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Mitigating Microsoft 365 Copilot access risk: Identity and device controls for Zero Trust

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AuzinAhmadi
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Jul 07, 2026

Moving from mapping risk to reducing it, this post walks through how to mitigate the six Layer 1 identity and device risks (R1–R6) that determine who can access Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Co-authored by AtilGurcan In our previous post, we mapped where exposure can exist when organizations deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot and grouped those risks into two layers. Layer 1 focused on ...
Updated Aug 20, 2026
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Dean_Gross
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Jul 14, 2026

This is a very practical and straight forward set of recommendations. It would be helpful if you could get them added to the initiatives in the defender exposure management service