Microsoft is launching the public availability of commercial controls for driver and firmware updates in the Windows Update for Business deployment services that gives organizations control over the deployment of drivers from Windows Update to eligible cloud-attached commercial devices. According to a Microsoft blog, the deployment services allows organizations with E3/E5/A3/A5 or Microsoft 365 Business […]
[Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article stated there were two exploited bugs patched this month. It has been updated to reflect the additional exploited vulnerability.] Microsoft has released patches to fix 75 security bugs in the February 2023 Patch Tuesday release, including one each in Microsoft Office, Windows Common Log File System Driver […]
Microsoft is turning collaboration tool Yammer into Viva Engage to better align with Microsoft Viva, the company’s employee experience platform within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. The Redmond, Wash. IT giant last year launched Viva Engage, which it calls an “evolution” of the Yammer Communities app in Teams. Now, all of Yammer will become Viva […]
Microsoft is releasing a new Azure DDos Protection Solution for Microsoft Sentinel that is designed to help customers identify bad actors from Azure’s DDoS security signals and block new attack vectors in other network security products, such as Azure Firewall. The Redmond, Wash. IT giant says each Azure network security service is fully integrated with […]
U.S. agencies are warning healthcare organizations and other critical infrastructure organizations to be aware of recent activity from a North Korean nation-state ransomware group that is leveraging older vulnerabilities–including Log4Shell– to gain access into victim environments. The advisory from the FBI, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other agencies gives an overview of the […]
Security operations provider Expel is releasing a new managed detection and response tool for Kubernetes designed to help organizations secure their business across their Kubernetes environment and adopt new technologies securely. According to the company, organizations are adopting Kubernetes to help developers move fast and scale, like how organizations are migrating to the cloud. The […]
Unmanaged device usage is growing among enterprises and more than three-quarters of organizations report experiencing cyberattacks due to unknown, unmanaged or poorly managed endpoints, which is leading to organizations merging their endpoint management and security teams, according to new research from endpoint security firm Syxsense. The Newport Beach, Calif.-based company’s “Endpoint Management Vulnerability Gap” report […]
IT management software provider ConnectWise is the latest tech company to announce integrations with ChatGPT, and is updating its remote monitoring and management solutions with new OpenAI-powered tools in the coming weeks. The company, which primarily provides IT management software to managed service providers, says its integration with OpenAI into the company’s existing portfolio of […]
New research shows that as cloud adoption grows, many organizations aren’t prioritizing security when storing data with cloud providers, making it easier for threat actors to compromise a business’ data in one place. The study, from New York-based cloud security firm Wiz, finds that the growth of cloud platforms in recent years and an increase […]
With artificial intelligence expected to dominate the IT landscape in 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a new document designed to help manage the risks of designing, developing, deploying or using AI systems. The Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) follows a direction from Congress, and […]
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