OtherAugments Human LaborVerified

Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, March 22, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.

Microsoft offers Security Copilot, a generative AI assistant for security and IT professionals, generally available worldwide since April 2024. It processes natural language questions from analysts and returns findings drawn from Microsoft's global threat intelligence to help teams detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents. In March 2025, Microsoft announced six autonomous AI agents for Security Copilot, available for preview in April 2025, designed to handle high-volume tasks such as phishing triage, access policy optimization, and vulnerability remediation without requiring step-by-step human input.

Details

Announced in March 2023, Security Copilot reached general availability on April 1, 2024 with pay-as-you-go pricing of $4 per hour per Security Compute Unit. It integrates with Microsoft's full security product portfolio including Defender XDR, Sentinel, and Microsoft Entra. The AI processes natural language questions and returns findings that would otherwise require hours of manual investigation — for example, tracing how an attacker moved through a network. In March 2025, Microsoft unveiled six autonomous AI security agents capable of independently triaging phishing alerts, flagging identity risks, and optimizing access policies. Microsoft's internal studies found that security analysts were 22% faster and 7% more accurate with Security Copilot than without it. As of November 2025, it is included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 E5 customers.

Products affected

Microsoft Security CopilotMicrosoft Defender XDRMicrosoft SentinelMicrosoft EntraMicrosoft IntuneMicrosoft PurviewMicrosoft 365 E5

Sources & Evidence

News Article

https://news.microsoft.com/en-cee/2024/03/15/microsoft-copilot-for-security-generally-available-on-april-1-with-new-capabilities/

News Article

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/securitycopilotblog/automate-cybersecurity-at-scale-with-microsoft-security-copilot-agents/4394675

News Article

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-xdr/phishing-triage-agent

News Article

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/pricing/microsoft-security-copilot

News Article

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/securitycopilotblog/microsoft-copilot-for-security-general-availability-details/4079970

News Article

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftthreatprotectionblog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-microsoft-defender-xdr-at-secure-2025/4390817

News Article

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/securitycopilotblog/microsoft-copilot-for-security-is-now-generally-available/4101223

News Article

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/11/18/agents-built-into-your-workflow-get-security-copilot-with-microsoft-365-e5/

Company Disclosure

Company DisclosureVerified

What is Microsoft Security Copilot?

Microsoft Learn

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/security/microsoft-security-copilot

Company DisclosureVerified

Microsoft unveils Microsoft Security Copilot agents and new protections for AI

Microsoft Security Blog·Mar 2025

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/24/microsoft-unveils-microsoft-security-copilot-agents-and-new-protections-for-ai/

Company DisclosureVerified

Microsoft Copilot for Security is generally available on April 1, 2024, with new capabilities

Microsoft Security Blog·Mar 2024

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/03/13/microsoft-copilot-for-security-is-generally-available-on-april-1-2024-with-new-capabilities/

Cite this record

Trace Foundation. (2026). Microsoft: Microsoft offers Security Copilot, a generative AI assistant for security and IT professionals, generally available worldwide since April 2024. It processes natural language questions from analysts and returns findings drawn from Microsoft's global threat intelligence to help teams detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents. In March 2025, Microsoft announced six autonomous AI agents for Security Copilot, available for preview in April 2025, designed to handle high-volume tasks such as phishing triage, access policy optimization, and vulnerability remediation without requiring step-by-step human input (data as of 2026-06-06) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/d78076d3-c5b9-4606-b074-5ffa2ae1e8bc. Accessed October 13, 2026.

Stable link: https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/d78076d3-c5b9-4606-b074-5ffa2ae1e8bc
Data as of: June 6, 2026
Last verified: March 22, 2026

How to cite AI Trace

Other practices by Microsoft

OtherProject InnerEye is a Microsoft Research initiative that uses AI to analyze 3D medical scans — primarily CT scans used for cancer radiotherapy planning — and automatically highlight the areas that need treatment. Peer-reviewed research found it can complete this task up to 13 times faster than a clinician doing it manually, while staying within the range of human expert accuracy.OtherSeeing AI is a free Microsoft app for people who are blind or have low vision. It uses the phone's camera and AI to narrate the world around the user — reading text out loud, identifying products by barcode, describing scenes, and recognizing faces. It launched on iOS in 2017 and became available on Android in December 2023, supporting 18 languages.OtherWindows Recall is an AI feature for Windows 11 that continuously takes screenshots of everything on a user's screen and stores them locally, so the user can later search their own history by typing questions like "find that recipe I was looking at last week." Announced in May 2024, it faced immediate criticism from security and privacy experts and was delayed multiple times before a limited release.

Have evidence about Microsoft's AI practices? Submit a report.

Report a Sighting →