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July 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday triage for financial institutions: three exploited CVEs and the SharePoint Server flaw with a Sunday federal deadline

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July 2026 Patch Tuesday: Three Exploited Flaws and What Financial Institutions Patch First

In This Article Three Flaws Are Being Exploited Right Now CVE-2026-58644: The One With a Sunday Deadline The Two That Do Not Look Like Emergencies...

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Microsoft Entra ID passwordless passkey sign-in replacing a text-message code, for banks and credit unions

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Microsoft Entra Passkeys Default and SMS and Voice MFA Retirement

In This Article What Microsoft Actually Announced Why Microsoft Is Retiring SMS and Voice The Retirement Timeline, Milestone by Milestone What...

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Now Detects Email Prompt Injection: What Financial Institutions Need to Know

In This Article The AI Now Reads Your Email What Prompt Injection Is, and Why Email Is the Delivery Vehicle How Defender for Office 365 Detects It...

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Web Grounding Domain Exclusion for Financial Institutions

In This Article What Web Grounding Actually Does in Copilot What Leaves Your Tenant, and What Does Not The New Domain Exclusion Control (MC1411435)...

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Azure CLI password-spray attack against Microsoft 365 showing 81 million login attempts and an MFA shield that did not fire

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Azure CLI Password Spray: When Your MFA Does Not Fire

In This Article What Happened: 81 Million Login Attempts Against Azure CLI Why the MFA Did Not Fire How to Close the Gap in Microsoft 365 What to...

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Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels protecting nonpublic personal information in a financial institution

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Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels for Financial Institutions: Classifying and Protecting NPI

In This Article What are Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels? How labels support GLBA and NPI protection How auto-labeling classifies NPI...

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Bank vault protected by a Microsoft 365 security shield deflecting ransomware

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Ransomware Protection for Financial Institutions

In This Article What a Ransomware Attack Does to a Financial Institution How the Attack Actually Gets In The Controls That Stop Ransomware Your...

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Microsoft Purview screen-capture protection blocking a screenshot of a confidential financial document in Microsoft Edge, with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview branding

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Microsoft Purview Closes the Screenshot Gap: What It Means for Financial Institutions

In This Article What Microsoft Changed How Sensitivity Labels Enforce Screen-Capture Protection Why the Screenshot Vector Matters for Financial...

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Custom Agents vs. Custom Skills: Two Ways to Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot for Your Team

In This Article What a Custom Skill Does What a Custom Agent Does Why Governance Is Different for Agents The SharePoint-Grounded Agent: The Fast Win...

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How a Loan-Guideline Agent Inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Changes the Way Mortgage Staff Work

In This Article What a Loan-Guideline Agent Does (and Does Not Do) How the Agent Works Inside Your Microsoft 365 Tenant Why Lenders and Credit Unions...

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