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09/01/2026

Copilot capabilities keep expanding, and the gap is usually knowing which ones apply to your work. Message us for a 1:1 demo of the latest enhancements. 🤝 Copilot

09/01/2026

See more of an attack--and respond faster. Microsoft Defender XDR coordinates detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications, helping security teams connect signals and take action.

Read this Microsoft Learn tutorial to explore how coordinated XDR can strengthen your security operations. Security

Disconnected security signals can make threats harder to understand and slower to contain. This Microsoft Learn tutorial explores how Microsoft Defender XDR coordinates detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications--helping security teams co...

08/31/2026

Handing complex, multi-step work to AI raises a reasonable question about how it was built.

In this video, Copilot Cowork builders Steve Gustavson, Bas Brekelmans, and Christopher Whitten share the thinking behind tools that take on that work so people can focus on tasks needing personal attention.

Watch the video, then message us to talk through where Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork fits your workflows. 💬 Copilot

Who builds an AI agent you'd trust with complex work? In this video, Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork builders Steve Gustavson, CVP Cowork Design and Research, Bas Brekelmans, Partner Software Engineer, and Christopher Whitten, Engineering Manager, share insights on tools that let you delegate multi-ste...

08/31/2026

AI reached production faster than the governance, integration, and measurement practices meant to keep it accountable.

This MarketScale article covers the ROI gap, the risk of institutional knowledge living inside platforms you don't own, and what belongs in your next AI vendor contract.

🔐 Read the article to see where your AI risk management needs attention.

Who owns what your AI has learned? This MarketScale article examines the distance between fast deployment and slower governance, covering data ownership, audit rights, and exit portability in AI platform agreements. Read the article to prepare for your next vendor review.

08/31/2026

The model selection debate is winding down, and the harder questions are how to govern AI agents and prove what they return.

This MarketScale article collects practitioner perspectives on orchestration middleware, architecture fragmentation, and the CFO conversations arriving with Q3 budget reviews.

⚙️ Read the article for a practical view of where enterprise AI priorities are heading.

What happens when picking the best model stops being the differentiator? This MarketScale article brings together enterprise architects and CIOs on AI gateways, orchestration middleware, observability, and behavior-based governance for agents. It also covers the measurement shift from deployment cou...

08/31/2026

When fragmented security tools complicate IT, the visibility of growing cloud footprints gets blurry.

Australian timber supplier AKD, got clarity by consolidating identity, cloud, endpoint, and data protection on a Microsoft Security platform that integrated Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Entra. With a Microsoft 365 E5 license that included 24/7 SOC monitoring, the move enabled the company to raise its Secure Score by 10% in three months. Get the story to learn from AKD's experience. Security

From reactive defense to proactive protection. As AKD's cloud footprint grew, its security tools grew fragmented, leaving a small IT staff with limited visibility. This customer story shows how the Australian timber supplier consolidated identity, cloud, endpoint, and data protection with Microsoft....

08/25/2026

Reshaping business processes with AI at the core delivers more than incremental gains.

The Microsoft eBook, "Four Paths to Business Value with AI," points to results including double-digit productivity improvement and a 99% reduction in time spent searching for business-critical information.

To see what reshaping a process can deliver, download the eBook today. 📈 365

Where does improving a process stop and reshaping it begin? The Microsoft eBook, "Four Paths to Business Value with AI," shows how organizations reimagine workflows and operations with AI at the core, citing results such as double-digit productivity improvement and a 99% reduction in time spent sear...

08/25/2026

Data spread across hybrid and multicloud environments makes it harder to know what you hold, where it travels, and who can reach it.

The "Crash Course in Microsoft Purview" eBook is a quick guide to regaining your visibility. Download your complimentary copy for a walkthrough of how Microsoft Purview unifies data governance, information protection, risk management, and compliance.
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What would full visibility into your data estate improve? The eBook, "Crash Course in Microsoft Purview: A guide to securing and managing your data estate," shows how Microsoft Purview unifies data governance, information protection, risk management, and compliance across hybrid and multicloud envir...

08/24/2026

Getting from a stated outcome to finished work usually means planning, chasing, and stitching pieces together across apps.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork is an AI-powered agent that plans multi-step tasks, carries them out across your Microsoft 365 apps, and delivers the finished result.

Watch the video to see what that looks like in practice, then message us to talk through where it fits your workflows. 💡 Copilot

What happens when you state an outcome and the work comes back done? This video introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, an AI-powered agent that plans multi-step tasks, carries them out across your Microsoft 365 apps, and delivers completed work. Watch the video to see how Cowork moves from a state...

08/24/2026

The window between a vulnerability being disclosed and actively exploited has compressed from weeks to hours. 🛡

This Ropes & Gray Viewpoints article walks through what that means for legal and compliance functions, covering NIS 2 notification timelines, SEC examination priorities, and the CISA reporting rule expected in September 2026.

Read the article for the four steps its authors say organizations should take now.

How fast can your organization patch a critical vulnerability when exploitation now takes minutes? This Ropes & Gray Viewpoints article, "Regulatory Frontier: Cybersecurity In A World Of New AI Models," maps the regulatory response taking shape across the EU, UK, and US, and outlines four steps to t...