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Microsoft is previewing a new automatic device isolation capability in Defender for Endpoint’s auto attack disruption tool to help security pros contain cyber attacks in progress on their IT networks. The company announced the capability earlier this month in a column about new features in Defender. There’s no word on when automatic device isolation will be in full production. However, a new SANS Institute research paper warns that, in certain conditions, an attacker could leverage the new function to disable all user accounts. The lesson, said Johannes Ullrich, the institute’s dean of research, is that autonomous AI action tools have to be tuned and tested like any other automation capability. “Automatic isolation and attack disruption are not new concepts,” Ullrich said in an email, “but ideas like these have been used in the past in open source and commercial tools. This feature is most important in organizations with under-resourced IT security teams, as it automates attack respons

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Need to get up to speed on the latest features in Excel? Wrestling with an old version of Word? Looking to get more out of Windows 11? Computerworld’s cheat sheets are easy-to-use guides to help you navigate Microsoft’s core productivity software. Here’s a one-stop resource where you can find in-depth stories on several generations of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Windows, focusing on what’s new in each major release. We’ve also got guides for Windows itself, as well as Microsoft Teams, OneDrive (both in Windows and on the web), OneNote, Loop, Whiteboard, Forms, Visio, Planner, and Power Automate. Microsoft’s subscription-based office suite, called Microsoft 365, is continually updated with new features, so we periodically refresh the cheat sheets for the “365” versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other apps in the suite. But some companies and individuals will likely stay on older versions of the non-subscription software (Office 2021, for example) for some ti

Insider Brief Kawasaki Heavy Industries has launched a development hub in San Jose, Calif., “for the social deployment of physical AI” while expanding collaboration in AI and semicondictors between Japanese and U.S. technology firms. The facility will initially focus on healthcare and elder care applications before expanding into sectors including semiconductors, mobility and manufacturing, according […]

A two-decade veteran of Microsoft, Google, and Snap says the next generation of engineers will spend less time typing code and more time supervising AI.