Regulatory Compliance
The latest Regulatory Compliance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Packet Power ICS Flaw Lets Attackers Seize Control of Energy Grids Without Login
A remotely exploitable authentication bypass in Packet Power’s energy monitoring devices has thrust the industrial control system (ICS) world into an urgent patching cycle. Designated...
Azure Backup’s Enterprise Lock-In: How a 10-Hour Outage Revealed the Hidden Costs of Cloud-Native Protection
When a DDoS attack knocked out a major Azure region for 10 hours earlier this year, it wasn’t just websites that went dark—backup and restore operations for thousands of businesses ground to a...
NTT DATA’s New Microsoft Cloud Unit Nets 100+ Enterprise AI Deals in Just 90 Days
NTT DATA has launched a stand‑alone Global Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud, and within 90 days it already has more than 100 enterprise AI opportunities on its books. That blistering pace of...
Windows 11 'Action Advised' Alert Deceives Users Into OneDrive Subscriptions
Microsoft has planted a new notification in the Windows 11 Start menu that looks like a urgent system warning but is actually a thinly veiled advertisement for OneDrive cloud subscriptions. The...
NTT Data Unveils Global Microsoft Cloud Unit to Turbocharge AI-Driven Enterprise Transformation
NTT Data has launched a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud, a move executives say will accelerate enterprise adoption of secure, AI-powered cloud services amid soaring demand for...
Microsoft Fixes One Windows 11 Nag, Introduces a Harder-to-Ignore OneDrive Prompt in Start Menu
Windows 11 testers are confronting a classic good-news-bad-news scenario. In the latest Dev channel build 26200.5722, Microsoft has finally streamlined the persistent “second-chance out-of-box...
How CEWA Backed Up 90,000 Microsoft 365 Accounts in Under 40 Minutes
Forty minutes. That’s all it took for Catholic Education Western Australia to deploy an enterprise-grade backup solution protecting over 90,000 Microsoft 365 accounts and more than a petabyte of...
Windows 11 Start Menu OneDrive Backup Prompts: Balancing User Experience, Privacy, and Corporate Ambitions
The emergence of persistent oneDrive backup prompts in the Windows 11 Start Menu has ignited a new wave of debate among users, industry observers, and privacy advocates. On the surface, these prompts...
Sophos and Rubrik Launch MDR-Optimized Microsoft 365 Backup with Immutable Air-Gapped Recovery
In an era where data breaches and cyberattacks have become persistent and evolving threats, organizations are prioritizing resilience, continuity, and security for their critical digital assets. The...
End of Windows 10 Support: Essential Guide for a Secure Migration by October 14, 2025
As the clock ticks down to October 14, 2025, the global technology landscape stands at a pivotal crossroads: the official end-of-support for Windows 10. With this milestone, millions of devices will...
Sophos and Rubrik Unite to Revolutionize Microsoft 365 Backup and Recovery
As organizations increasingly rely on Microsoft 365 as the backbone of modern business collaboration and productivity, the challenge of securing this complex, cloud-first environment has grown...
Microsoft and OpenAI’s gpt-oss Models Usher in a New Era of Hybrid AI on Azure and Windows
The integration of OpenAI’s gpt-oss models into Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry Local represents a pivotal advancement—one that is already reshaping the artificial...