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New metrics provide visibility into usage patterns, while expanded controls improve governance over content sources in Purview platform.
The company and ISV partners deliver agents that inject new functions into Copilot, Defender, and other Microsoft platforms, driving significant growth in the security ecosystem.
WorkIQ-powered Copilot Cowork orchestrates complex tasks to the point that agents could take over one-fifth of any team’s work in the near term, while hastening the end of app-driven workflows.
Anthropic Claude-powered feature headlines Copilot Wave 3 announcement. Other enhancements include app-native Copilots and the Microsoft 365 E7 ‘Frontier Suite.’
As enterprises require AI models to deliver consistent, secure performances on a regular basis, organizations need an AI-ready security foundation that protects their data, meets regulatory demands, and brings order.
Recent events in the US and Canada highlight the privacy-public safety dichotomy, as well as questions on the responsibility of AI firms in sharing signals of future harm.
New products deliver visibility, governance, and data protection controls over agents built internally as well as those from Microsoft and third parties.
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.
AI models can classify and analyze content to assess whether it is likely to be machine-generated, aiding in detection at scale. The Microsoft stack support a fraud-resistant-by-design security posture.
Mason Siefert defines the impact that the general availability of the Sentinel MCP Server has on enterprises and security teams in this AI Agent & Copilot Minute.
Security teams are gaining extended visibility to understand conditions across lengthy time periods, ushering in what Microsoft is calling the Agentic SOC era.
New feature called Rubrics Refinement is intended to assure alignment between agent quality scores generated by AI and those generated by humans.
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.
BNY, Boston Scientific detail AI initiatives, including the value of AI agents as digital employees and approaches to sensitive data protection. They spoke at the Microsoft AI Tour in New York.
With multi-agent systems being rolled out aggressively, customers need to emphasize operational controls, performance analysis, and governance.
Defender enhancements include services, dedicated engineering resources for proactive and reactive threat defenses, as well as strengthening overall security posture for the AI era.
AJ Ansari joins John Siefert to examine how leaders can cut through AI hype, choose the right problems to solve, and bring home measurable value from the AI Agent & Copilot Summit.
Cross App Access, being added as a core part of the MCP specification, allows centralized management of user entitlements, closing a gap that currently exists with some MCP servers.