In this episode of Cloudy with a Chance of Insights, Richard, Cyrus, and David run through a fast moving set of Microsoft Cloud updates before zooming out into a bigger conversation about AI, identity, and how work actually gets done now. They cover Microsoft’s changing certification landscape, early moves to treat AI agents as identities within Zero Trust, and a series of important security and governance changes across Purview, Defender, Entra, and Intune that quietly alter how organisations protect data, devices, and access.

The discussion then shifts toward identity as the real perimeter, sparked by post breach tooling built on Microsoft Graph, before winding into a broader reflection on vibe coding and the future of applications. As AI tools make it increasingly easy for anyone to build something good enough, the team questions where real differentiation now sits, moving away from writing code and toward judgement, composition, and constraints. The episode ends with an uncomfortable but honest thought, if building tools is this easy, what does an app mean anymore, and how do organisations avoid repeating old governance mistakes, just at AI speed.

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