A year after launching Security Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI-powered assistant for cybersecurity professionals, the tech giant has now released six cybersecurity-focused AI agents that are being ...