Non-story; quote from a previous non-Paywall article:
> "We were testing endpoint control systems for LLMs and inadvertently turned them on for all employees," a spokesperson said. They added: "As we have said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections."
Keep in mind Microsoft themselves develop and sell endpoint control systems, including lists of "bad" sites to optionally block. Microsoft also dogfoods their own stuff. It isn't difficult to imagine how this occurred.
"Customers would like to block it". That list frequently includes Microsoft services that a customer doesn't pay for, and therefore wants to eliminate.
A lot of financial companies have an allowlist approach to their firewalls, so if it's not on the list it needs to be blocked.
> "We were testing endpoint control systems for LLMs and inadvertently turned them on for all employees," a spokesperson said. They added: "As we have said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections."
Keep in mind Microsoft themselves develop and sell endpoint control systems, including lists of "bad" sites to optionally block. Microsoft also dogfoods their own stuff. It isn't difficult to imagine how this occurred.