Cloud Security
The latest Cloud Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Enterprise AI’s Tipping Point: This Week’s Announcements Embed Intelligence in the Stack
Enterprise AI quietly crossed a threshold this week, with a series of announcements that embed artificial intelligence so deeply into computing fabric that it begins to disappear. On July 4, 2026,...
Exeter MSP Nexus Secures Five Microsoft Partner Badges for Cloud and AI Prowess
Nexus, an Exeter-based managed service provider, has become one of the few UK partners to simultaneously hold five Microsoft Solutions Partner designations—a milestone that underscores the firm’s...
CVE-2026-26145: Microsoft Flags Privilege Escalation Flaw in Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft has confirmed a new privilege escalation vulnerability in its cloud analytics service, Azure Synapse, tracked as CVE-2026-26145. The flaw, disclosed through the company's Security Update...
Frost & Sullivan 2026 Radar: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Leads Runtime Security, Redefining Cloud Protection
Microsoft has secured a coveted top spot in Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Frost Radar for Cloud/Application Runtime Security, the company announced on July 1, 2026. The analyst firm placed Microsoft...
IFI Techsolutions Earns Azure Expert MSP Status Fourth Year Running, Proving Cloud Mastery
IFI Techsolutions Limited, a Mumbai-headquartered Microsoft cloud partner, has renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) status for the fourth consecutive year, the company...
AZ-900 No Longer Standalone: Microsoft Launches Role-Based Azure Certification Tracks for 2026
Microsoft is quietly rolling out a redesigned Azure certification roadmap for 2026 that retains the popular AZ-900 fundamentals exam as the universal on-ramp but now diverts learners into four...
Azure Administration Skills in 2026: Security, Cost Control, and Identity Mastery Are Non-Negotiable
Microsoft reports that 95% of Fortune 500 companies now rely on Azure, and global cloud spending is projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2026. This isn’t a gradual shift—it’s a tidal wave of...
NTT DATA’s WinWire Clinches Microsoft Frontier Badge for Scalable, Governed Agentic AI
WinWire, a Santa Clara-based NTT DATA company, has secured the Microsoft Frontier Partner badge within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, marking a significant validation of its ability to...
Azure Certifications 2026: Your Practical Guide to AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-500, and AZ-305
Microsoft’s Azure certification roster has swelled to over 30 role-based exams, but four names still dominate every cloud career conversation: AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-500, and AZ-305. In 2026 the...
AWS Summit HK 2026 Declares Agentic AI the Next Enterprise Cloud Workload, Demos Autonomy
Amazon Web Services wasted no time at its annual Hong Kong Summit on June 17, 2026, telling a packed audience that agentic AI is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s the next enterprise cloud...
Palo Alto Networks Unifies Cloud Defense: How Prisma Cloud’s Single Risk Model Secures Containers, Identities, and Compliance
Palo Alto Networks has pushed the cloud security envelope further with Prisma Cloud, a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that consolidates posture management, workload protection,...
Nadella: Multi-Model AI Critical to Legitimacy, Not Monopoly Copilot Control
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has issued a stark warning that the artificial intelligence industry risks losing public legitimacy if a handful of dominant companies are allowed to control the...