Vishal Shirodkar

Working at Microsoft.Iconoclast,Geek,Nerd,Marathoner,Autodidact,Gamer,Heavy Metal lover, Gearhead.

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

Lewis 🗣️"This is a day I'll never forget, and I hope it's the first of many wins that we can celebrate together."

First victory in red for Lewis 🇪🇸

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Microsoft discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action could expose CI/CD workflow secrets when AI agents process untrusted content, including issue bodies, pull request descriptions, and comments. https://t.co/EFDooX4EjU

Following our disclosure, Anthropic mitigated this issue in Claude Code version 2.1.128 by blocking access to sensitive /proc files.

Read the blog for details from our research, along with practical guidance for reducing prompt injection, over-permissive tooling, and secret exposure risks in agentic CI/CD workflows.

[Vishal Shirodkar @VishalStudio]

Check out my latest article: Microsoft Defender Experts Suite: Expert-Led Services for a New Era of Cyber Defense https://t.co/7O24cJeehG via @LinkedIn

[Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the GoI @PrinSciAdvOff]

𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 ��𝐈 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

With AI becoming central to innovation and economic progress, access to compute, datasets, and model ecosystems must be made broad, affordable, and inclusive. These resources are concentrated in a few global firms and urban centres, limiting equitable participation.

For India, democratising access means treating AI infrastructure as a shared national resource, empowering innovators across regions to build local-language tools, adapt assistive technologies, and create solutions aligned with India’s diverse needs.

The White Paper highlights key enablers aligned with India’s AI governance vision:
🔹 Expanding access to high-quality, representative datasets
🔹 Providing affordable and reliable computing resources
🔹 Integrating AI with Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

Read the White Paper here:
https://t.co/KZbBuNXAAW

[Antonio Grasso @antgrasso]

Space is evolving beyond being a technological frontier; rather, it represents an integral part of our economic future, introducing new operational dimensions for global business and innovation.

Microblog by @antgrasso #SpaceEconomy #SpaceTech

[Microsoft @Microsoft]

Today we’ve unveiled our second Fairwater AI datacenter, located in Atlanta. Each site is connected via a dedicated AI network, creating an AI superfactory that enables real-time collaboration across states to train the next generation of AI models. https://t.co/dTBgfvHPSY

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

.@satyanadella gave me and @dylan522p an exclusive tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world.

We then chatted through Satya's vision for Microsoft in a world with AGI.

0:00:00 - Fairwater 2
0:04:15 - Business models for AGI
0:13:42 - Copilot
0:20:56 - Whose margins will expand most?
0:37:12 - MAI
0:48:42 - The hyperscale business
1:03:39 - In-house chip & OpenAI partnership
1:10:30 - The CAPEX explosion
1:16:01 - Will the world trust US companies to lead AI?

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on Youtube, Apple Podcasts or Spotify to tune in.

[Merill Fernando @merill]

👋 Folks, I'm super excited to announce the launch of the Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment!

I've been working on this project for the past year at Microsoft with an extended team including our security researchers, product feature teams and docs

Here's what it does

🧵👇

[Vishal Shirodkar @VishalStudio]

Check out my latest article: Unlocking the Power of Sentinel Graph: Transforming Threat Hunting https://t.co/HrawedVVux via @LinkedIn

[Vishal Shirodkar @VishalStudio]

Check out my latest article: Building Digital Resilience in Financial Services: How DORA and Microsoft Are Shaping the Future https://t.co/4Ruq5gxVdM via @LinkedIn

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

The Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 shows how threats are evolving faster than ever, fueled by AI. https://t.co/rILMDbTHj5

Key insights from report include:

-More than 50% of cyberattacks with known motives had financial objectives such as extortion or ransom, while only 4% were motivated solely by espionage.

-For initial access, attacks targeted well-known exposure footprint, including web-facing assets (18%), external remote services (12%), and supply chains (3%).

-Meanwhile, identity-based attacks rose by 32%. More than 97% of identity attacks are password spray or brute force attacks.

-There has been an 87% increase in campaigns aimed at disrupting customer cloud environments through ransomware, mass deletion, or other destructive actions.

-Threat actors have begun using AI in malicious activities, including automated vulnerability discovery, phishing, malware or deepfake generation, data analysis, and crafting highly convincing fraudulent messages.

The report is rich with findings and observations like these on a wide range of topics, including cybercrime, identity attacks, ransomware, fraud, social engineering, cloud threats, and nation-state threat actors.

At @Microsoft, we’re taking action against these threats by disrupting cybercriminal ecosystems, sharing threat intelligence, and investing in proactive defenses to protect people, data, and critical systems.

AI is reshaping both threats and defenses. With responsible AI and cross-sector collaboration, organizations can reduce risk, safeguard identities, and build resilient systems. Read the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 for more insights and defense guidance.

[Vishal Shirodkar @VishalStudio]

Check out my latest article: Key Takeaways from Microsoft’s 2025 Responsible AI Transparency Report https://t.co/ba57R1CZuL via @LinkedIn

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We've been hard at work advancing M365 Copilot, and so have our many partners who are building agents that integrate with Copilot and Teams to transform how work gets done.

A few great examples:

[Vishal Shirodkar @VishalStudio]

Introducing Spotlighting in Azure AI Foundry: Detect and Block Cross Prompt Injection Attacks https://t.co/1Cb1yBAOJW

[Vishal Shirodkar @VishalStudio]

Check out my latest article: Safeguarding AI: Azure OpenAI Prompt Shields and Defending LLMs Against Adversarial Attacks https://t.co/iP9WHK6G3b via @LinkedIn

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Supercharged past few weeks as we push the bounds of model-forward innovation across Microsoft 365. A few highlights:

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Published today in @ScienceMagazine: a landmark study led by Microsoft scientists with partners, showing how AI-powered protein design could be misused—and presenting first-of-its-kind red teaming & mitigations to strengthen biosecurity in the age of AI.

[Microsoft Security @msftsecurity]

🚨 It started with one tiny alert. It ended with uncovering a massive retail cyberattack. See how the chase unfolded (and what you can learn from it) in our latest Cyberattack Series blog: https://t.co/5BTMrAv7ha

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Microsoft Sentinel is evolving into both the SIEM and the platform for agentic defense:

Sentinel data lake, which brings together all your security data, from Microsoft and third-party sources, is now generally available. https://t.co/BovnnJpu95

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

An important breakthrough from our teams: a new approach to liquid cooling that uses microfluidics, opening the door to more efficient, sustainable, and power-dense datacenters than conventional methods.
https://t.co/hCbOpDPWWA