Data breaches hit hardest in healthcare and financial services, while the firms that tap AI most aggressively are focusing on hunting threats and automating attack responses.
Cyber Security
Project Perception scales vulnerability discovery for today’s AI-powered threats. Initially available in Defender, Perception will extend across the company’s security lineup.
Microsoft enhancements to key security platforms bring shadow AI and other app/data types under unified controls with the rest of the corporate data estate.
From intrusion detection analysis to security policy enforcement, customers report low confidence in agentic AI to help protect against today’s threats.
Customers are reporting high confidence levels in AI agents managing repeatable, measurable data tasks. The picture is less bright when it comes to cloud and AI workflows.
Microsoft unveils new Copilot Studio tools to help enterprises systematically evaluate, govern, and scale AI agents with confidence.
Security Dashboard for AI is built to rein in AI sprawl with Defender, Entra, and Purview integration as well as inventory functions that span Microsoft and widely used third-party AI software.
Security teams are gaining extended visibility to understand conditions across lengthy time periods, ushering in what Microsoft is calling the Agentic SOC era.
Microsoft research finds more than 80% of security leaders say they’ll use GenAI in data security, and they’re building a series of agentic AI use cases to protect against rogue AI risks.
Search and context input are among AI-powered features being applied to make data security investigations scalable and efficient across corporate data estates.
Robust MCP component scanning options identify malicious behavior and isolate known threats before components enter the AI supply chain.
With two separate initiatives, Microsoft is bolstering its Defender platform with agentic AI to help security and ops teams combat two high-volume threats that can overwhelm humans.