6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (203+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps was originally introduced as Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS), a CASB service later rebranded and integrated into the broader Microsoft Defender suite as Microsoft Defender for Cloud…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (762+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops Microsoft added a "coverage and maturity" page with four tiers'Connected, Protected, Fortified, and Resilient'though the criteria for each tier remain unpublished. The identity inventory now separates human accounts from service accounts, application…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (528+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables AI applications to connect consistently to external tools, data sources, and systems. It defines how an AI "host" and MCP servers…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (976+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops Microsoft Sentinel playbooks are automated workflows that apply predefined response procedures to alerts and incidents. These workflows use data from connected sources such as Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure logs, and security devices,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (606+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops The integrated browser now maintains its own zoom level, tracked separately from VS Code's interface zoom and remembered per site. A right-click context menu provides standard browser actions (Copy, Paste, Open in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (786+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops With departmental billing, you can break down backup costs by Azure subscription, limit backup management to specific departmental administrators, and prevent unauthorized backup charges from other departments. The feature implements RBAC to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (969+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops PowerShell 7.6 includes updated versions of three built-in modules that ship with PowerShell. The most significant update affects PSReadLine v2.4.5, which controls how you interact with the PowerShell command line. This module manages features…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (962+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) were originally designed for rendering video games, but their ability to perform massive parallel calculations made them perfect for training neural networks. Today, they remain the "Swiss Army…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago  (316+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops Three Microsoft certificates are affected: Microsoft Corporation KEK CA 2011, Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011, and Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011. Microsoft is replacing them with 2023 equivalents, most notably Windows UEFI CA 2023, Microsoft UEFI CA…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (803+ words) 4sysops - The online community for sys and AI ops Anthropic introduced it in November 2024 as an open standard that uses a client-server architecture in which AI applications act as clients and specialized servers expose resources such as databases, APIs, and file…...