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A security researcher has released proof-of-concept code for a new Microsoft Defender vulnerability that can prevent the antivirus platform from installing security-intelligence and platform updates across supported versions of Windows.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud now protects Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform resources as natively as it protects Azure, and the onboarding path changed meaningfully over the summer. As of the August 4, 2026 update to Microsoft’s own documentation, the AWS and GCP connector flows both moved fully to federated, short-lived credentials, dropped long-lived…

Industrial Defender and Fortress have integrated their OT asset intelligence with AI-driven vulnerability correlation. This integration aims to significantly reduce the time needed to assess the impact of vulnerabilities on critical infrastructure. The goal is to reduce triage time from weeks to minutes, enhancing operational efficiency.