Identity And Access
The latest Identity And Access coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
CISA Flags Critical Flaws in Major EV Charging Network — What Drivers and Operators Must Do Now
CISA published an industrial control systems advisory on Monday warning that vulnerabilities in the backend systems of Hydro-Québec’s Le Circuit Électrique EV charging network could allow...
Silverfort injects real-time identity checks into Microsoft Copilot Studio agents to block overprivileged AI actions
Silverfort has thrown a much-needed net over the autonomous actions of AI agents with a new early-access integration for Microsoft Copilot Studio. Announced June 8, 2026, the solution injects runtime...
Malicious Microsoft 365 Logins Surge 25% from US, UK—Stop Trusting Low-Risk Country Checkmarks
Malicious login attempts targeting Microsoft 365 accounts from the United States and United Kingdom soared by roughly 25 percent in April 2026, according to new data from Barracuda Networks. The...
Microsoft’s Craig Nelson: Red Team AI Across Data, Identity, Automation, and Logs
Security teams must stop treating AI models as isolated black boxes and start red teaming the entire application stack—data connections, identity systems, automation layers, and logs—if they want...
FBI Warns Kali365 Phishing Steals OAuth Tokens to Bypass MFA in Microsoft 365
The FBI has issued an urgent public warning about a phishing-as-a-service platform called Kali365 that is systematically targeting Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing device-code authentication. The...
Future-Proof Enterprise Security: Microsoft's Integration, Identity, and AI Strategy
The landscape of enterprise security is undergoing a fundamental transformation, moving from isolated point solutions to integrated strategic operating models. At the recent Microsoft Security Summit...
October 2025 Azure Front Door outage: Single config error took down global edge network for 6 hours
The October 29, 2025 Azure Front Door outage exposed critical vulnerabilities in modern cloud infrastructure, disrupting services globally for nearly six hours and revealing how a single...
Azure Front Door Outage: Config Error Disrupts Microsoft 365 and Azure for Six Hours
Microsoft's global cloud infrastructure experienced a significant outage on October 29 that disrupted services across Microsoft 365, Azure Portal, gaming platforms, and numerous customer websites for...
Azure Front Door Outage 2025: How Configuration Error Disrupted Xbox Live and Azure Services
Microsoft's cloud infrastructure experienced a significant disruption on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door—Microsoft's global edge and routing fabric—triggered...
BlinkOps agentic automation for Microsoft Sentinel slashes MTTR with no-code micro-agents
Microsoft Sentinel users now have a new weapon in their automation arsenal: BlinkOps’ agentic security platform is available immediately through the Azure Marketplace and the Sentinel Content Hub,...
Microsoft Sentinel UEBA Now Ingests AWS, GCP, Okta Logs for AI-Driven Threat Detection
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a major update to its cloud-native SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel, significantly expanding the data sources its User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) engine can digest....
Azure Arc’s Critical Local Privilege Flaw Fixed, But CVE Muddle May Leave Systems Exposed
Microsoft has patched a high-severity local elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Azure Arc, but confusion over the associated CVE identifier could cause dangerous patching delays, security...