Microsoft is delivering new tools to give security pros greater visibility and governance over their expanding AI software estates.
Security Dashboard for AI, now available in public preview, provides a unified view of risks for efficient discovery, monitoring, and remediation of security issues across AI agents, applications, and platforms.
As AI proliferates, CISOs and AI risk leaders need a clear view – and point of consolidation — for risks such as data leaks, AI model vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and unethical agent actions.
Security Dashboard for AI, previously announced at Microsoft Ignite, aggregates posture and real-time risk signals from Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview for consolidated security and governance intelligence. Unifying risk signals simplifies AI asset visibility and oversight, increases security teams’ efficiency, and reduces the opportunities for human error.
At the time Microsoft first disclosed the security dashboard, it was part of a larger push to improve oversight of AI estates that included the Agent 365 Control Plane as well as Foundry Control Plane for developers and security agents embedded within customers’ existing workflows.
Dashboard Features
The Security Dashboard for AI enables discovery of agents and AI apps, tracks AI posture and drift, and correlates risk signals to investigate and act across a company’s AI ecosystem.
The dashboard’s Overview tab provides an AI risk scorecard for visibility into where there may be risks for security teams to address. It also assesses an organization’s implementation of Microsoft security capabilities and provides recommendations for improving overall AI security posture.
A critical dashboard feature is an AI inventory that supports asset discovery, risk assessments, and remediation actions; it covers AI agents and models, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and applications.
The dashboard provides coverage for all Microsoft AI software supported by Defender, Entra, and Purview—including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, and Microsoft Foundry applications and agents—as well as third-party AI software including Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, and MCP servers.
The dashboard leverages Security Copilot’s AI-powered insights to help find critical risks within a software stack. For example, Security Copilot natural language interaction improves agent discovery and categorization, helping to identify shadow AI agents. Security Copilot supports prompt-based exploration as security leaders investigate AI risks and agent activities.
With insights from the dashboard, customers can streamline risk mitigation recommendations and automate task delegation, significantly improving efficiency of their AI risk management processes. This, in turn, can reduce potentially hidden AI risks and accelerate compliance efforts.
Security Dashboard for AI is included when a customer has Microsoft Security products—Defender, Entra, and Purview—with no additional licensing requirements.
Security Dashboard for AI is a valuable step forward in providing enterprise-class visibility, security, and governance capabilities that customers are accustomed to with their SaaS and on-premise apps. It’s an important development in the context of AI software sprawl that, if not adequately managed, threatens to introduce a whole new set of security threats.
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Tom Smith
Analyst
Cloud Wars, Agent and Copilot
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