Editorial methodology
How SecurityNews collects, classifies, correlates and publishes Microsoft Security information, and how we keep it accurate.
Sources
We only use official, publicly available Microsoft sources. The current list, with live health status, is on the sources page. Restricted sources, such as a tenant’s Microsoft 365 Message Center, are never published automatically.
Collection and change detection
Feeds and APIs are checked on a schedule (hourly for MSRC, every two hours for blogs, every six hours for Microsoft Learn and the roadmap). For Microsoft Learn What’s New pages we keep a snapshot of every feature section and compare each new version against it. A change is reported when:
- a new section appears (a new feature entry),
- a section’s release status changes, for example from preview to generally available, or
- a section’s text changes substantially.
Whitespace, punctuation, link and formatting edits are ignored. Sections removed from a page are recorded but not presented as product removals, because Microsoft usually moves older entries to archive pages.
The first snapshot of each page is shown under Microsoft’s own month headings and is never presented as “detected today”.
Release status
A status label (Preview, GA, Deprecated, Retirement) appears only when Microsoft’s own wording states it. Roadmap statuses are Microsoft’s values (In development, Rolling out, Launched, Cancelled). Roadmap rollout months are Microsoft’s estimates and are always labelled as such. When no status is stated, we show none.
Duplicates and correlation
The same feature often appears on Microsoft Learn, a Tech Community post, the roadmap and the Security Blog. We merge cross-posts with near-identical titles into one item and attach the other official references to it. Roadmap IDs mentioned in the source are always linked.
Analysis articles
Most of the site is structured tracking that links to Microsoft. When SecurityNews publishes its own analysis it is labelled as such, lists every source it relies on, and only states actions or dates that the sources support. An article that hasn’t been reviewed by an editor shows a notice and is excluded from search engines until it is.
AI tools may help draft summaries in the future. If they do, drafts are checked automatically against the source (no dates, identifiers or CVEs that aren’t in the source) and must be reviewed by a person before publication.
Corrections
See our corrections policy.