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Security Copilot Agents Included with Microsoft 365 E5

🛡️ Microsoft is including Security Copilot agents in Microsoft 365 E5, embedding AI-driven assistants across Defender, Entra, Intune, and Purview to accelerate investigations and automate routine tasks. The rollout begins today for existing Security Copilot customers on E5 and will expand to all E5 tenants in the coming months with a 30-day notification. The announcement adds 12 Microsoft-built preview agents, 30+ partner agents, and support for customer-built agents to tailor workflows.

Ambient and Autonomous Security for the Agentic Era

🛡️ At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft set out an ambient, autonomous security approach for the emerging agentic era and announced a suite of tools to observe, secure, and govern AI agents and apps. The centerpiece is Microsoft Agent 365, a control plane providing an Entra-based registry, access controls, visualization, and integrations with Defender, Entra, and Purview to detect prompt-injection, prevent leakage, and enable auditing. Microsoft also expanded platform protections, enhanced Copilot data controls in Purview, and positioned Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot as agentic security pillars for detection and response.

Microsoft Security Store Unites Partners and Innovation

🔐 Microsoft Security Store, released to public preview on September 30, 2025, is a unified, AI-powered marketplace that lets organizations discover, buy, and deploy vetted security solutions and AI agents. Catalog items — organized by frameworks like NIST and by integration with products such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview — address threat protection, identity, compliance, and cloud security. Built on the Microsoft Marketplace, it provides unified billing, MACC eligibility, and guided automated provisioning to streamline deployments.

Securing Agentic AI: Microsoft Ignite Security Guide

🔒 Microsoft Ignite 2025 highlights security-focused sessions and hands-on labs tailored for practitioners and leaders. Join in San Francisco Nov 17–21 (or online Nov 18–20) for briefings, demos, and instructor-led labs covering Microsoft Security Copilot, Sentinel, Defender, Entra, and Purview. A Security Forum (Nov 17) and keynote segments led by senior security executives will explore designing, governing, and protecting agentic AI across the lifecycle.

Microsoft Purview Study: 30% Reduction in Breach Risk

🔒 The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by Microsoft found that Microsoft Purview reduced the likelihood of data breaches by 30% for a composite organization, yielding more than $225,000 in annual savings from avoided incidents and fines. The report credits unified governance, automated classification, and fine‑tuned DLP policies with a 75% reduction in investigation time and 75% time savings for users searching and classifying data. Over three years the study shows $3.0M in benefits versus $633,000 in costs (NPV $2.3M; ROI 355%).

Microsoft Purview Updates for Fabric: Securing Data for AI

🔒 Microsoft announced Purview innovations for Fabric at FabCon to unify discovery, protection, and governance across Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Fabric. New generally available controls include Information Protection policies for Fabric items, DLP for structured data in OneLake, and Insider Risk Management for Fabric. Preview features add DSPM data risk assessments and enhanced Copilot controls, while the Unified Catalog gains finer metadata, tagging, and data‑quality workflows to improve discoverability and trust.