I’m excited to share the latest enhancements and capabilities rolling out across the Microsoft Defender platform:
Highlights from this month’s update:
- Sentinel → Defender integration: The migration of Microsoft Sentinel experience into Microsoft Defender continues, aiming to streamline security operations into a unified, AI-powered interface.
- Strong ROI findings: A recent Forrester TEI study shows Microsoft Defender delivers 242% return on investment over three years.
- Custom detection rules: Enhanced capabilities for custom detections in the connected Sentinel workspace are helping customers gain more precision in threat detection.
- New exploration features in hunting and incident investigation:
- Defender for Cloud Apps: In public preview — real-time runtime protection for Copilot Studio agents, with built-in defenses against prompt injection and suspicious behavior.
- Defender for Identity advances:
- Office 365 enhancements: Near real-time URL protection in Teams — warnings will be attached to malicious links detected up to 48 hours after delivery, across chats, channels, and meeting conversations.
- Security Exposure Management updates:
- Threat intelligence & threat hunting: Microsoft’s teams continue to uncover AI-obfuscated phishing campaigns and evolution in malware like XCSSET, underlining the growing sophistication of attacks.
This breadth of updates reflects how Microsoft is pushing the margins in AI-driven security, sentinel convergence, and preventive detection. If any of the new features align with your roadmap, let's discuss how we can adopt them together.
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