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Index Community Calls: January 2026 | February 2026 | March 2026 Upcoming Community Calls February 2026 Feb. 23 | 8:00am | Microsoft Defender for Identity | Identity Control Plane Under Attack: Consent Abuse and Hybrid Sync Risks A new wave of identity attacks abuses legitimate authentication flows, allowing attackers to gain access without stealing passwords or breaking MFA. In this session, we’ll break down how attackers trick users into approving malicious apps, how this leads to silent account takeover, and why traditional phishing defenses often miss it. We’ll also dive into the identity sync layer at the heart of hybrid environments. You’ll learn how Entra Connect Sync and Cloud Sync are protected as Tier-0 assets, how Microsoft Defender for Identity secures synchronization flows, and how the new application-based authentication model strengthens Entra Connect Sync against modern threats. RESCHEDULED FROM FEB 10 | Feb. 25 | 8:00am | Microsoft Security Store | From Alert to Resolution: Using Security Agents to Power Real‑World SOC Workflows In this webinar, we’ll show how SOC analysts can harness security agents from Microsoft Security Store to strengthen every stage of the incident lifecycle. Through realistic SOC workflows based on everyday analyst tasks, we will follow each scenario end to end, beginning with the initial alert and moving through triage, investigation, and remediation. Along the way, we’ll demonstrate how agents in Security Store streamline signal correlation, reduce manual investigation steps, and accelerate decision‑making when dealing with three of the most common incident types: phishing attacks, credential compromise, and business email compromise (BEC), helping analysts work faster and more confidently by automating key tasks, surfacing relevant insights, and improving consistency in response actions. Feb. 26 | 9:00am | Azure Network Security | Azure Firewall Integration with Microsoft Sentinel Learn how Azure Firewall integrates with Microsoft Sentinel to enhance threat visibility and streamline security investigations. This webinar will demonstrate how firewall logs and insights can be ingested into Sentinel to correlate network activity with broader security signals, enabling faster detection, deeper context, and more effective incident response. March 2026 Mar. 4 | 8:00am | Microsoft Security Store | A Day in the Life of an Identity Security Manager Powered by Security Agents In this session, you’ll see how security agents from the Microsoft Security Store help security teams amplify capacity, accelerate detection‑to‑remediation, and strengthen identity security posture. Co‑presented with identity security experts from the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) community, we’ll walk through a day‑in‑the‑life of an identity protection manager—covering scenarios like password spray attacks, privileged account compromise, and dormant account exploitation. You’ll then see how security agents can take on the heavy lifting, while you remain firmly in control. Mar. 5 | 8:00am | Security Copilot Skilling Series | Conditional Access Optimization Agent: What It Is & Why It Matters Get a clear, practical look at the Conditional Access Optimization Agent—how it automates policy upkeep, simplifies operations, and uses new post‑Ignite updates like Agent Identity and dashboards to deliver smarter, standards‑aligned recommendations. Mar. 11 | 8:00am | Microsoft Security Store | A Day in the Life of an Identity Governance Manager Powered by Security Agents In this session, you’ll see how agents from the Microsoft Security Store help governance teams streamline reviews, reduce standing privilege, and close lifecycle gaps. Co‑presented with identity governance experts from the Microsoft MVP community, we’ll walk through a day‑in‑the‑life of an identity governance manager—covering scenarios like excessive access accumulation, offboarding gaps, and privileged role sprawl. You’ll see how agents can automate governance workflows while keeping you in control. Mar. 11 | 8:00am | Microsoft Entra | QR code authentication: Fast, simple sign‑in designed for Frontline Workers Frontline teams often work on shared mobile devices where typing long usernames and passwords slows everyone down. In this session, we’ll introduce the QR code authentication method in Microsoft Entra ID—a streamlined way for workers to sign in by scanning their unique QR code and entering a PIN on shared iOS/iPadOS or Android devices. No personal phones or complex credentials required. We’ll walk through the end‑to‑end experience, from enabling the method in your tenant and issuing codes to workers (via the Entra admin center or My Staff), to the on‑device sign‑in flow that gets your teams productive quickly. We’ll also cover best‑practice controls—like using Conditional Access and Shared device mode—to help you deploy with confidence. Bring your questions—we’ll host Q&A and collect product feedback to help prioritize upcoming investments. Mar. 11 | 5:00pm | Microsoft Entra | Building MCP on Entra: Design Choices for Enterprise Agents Explore approaches for integrating MCP with Microsoft Entra Agent ID. We’ll outline key considerations for identity, consent, and authorization, discuss patterns for scalable and auditable agent architectures, and share insights on interoperability. Expect practical guidance, common pitfalls, and an open forum for questions and feedback. Mar. 12 | 12:00pm (BRT) | Microsoft Intune | Novidades do Microsoft Intune - Últimos lançamentos Junte-se a nós para explorar as novidades do Microsoft Intune, incluindo os lançamentos mais recentes anunciados no Microsoft Ignite e a integração do Microsoft Security Copilot no Intune. A sessão contará com demonstrações ao vivo e um espaço interativo de perguntas e respostas, onde você poderá tirar suas dúvidas com especialistas. Mar. 18 | 1:00pm (AEDT) | Microsoft Entra | From Lockouts to Logins: Modern Account Recovery and Passkeys Lost phone, no backup? In a passwordless world, users can face total lockouts and risky helpdesk recovery. This session shows how Entra ID Account Recovery uses strong identity verification and passkey profiles to help users safely regain access. Mar. 19 | 8:00am | Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Data Risk Graph We’re excited to share a new capability that brings Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) together with Microsoft Sentinel through the data risk graph (public preview) What it is: The data risk graph gives you an interactive, visual map of user activity, data movement, and risk signals—all in one place. Why it matters: Quickly investigate insider risk alerts with clear context, understand the impact of risky activities on sensitive data, accelerate response with intuitive, graph-based insights Getting started: Requires onboarding to the Sentinel data lake & graph. Needs appropriate admin/security roles and at least one IRM policy configured This session will provide practical guidance on onboarding, setup requirements, and best practices for data risk graph. Mar. 26 | 8:00am | Azure Network Security | What's New in Azure Web Application Firewall Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) continues to evolve to help you protect your web applications against ever-changing threats. In this session, we’ll explore the latest enhancements across Azure WAF, including improvements in ruleset accuracy, threat detection, and configuration flexibility. Whether you use Application Gateway WAF or Azure Front Door WAF, this session will help you understand what’s new, what’s improved, and how to get the most from your WAF deployments. Looking for more? Join the Security Advisors! As a Security Advisor, you’ll gain early visibility into product roadmaps, participate in focus groups, and access private preview features before public release. You’ll have a direct channel to share feedback with engineering teams, influencing the direction of Microsoft Security products. The program also offers opportunities to collaborate and network with fellow end users and Microsoft product teams. Join the Security Advisors program that best fits your interests: www.aka.ms/joincommunity. Additional resources Microsoft Security Hub on Tech Community Virtual Ninja Training Courses Microsoft Security Documentation Azure Network Security GitHub Microsoft Defender for Cloud GitHub Microsoft Sentinel GitHub Microsoft Defender XDR GitHub Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps GitHub Microsoft Defender for Identity GitHub Microsoft Purview GitHubSecurity Copilot Skilling Series
Security Copilot joins forces with your favorite Microsoft Security products in a skilling series miles above the rest. The Security Copilot Skilling Series is your opportunity to strengthen your security posture through threat detection, incident response, and leveraging AI for security automation. These technical skilling sessions are delivered live by experts from our product engineering teams. Come ready to learn, engage with your peers, ask questions, and provide feedback. Upcoming sessions are noted below and will be available on-demand on the Microsoft Security Community YouTube channel. Coming Up February 5 | Identity Risk Management in Microsoft Entra Speaker: Marilee Turscak Identity teams face a constant stream of risky user signals, and determining which threats require action can be time‑consuming. This webinar explores the Identity Risk Management Agent in Microsoft Entra, powered by Security Copilot, and how it continuously monitors risky identities, analyzes correlated sign‑in and behavior signals, and explains why a user is considered risky. Attendees will see how the agent provides guided remediation recommendations—such as password resets or risk dismissal—at scale and supports natural‑language interaction for faster investigations. The session also covers how the agent learns from administrator instructions to apply consistent, policy‑aligned responses over time. February 19 | Agents That Actually Work: From an MVP Speaker: Ugur Koc, Microsoft MVP Microsoft MVP Ugur Koc will share a real-world workflow for building agents in Security Copilot, showing how to move from an initial idea to a consistently performing agent. The session highlights how to iterate on objectives, tighten instructions, select the right tools, and diagnose where agents break or drift from expected behavior. Attendees will see practical testing and validation techniques, including how to review agent decisions and fine-tune based on evidence rather than intuition to help determine whether an agent is production ready. March 5 | Conditional Access Optimization Agent: What It Is & Why It Matters Get a clear, practical look at the Conditional Access Optimization Agent—how it automates policy upkeep, simplifies operations, and uses new post‑Ignite updates like Agent Identity and dashboards to deliver smarter, standards‑aligned recommendations. Now On-Demand January 28 | Security Copilot in Purview Technical Deep Dive Speakers: Patrick David, Thao Phan, Alexandra Roland Discover how AI-powered alert triage agents for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Insider Risk Management (IRM) are transforming incident response and compliance workflows. Explore new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) capabilities that deliver deeper insights and automation to strengthen your security posture. This session will showcase real-world scenarios and actionable strategies to help you protect sensitive data and simplify compliance. January 22 | Security Copilot Skilling Series | Building Custom Agents: Unlocking Context, Automation, and Scale Speakers: Innocent Wafula, Sean Wesonga, and Sebuh Haileleul Microsoft Security Copilot already features a robust ecosystem of first-party and partner-built agents, but some scenarios require solutions tailored to your organization’s specific needs and context. In this session, you'll learn how the Security Copilot agent builder platform and MCP servers empower you to create tailored agents that provide context-aware reasoning and enterprise-scale solutions for your unique scenarios. December 18 | What's New in Security Copilot for Defender Speaker: Doug Helton Discover the latest innovations in Microsoft Security Copilot embedded in Defender that are transforming how organizations detect, investigate, and respond to threats. This session will showcase powerful new capabilities—like AI-driven incident response, contextual insights, and automated workflows—that help security teams stop attacks faster and simplify operations. Why Attend: Stay Ahead of Threats: Learn how cutting-edge AI features accelerate detection and remediation. Boost Efficiency: See how automation reduces manual effort and improves SOC productivity. Get Expert Insights: Hear directly from product leaders and explore real-world use cases. Don’t miss this opportunity to future-proof your security strategy and unlock the full potential of Security Copilot in Defender! December 4 | Discussion of Ignite Announcements Speakers: Zineb Takafi, Mike Danoski and Oluchi Chukwunwere, Priyanka Tyagi, Diana Vicezar, Thao Phan, Alex Roland, and Doug Helton Ignite 2025 is all about driving impact in the era of AI—and security is at the center of it. In this session, we’ll unpack the biggest Security Copilot announcements from Ignite on agents and discuss how Copilot capabilities across Intune, Entra, Purview, and Defender deliver end-to-end protection. November 13 | Microsoft Entra AI: Unlocking Identity Intelligence with Security Copilot Skills and Agents Speakers: Mamta Kumar, Sr. Product Manager; Margaret Garcia Fani, Sr. Product Manager This session will demonstrate how Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra transforms identity security by introducing intelligent, autonomous capabilities that streamline operations and elevate protection. Customers will discover how to leverage AI-driven tools to optimize conditional access, automate access reviews, and proactively manage identity and application risks - empowering them into a more secure, and efficient digital future. October 30 | What's New in Copilot in Microsoft Intune Speaker: Amit Ghodke, Principal PM Architect, CxE CAT MEM Join us to learn about the latest Security Copilot capabilities in Microsoft Intune. We will discuss what's new and how you can supercharge your endpoint management experience with the new AI capabilities in Intune. October 16 | What’s New in Copilot in Microsoft Purview Speaker: Patrick David, Principal Product Manager, CxE CAT Compliance Join us for an insider’s look at the latest innovations in Microsoft Purview —where alert triage agents for DLP and IRM are transforming how we respond to sensitive data risks and improve investigation depth and speed. We’ll also dive into powerful new capabilities in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) with Security Copilot, designed to supercharge your security insights and automation. Whether you're driving compliance or defending data, this session will give you the edge. October 9 | When to Use Logic Apps vs. Security Copilot Agents Speaker: Shiv Patel, Sr. Product Manager, Security Copilot Explore how to scale automation in security operations by comparing the use cases and capabilities of Logic Apps and Security Copilot Agents. This webinar highlights when to leverage Logic Apps for orchestrated workflows and when Security Copilot Agents offer more adaptive, AI-driven responses to complex security scenarios. All sessions will be published to the Microsoft Security Community YouTube channel - Security Copilot Skilling Series Playlist __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for more? Keep up on the latest information on the Security Copilot Blog. Join the Microsoft Security Community mailing list to stay up to date on the latest product news and events. Engage with your peers one of our Microsoft Security discussion spaces.Announcing AI Entity Analyzer in Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server - Public Preview
What is the Entity Analyzer? Assessing the risk of entities is a core task for SOC teams - whether triaging incidents, investigating threats, or automating response workflows. Traditionally, this has required building complex playbooks or custom logic to gather and analyze fragmented security data from multiple sources. With Entity Analyzer, this complexity starts to fade away. The tool leverages your organization’s security data in Sentinel to deliver comprehensive, reasoned risk assessments for any entity you encounter - starting with users and urls. By providing this unified, out-of-the-box solution for entity analysis, Entity Analyzer also enables the AI agents you build to make smarter decisions and automate more tasks - without the need to manually engineer risk evaluation logic for each entity type. And for those building SOAR workflows, Entity Analyzer is natively integrated with Logic Apps, making it easy to enrich incidents and automate verdicts within your playbooks. *Entity Analyzer is rolling out in Public Preview to Sentinel MCP server and within Logic Apps starting today. Learn more here. **Leave feedback on the Entity Analyzer here. Deep Dive: How the User Analyzer is already solving problems for security teams Problem: Drowning in identity alerts Security operations centers (SOCs) are inundated with identity-based threats and alert noise. Triaging these alerts requires analyzing numerous data sources across sign-in logs, cloud app events, identity info, behavior analytics, threat intel, and more, all in tandem with each other to reach a verdict - something very challenging to do without a human in the loop today. So, we introduced the User Analyzer, a specialized analyzer that unifies, correlates, and analyzes user activity across all these security data sources. Government of Nunavut: solving identity alert overload with User Analyzer Hear the below from Arshad Sheikh, Security Expert at Government of Nunavut, on how they're using the User Analyzer today: How it's making a difference "Before the User Analyzer, when we received identity alerts we had to check a large amount of data related to users’ activity (user agents, anomalies, IP reputation, etc.). We had to write queries, wait for them to run, and then manually reason over the results. We attempted to automate some of this, but maintaining and updating that retrieval, parsing, and reasoning automation was difficult and we didn’t have the resources to support it. With the User Analyzer, we now have a plug-and-play solution that represents a step toward the AI-driven automation of the future. It gathers all the context such as what the anomalies are and presents it to our analysts so they can make quick, confident decisions, eliminating the time previously spent manually gathering this data from portals." Solving a real problem "For example, every 24 hours we create a low severity incident of our users who successfully sign-in to our network non interactively from outside of our GEO fence. This type of activity is not high-enough fidelity to auto-disable, requiring us to manually analyze the flagged users each time. But with User Analyzer, this analysis is performed automatically. The User Analyzer has also significantly reduced the time required to determine whether identity-based incidents like these are false positives or true positives. Instead of spending around 20 minutes investigating each incident, our analysts can now reach a conclusion in about 5 minutes using the automatically generated summary." Looking ahead "Looking ahead, we see even more potential. In the future, the User Analyzer could be integrated directly with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks to take automated, definitive action such as blocking user or device access based on the analyzer’s results. This would further streamline our incident response and move us closer to fully automated security operations." Want similar benefits in your SOC? Get started with our Entity Analyzer Logic Apps template here. User Analyzer architecture: how does it work? Let’s take a look at how the User Analyzer works. The User Analyzer aggregates and correlates signals from multiple data sources to deliver a comprehensive analysis, enabling informed actions based on user activity. The diagram below gives an overview of this architecture: Step 1: Retrieve Data The analyzer starts by retrieving relevant data from the following sources: Sign-In Logs (Interactive & Non-Interactive): Tracks authentication and login activity. Security Alerts: Alerts from Microsoft Defender solutions. Behavior Analytics: Surfaces behavioral anomalies through advanced analytics. Cloud App Events: Captures activity from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Identity Information: Enriches user context with identity records. Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Enriches IP addresses with Microsoft Threat Intelligence. Steps 2: Correlate signals Signals are correlated using identifiers such as user IDs, IP addresses, and threat intelligence. Rather than treating each alert or behavior in isolation, the User Analyzer fuses signals to build a holistic risk profile. Step 3: AI-based reasoning In the User Analyzer, multiple AI-powered agents collaborate to evaluate the evidence and reach consensus. This architecture not only improves accuracy and reduces bias in verdicts, but also provides transparent, justifiable decisions. Leveraging AI within the User Analyzer introduces a new dimension of intelligence to threat detection. Instead of relying on static signatures or rigid regex rules, AI-based reasoning can uncover subtle anomalies that traditional detection methods and automation playbooks often miss. For example, an attacker might try to evade detection by slightly altering a user-agent string or by targeting and exfiltrating only a few files of specific types. While these changes could bypass conventional pattern matching, an AI-powered analyzer understands the semantic context and behavioral patterns behind these artifacts, allowing it to flag suspicious deviations even when the syntax looks benign. Step 4: Verdict & analysis Each user is given a verdict. The analyzer outputs any of the following verdicts based on the analysis: Compromised Suspicious activity found No evidence of compromise Based on the verdict, a corresponding recommendation is given. This helps teams make an informed decision whether action should be taken against the user. *AI-generated content from the User Analyzer may be incorrect - check it for accuracy. User Analyzer Example Output See the following example output from the user analyzer within an incident comment: *IP addresses have been redacted for this blog* &CK techniques, a list of malicious IP addresses the user signed in from (redacted for this blog), and a few suspicious user agents the user's activity originated from. typically have to query and analyze these themselves, feel more comfortable trusting its classification. The analyzer also gives recommendations to remediate the account compromise, and a list of data sources it used during analysis. Conclusion Entity Analyzer in Microsoft Sentinel MCP server represents a leap forward in alert triage & analysis. By correlating signals and harnessing AI-based reasoning, it empowers SOC teams to act on investigations with greater speed, precision, and confidence. *Leave feedback on the Entity Analyzer hereSecure and govern AI apps and agents with Microsoft Purview
The Microsoft Purview family is here to help you secure and govern data across third party IaaS and Saas, multi-platform data environment, while helping you meet compliance requirements you may be subject to. Purview brings simplicity with a comprehensive set of solutions built on a platform of shared capabilities, that helps keep your most important asset, data, safe. With the introduction of AI technology, Purview also expanded its data coverage to include discovering, protecting, and governing the interactions of AI apps and agents, such as Microsoft Copilots like Microsoft 365 Copilot and Security Copilot, Enterprise built AI apps like Chat GPT enterprise, and other consumer AI apps like DeepSeek, accessed through the browser. To help you view, investigate interactions with all those AI apps, and to create and manage policies to secure and govern them in one centralized place, we have launched Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI. You can learn more about DSPM for AI here with short video walkthroughs: Learn how Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI provides data security and compliance protections for Copilots and other generative AI apps | Microsoft Learn Purview capabilities for AI apps and agents To understand our current set of capabilities within Purview to discover, protect, and govern various AI apps and agents, please refer to our Learn doc here: Microsoft Purview data security and compliance protections for Microsoft 365 Copilot and other generative AI apps | Microsoft Learn Here is a quick reference guide for the capabilities available today: Note that currently, DLP for Copilot and adhering to sensitivity label are currently designed to protect content in Microsoft 365. Thus, Security Copilot and Copilot in Fabric, along with Copilot studio custom agents that do not use Microsoft 365 as a content source, do not have these features available. Please see list of AI sites supported by Microsoft Purview DSPM for AI here Conclusion Microsoft Purview can help you discover, protect, and govern the prompts and responses from AI applications in Microsoft Copilot experiences, Enterprise AI apps, and other AI apps through its data security and data compliance solutions, while allowing you to view, investigate, and manage interactions in one centralized place in DSPM for AI. Follow up reading Check out the deployment guides for DSPM for AI How to deploy DSPM for AI - https://aka.ms/DSPMforAI/deploy How to use DSPM for AI data risk assessment to address oversharing - https://aka.ms/dspmforai/oversharing Address oversharing concerns with Microsoft 365 blueprint - aka.ms/Copilot/Oversharing Explore the Purview SDK Microsoft Purview SDK Public Preview | Microsoft Community Hub (blog) Microsoft Purview documentation - purview-sdk | Microsoft Learn Build secure and compliant AI applications with Microsoft Purview (video) References for DSPM for AI Microsoft Purview data security and compliance protections for Microsoft 365 Copilot and other generative AI apps | Microsoft Learn Considerations for deploying Microsoft Purview AI Hub and data security and compliance protections for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft Learn Block Users From Sharing Sensitive Information to Unmanaged AI Apps Via Edge on Managed Devices (preview) | Microsoft Learn as part of Scenario 7 of Create and deploy a data loss prevention policy | Microsoft Learn Commonly used properties in Copilot audit logs - Audit logs for Copilot and AI activities | Microsoft Learn Supported AI sites by Microsoft Purview for data security and compliance protections | Microsoft Learn Where Copilot usage data is stored and how you can audit it - Microsoft 365 Copilot data protection and auditing architecture | Microsoft Learn Downloadable whitepaper: Data Security for AI Adoption | Microsoft Explore the roadmap for DSPM for AI Public roadmap for DSPM for AI - Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365PMPur
Accelerated Collaboration Forums: Join the Conversation and Drive Innovation!
Are you passionate about Microsoft security, compliance, and collaboration? Do you want to connect directly with product engineering teams and peers to shape the future of Microsoft solutions? If so, Accelerated Collaboration Forums (ACFs) are designed for you! What Are Accelerated Collaboration Forums (ACFs)? Accelerated Collaboration Forums (ACFs) are topic-specific discussion groups within the Microsoft Customer Connection Program (MCCP). They streamline how community members engage with Microsoft product teams and each other by organizing recurring calls focused on key topics. Instead of juggling multiple calls, you simply join the recurring call series for the ACFs that interest you. Each forum meets at the same day and time, making participation predictable and easy. Engineering PMs from the relevant product groups join every call, fostering open dialogue and direct feedback. Membership in the Microsoft Customer Connection Program (MCCP) is required—if you’re not a member yet, you can join here. Why Join an ACF? Direct access to product engineering teams Focused discussions on hot topics Predictable, recurring schedule Open community for sharing feedback and ideas Opportunity to influence Microsoft’s roadmap Available Accelerated Collaboration Forums to join Choose from a range of topics tailored to your interests: Purview DLP Authentication Copilot in Entra Copilot in Purview Developer Experiences in Security MDO Partner and Customer Connection Posture Management Security for AI Teams Protection Zero Trust How to Join Ready to participate? Membership to a MCCP is required. If you are already part of the Microsoft Customer Connection Program (MCCP), you can join an ACF here. If you are not yet a MCCP member, you can join here and from there, follow the steps to join an ACF. Join an Accelerated Collaboration Forum today and help shape the future of Microsoft security and collaboration!
Microsoft Sentinel MCP server - Generally Available With Exciting New Capabilities
Today, we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Microsoft Sentinel MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, a fully managed cloud service built on an open standard that empowers AI agents to seamlessly access your entire security context through natural language, eliminating the need for complex data engineering as you build agents. This unlocks new levels of AI agent performance and effectiveness, enabling them to do more for you. Since the public preview launch on September 30, hundreds of customers have explored MCP tools that provide semantic access to their entire security context. These tools allow security AI agents to operate with unprecedented precision by understanding your unique security context in natural language. Today, we’re introducing multiple innovations and new capabilities designed to help even more customers unlock more with AI-driven security. This post offers a high-level overview of what’s new. Stay tuned for deep-dive blogs that will unpack each feature in detail. Connect to Sentinel MCP server from Multiple AI Platforms By adopting the MCP open standard, we can progress on our mission to empower effective AI agents wherever you choose to run them. Beyond Security Copilot and VSCode Github Copilot, Sentinel MCP server is now natively integrated with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry agent-building experiences. When creating an agent in any of these platforms, you can easily select Sentinel MCP tools, no pre-configuration required. It’s ready to use, so if you are using any of these platforms, dive in and give it a try. Click here for detailed guidance Additionally, you can now connect OpenAI ChatGPT to Sentinel MCP server through a secured OAuth authentication through a simple configuration in Entra. Learn how here assess threat impact on your organization Custom KQL Tools Many organizations rely on a curated library of KQL queries for incident triage, investigation, and threat hunting used in manual Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) or SOAR playbooks—often managed within Defender Advanced Hunting. Now, with Sentinel MCP server, you can instantly transform these saved KQL queries into custom tools with just a click. This new capability allows you to empower your AI agents with precise, actionable data tailored to your unique security workflows. Once a KQL query is saved as a tool, Sentinel MCP server automatically creates and maintains a corresponding MCP tool—ensuring it’s always in sync with the latest version of your saved query in Defender Advanced Hunting. Any connected agent can invoke this tool, confident it reflects your most current logic and requirements. Learn more here Entity Analyzer Assessing the risk of entities is a core task for SOC teams—whether triaging incidents, investigating threats, or automating response workflows. Traditionally, this has required building complex playbooks or custom logic to gather and analyze fragmented security data from multiple sources. With entity analyzer, this complexity is eliminated. The tool leverages your organization’s security data in Sentinel to deliver comprehensive, reasoned risk assessments for any entity your agents encounter – starting with users and urls. By providing a unified, out-of-the-box solution for entity analysis, entity analyzer enables your AI agents to make smarter decisions and automate more tasks—without the need to manually engineer risk evaluation logic for each entity type. This not only accelerates agent development, but also ensures your agents are always working with the most relevant and up-to-date context from across your security environment. Entity Analyzer is now available to any MCP client integrated with Sentinel MCP Server. And for those building SOAR workflows, entity analyzer is natively integrated with Logic Apps, making it easy to enrich entities and automate verdicts within your playbooks. Learn how to build a Logic Apps playbook with Entity Analyzer Graph Tools Microsoft Sentinel graph connects assets, identities, activities, and threat intelligence into a unified security graph, uncovering insights that structured data alone can’t provide such as relationships, blast radius, and attack paths. The graph is now generally available, and these advanced insights can be accessed by AI agents in natural language through a dedicated set of MCP tools. Graph MCP tools are offered in a sign-up preview. Triage Incidents and Alerts Sentinel MCP server extends to enable natural language access to a set of APIs that enable incident and alert triage. AI agents can use these tools to carry out autonomous triage and investigation of Defender XDR and Sentinel alerts and incidents. In the next couple of weeks, it will be available, out of the box, to all customers using Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Stay tuned. Smarter Security, Less Effort With the latest innovations in Sentinel MCP server, security teams can now harness the full power of AI-driven automation with unprecedented simplicity and impact. From seamless integration with leading AI platforms to instant creation of custom KQL tools and out-of-the-box entity analysis, Sentinel MCP server empowers your agents to deliver smarter, faster, and more effective security outcomes. These advancements eliminate manual complexity, accelerate agent development, and ensure your SOC is always equipped with the most relevant context. Currently, features like entity analysis are available at no additional charge; as we continue to evolve the platform, we’ll share updates on future pricing well in advance. Try out the new features today and stay tuned for deep-dive updates as we continue to push the boundaries of AI-powered security automation. Learn how to get startedUnlocking Developer Innovation with Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Introduction Microsoft Sentinel is evolving rapidly, transforming to be both an industry-leading SIEM and an AI-ready platform that empowers agentic defense across the security ecosystem. In our recent webinar: Introduction to Sentinel data lake for Developers, we explored how developers can leverage Sentinel’s unified data lake, extensible architecture, and integrated tools to build innovative security solutions. This post summarizes the key takeaways and actionable insights for developers looking to harness the full power of Sentinel. The Sentinel Platform: A Foundation for Agentic Security Unified Data and Context Sentinel centralizes security data cost-effectively, supporting massive volumes and diverse data types. This unified approach enables advanced analytics, graph-enabled context, and AI-ready data access—all essential for modern security operations. Developers can visualize relationships across assets, activities, and threats, mapping incidents and hunting scenarios with unprecedented clarity. Extensible and Open Platform Sentinel’s open architecture simplifies onboarding and data integration. Out-of-the-box connectors and codeless connector creation make it easy to bring in third-party data. Developers can quickly package and publish agents that leverage the centralized data lake and MCP server, distributing solutions through Microsoft Security Store for maximum reach. The Microsoft Security Store is a storefront for security professionals to discover, buy, and deploy vetted security SaaS solutions and AI agents from our ecosystem partners. These offerings integrate natively with Microsoft Security products—including the Sentinel platform, Defender, and Entra, to deliver end‑to‑end protection. By combining curated, deploy‑ready solutions with intelligent, AI‑assisted workflows, the Store reduces integration friction and speeds time‑to‑value for critical tasks like triage, threat hunting, and access management. Advanced Analytics and AI Integration With support for KQL, Spark, and ML tools, Sentinel separates storage and compute, enabling scalable analytics and semantic search. Jupyter Notebooks hosted in on-demand Spark environments allow for rich data engineering and machine learning directly on the data lake. Security Copilot agents, seamlessly integrated with Sentinel, deliver autonomous and adaptive automation, enhancing both security and IT operations. Developer Scenarios: Unlocking New Possibilities The webinar showcased several developer scenarios enabled by Sentinel’s platform components: Threat Investigations Over Extended Timelines: Query historical data to uncover slow-moving attacks and persistent threats. Behavioral Baselining: Model normal behavior using months of sign-in logs to detect anomalies. Alert Enrichment: Correlate alerts with firewall and NetFlow data to improve accuracy and reduce false positives. Retrospective Threat Hunting: React to new indicators of compromise by running historical queries across the data lake. ML-Powered Insights: Build machine learning models for anomaly detection, alert enrichment, and predictive analytics. These scenarios demonstrate how developers can leverage Sentinel’s data lake, graph capabilities, and integrated analytics to deliver powerful security solutions. End-to-End Developer Journey The following steps outline a potential workflow for developers to ingest and analyze their data within the Sentinel platform. Data Sources: Identify high-value data sources from your environment to integrate with Microsoft Security data. The journey begins with your unique view of the customer’s digital estate. This is data you have in your platform today. Bringing this data into Sentinel helps customers make sense of their entire security landscape at once. Data Ingestion: Import third-party data into the Sentinel data lake for secure, scalable analytics. As customer data flows from various platforms into Sentinel, it is centralized and normalized, providing a unified foundation for advanced analysis and threat detection across the customer’s digital environment. Sentinel data lake and Graph: Run Jupyter Notebook jobs for deep insights, combining contributed and first-party data. Once data resides in the Sentinel data lake, developers can leverage its graph capabilities to model relationships and uncover patterns, empowering customers with comprehensive insights into security events and trends. Agent Creation: Build Security Copilot agents that interact with Sentinel data using natural language prompts. These agents make the customer’s ingested data actionable, allowing users to ask questions or automate tasks, and helping teams quickly respond to threats or investigate incidents using their own enterprise data. Solution Packaging: Package and distribute solutions via the Microsoft Security Store, reaching customers at scale. By packaging these solutions, developers enable customers to seamlessly deploy advanced analytics and automation tools that harness their data journey— from ingestion to actionable insights—across their entire security estate. Conclusion Microsoft Sentinel’s data lake and platform capabilities open new horizons for developers. By centralizing data, enabling advanced analytics, and providing extensible tools, Sentinel empowers you to build solutions that address today’s security challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s threats. Explore the resources below, join the community, and start innovating with Sentinel today! App Assure: For assistance with developing a Sentinel Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) connector, you can contact AzureSentinelPartner@microsoft.com. Microsoft Security Community: aka.ms/communitychoice Next Steps: Resources and Links Ready to dive deeper? Explore these resources to get started: Get Educated! Sentinel data lake general availability announcement Sentinel data lake official documentation Connect Sentinel to Defender Portal Onboarding to Sentinel data lake Integration scenarios (e.g. hunt | jupyter) KQL queries Jupyter notebooks (link) as jobs (link) VS Code Extension Sentinel graph Sentinel MCP server Security Copilot agents Microsoft Security Store Take Action! Bring your data into Sentinel Build a composite solution Explore Security Copilot agents Publish to Microsoft Security Store List existing SaaS apps in Security Store
