Chris Paoli

1 week ago | redmondmag.com | Chris Paoli

News IBM has launched a new software stack aimed squarely at enterprise IT teams tasked with managing the complex governance and security challenges posed by autonomous AI systems. The company’s new offering, announced on Wednesday, aims to unify its watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security platforms to provide centralized oversight of agentic AI, a category of generative AI that performs tasks autonomously without direct human prompts.

1 week ago | rcpmag.com | Chris Paoli

News Nearly overnight, organizations are facing brand-new challenges caused by self-directed AI systems (a.k.a. agentic AI). Big Blue is extending them some help. This week, IBM debuted a new software suite designed to help enterprises tackle the growing oversight problems related to AI agents. The solution combines governance and security functions to give IT teams greater control over autonomous AI technologies, which can act independently of human prompts.

1 week ago | redmondmag.com | Chris Paoli

News Microsoft has introduced a new vendor ecosystem for Microsoft Defender for Office 365, expanding its Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) strategy through open APIs and tighter integration with third-party solutions. The update, announced Tuesday , allows e-mail security vendors to plug directly into the Defender platform to improve threat detection, policy enforcement and post-delivery remediation, according to the company.

2 weeks ago | redmondmag.com | Chris Paoli

News Security researchers at Calif.-based Proofpoint have uncovered a large-scale account takeover campaign aimed at Microsoft Entra ID environments. The attackers are using TeamFiltration, an open source penetration testing tool, to automate their efforts. Proofpoint reported that more than 80,000 user accounts across 100 Microsoft cloud tenants have been targeted since 2024.

2 weeks ago | redmondmag.com | Chris Paoli

News Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday is here with fixes for 66 vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, including one actively exploited zero-day, one publicly disclosed zero-day flaw and a set of unpatched Office flaws that security researchers say could be far more dangerous than the numbers suggest.