What is Microsoft Security Copilot?
Microsoft Security Copilot is a generative AI-powered security solution that helps security teams with incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and posture management. The service offers a standalone, natural-language interface and is also embedded into products in the Microsoft security portfolio, including Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft Entra, as well as third-party solutions such as ServiceNow via plugins.
Security Copilot uses underlying language models in combination with security-specific plugins, organization-specific information, and global threat intelligence to answer queries. User prompts are enriched before processing (“grounding”), and the model’s response is then post-processed with additional context from plugins.
The service is currently designed for commercial clouds and is not intended for US government cloud environments (GCC, GCC High, DoD, Azure Government).
Core Features
Incident investigation and remediation: Summarizing complex security alerts into actionable overviews, including step-by-step recommendations.
Query and script analysis: Automatic generation of KQL queries as well as analysis and explanation of suspicious scripts in natural language.
Posture management: Prioritized overview of risks and improvement opportunities in the organization’s security posture.
Policy support: Creating, cross-referencing, and summarizing security policies.
Reporting: Automatic generation of reports tailored to different audiences (e.g., management, technical teams).
Extensibility via plugins and agents: Integrating custom data sources through plugins, and developing and adding custom agents to the Security Copilot ecosystem.
Typical Use Cases
Incident triage: Analysts ask about the course of an incident and receive a summary with timeline, affected assets, and recommended actions.
Threat intelligence: Analysis of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), explanation of malware families, and mapping of attack techniques to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
Report generation: Automatic creation of executive summaries, incident reports, and compliance documentation in natural language.
Script analysis: Decoding and explanation of PowerShell scripts, suspicious command lines, or malware samples.
Benefits
- Faster triage and analysis of security incidents through natural-language interaction
- Tight integration with existing Microsoft security products
- Extensibility via plugins for third-party data sources
- Flexible, consumption-based pricing with optional inclusion in existing Microsoft 365 licenses
Frequently Asked Questions about Microsoft Security Copilot
What is Microsoft Security Copilot?
Microsoft Security Copilot is a generative AI-powered security solution that helps security teams with incident investigation, threat hunting, posture management, and reporting, and integrates tightly with the Microsoft security stack.
What are Security Compute Units (SCUs)?
SCUs are the billing unit for Security Copilot’s pay-as-you-go model. Provisioned SCUs are billed hourly, while usage beyond the provisioned capacity is billed separately as overage. Alternatively, a monthly SCU quota can be included with certain Microsoft 365 licenses (e.g., E5/E7).
Which data sources are supported?
Native integration exists with, among others, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft Entra. Third-party solutions such as ServiceNow can be integrated via plugins.
Does Security Copilot learn from my data?
Customer data is handled according to Microsoft’s privacy policies and is not used to train the underlying foundation models for other customers. EU data residency is available for regulated requirements.
Does Security Copilot replace SOC analysts?
No, Security Copilot supports analysts with repetitive tasks, accelerates triage, and explains complex matters. Decisions and professional judgment remain with human analysts.
Can I extend Security Copilot with custom data sources?
Yes, custom plugins can integrate proprietary APIs and data sources, and developers can build custom agents for the Security Copilot ecosystem.
Integration with innFactory
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, innFactory supports you in introducing Microsoft Security Copilot. We help with integration, plugin development, and SOC workflow optimization.
Contact us for a non-binding consultation on Microsoft Security Copilot.
Typical Use Cases
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