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9 MIN READ / Technical article
Defender for Cloud Beyond the Secure Score
Review posture, workload protection, and deployment coverage before enabling additional plans.
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June 2026
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2 MIN READ / Technical article
Intune or Jamf for Mac Management Choosing by Use Case and Scale
Choose Mac management through a tested workload matrix rather than fleet size alone.
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6 MIN READ / Technical article
Is AI the New Phish
Untrusted content can turn a helpful AI answer into a delivery path for unsafe instructions.
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2 MIN READ / Technical article
Taming Microsoft Sentinel Costs Without Losing Detection
Map ingestion, retention, and query needs before changing how security telemetry is stored.
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June 2026 Technology Newsletter
A historical monthly edition covering Microsoft cloud, security, collaboration, and hybrid infrastructure updates.
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XDR value comes from connected investigations
Microsoft has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for XDR Platforms, which is worth noting.
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Device code phishing abuses legitimate sign-in flows
Another reminder that phishing has moved well beyond fake login pages and bad grammar.
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Security advice has to survive real constraints
I sometimes think the cybersecurity industry does itself a disservice.
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Invest in the gap between tools and outcomes
As we start the week, I have been thinking about a conversation that seems to come up more and more often across TechnologyLeadership and CyberSecurity.
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Technology leadership when the easy answer is unavailable
Technology leadership is tested long before the roadmap is approved or the latest innovation is announced.
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Drone adoption brings governance into the real world
China is trying to figure out what to do with drones now that they are no longer a science project.
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The technology review six months after launch
The most important meeting in any technology project is the one nobody budgets for.
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