As local agents have moved from experimentation into everyday work, traditional security visibility is no longer enough. Unlike static software, local agents such as coding assistants, command-line a...

Every new threat raises a familiar set of questions. Is it targeting our industry? Are we exposed? What should we investigate first?  Answering those questions takes more than another feed or a lon...

AI is transforming the attacker’s operating model, accelerating threats to unprecedented speed and scale. Yet many security operations centers still depend on fragmented data, tools, intelligence, an...

Security work extends beyond the signal Identifying a threat, exposure, or data risk is only the start. Security teams still need to assign ownership, bring together the right context, coordinate i...

Many major breaches involve compromised identities, excessive privileges, or misconfigured access. Long before ransomware detonates or data leaves the building, adversaries are quietly abusing valid ...

Microsoft Defender Monthly news - August 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defe...

What is CVE-2026-54121? CVE-2026-54121 is an authentication-bypass vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services that allows an attacker to obtain certificates for arbitrary domain compute...

Beginning August 1, the final phase of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) convergence will be generally available in the Defender portal, giving customers real-time Microsoft threat intell...

Co-author(s): Amit Cohen and Hadar Shindler Operational technology (OT) environments are unlike anything else in cybersecurity. The systems that run our factories, power grids, water treatment pla...

Microsoft Defender Monthly news - July 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defend...