Insider Risk
The latest Insider Risk coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft to Automatically Preserve Deleted Data for High-Risk Users in Government Clouds
Microsoft has confirmed that government cloud tenants will soon be able to automatically preserve emails and files deleted by users flagged as high risk. The feature, part of the Microsoft Purview...
AI Governance: Monitoring Human-AI and Agent-to-Agent Conversations in Microsoft 365
Theta Lake dropped a bombshell on the compliance world this week. The California-based collaboration security vendor declared that organizations must start treating “aiComms”—human-to-AI and...
Exabeam's AI Agent Security Expansion: How Windows Administrators Should Prepare for New Insider Threats
Exabeam has expanded its agent behavior analytics capabilities to specifically detect AI-powered insider threats, marking a significant shift in how security teams must approach user and entity...
Microsoft Copilot Security Risks: Complete Governance Guide for Organizations
Microsoft Copilot has rapidly become an indispensable productivity tool across organizations worldwide, but this very usefulness creates one of the most significant insider risk vectors that modern...
Microsoft Delivers AI-Grade Data Governance: Purview Adds DLP, Labels, and Insider Risk Controls to Fabric
Microsoft has shipped a major round of governance and security updates for its Purview platform inside Fabric, putting automated data protection, loss prevention, and insider risk detection directly...
Microsoft’s Brad Smith Vows Investigation After Employees Storm Office Over Azure Israel Surveillance Claims
Microsoft President Brad Smith told reporters on August 26, 2025, that the company would “go investigate and get to the truth” after a group of current and former employees occupied his Redmond...
Microsoft Copilot’s ‘No Link’ Prompt Trick Caused Monthslong Audit Log Gaps, No Customer Warning
Microsoft 365 Copilot silently suppressed document access records for months whenever users asked it to summarize a file without including a source link, leaving security teams with empty audit...
LightBeam Unveils Copilot Governance Tools to Combat AI-Driven Data Exposure and Ransomware
LightBeam has released its Summer 2025 update, introducing real-time governance controls for Microsoft Copilot alongside ransomware containment—responding to the breakneck enterprise adoption of...
How AI Agents and Microsoft Copilot Are Revolutionizing Enterprise Security and Innovation
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it's a present-day reality transforming enterprise technology at an unprecedented pace. As businesses race to adopt AI solutions like...