Microsoft Security Copilot is a generative-AI assistant that lets security analysts investigate incidents, summarize alerts, and query telemetry from Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and other Microsoft security tools using natural-language prompts. Microsoft took it to general availability worldwide on April 1, 2024, after a private preview, and it is billed separately from other Microsoft 365 or security licenses on a pay-as-you-go security-compute-unit basis. It has since expanded into standalone AI agents for tasks like phishing triage and threat-intel summarization, but it only draws on the Microsoft security products an organization already has connected — it does not replace them.
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Microsoft Security Copilot is a generative-AI assistant that lets security analysts investigate incidents, summarize alerts, and query telemetry from Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and other Microsoft security tools using natural-language prompts. Microsoft took it to general availability worldwide on April 1, 2024, after a private preview, and it is billed separately from other Microsoft 365 or security licenses on a pay-as-you-go security-compute-unit basis. It has since expanded into standalone AI agents for tasks like phishing triage and threat-intel summarization, but it only draws on the Microsoft security products an organization already has connected — it does not replace them.
