Get ready for security agents: Microsoft Security Copilot will be included in Microsoft 365 E5

Microsoft Security Copilot is now included at no extra cost in Microsoft 365 E5, providing integrated AI-driven security agents across Defender, Entra, Intune, and Purview. Customers receive monthly Security Compute Units based on user count, with phased rollout and admin controls via Entra ID group membership. Microsoft Security Copilot agents are directly built into the flow of work for security teams in Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Purview. Today, we are introducing a dozen new agents across these products, to bring agentic defense across workflows, enabling adaptive protection. To make the agents easily accessible and help security teams get started more quickly, we are excited to announce that Security Copilot will be included in your Microsoft 365 E5 plan as part of your core entitlement with no additional cost*. No provisioning or licensing changes are required. Rollout starts today with existing Security Copilot customers with Microsoft 365 E5 and will continue for all Microsoft 365 E5 customers in the upcoming months.  When this will happen Microsoft 365 E5 customers who already have Security Copilot can get started today with this entitlement. All other Microsoft 365 E5 customers can get access to Security Copilot as part of a phased rollout in the upcoming months, with notifications sent 30 days prior to activation. How this affects your organization Your organization will have access to Security Copilot with: 400 security compute units (SCUs)/month for every 1,000 paid users in Microsoft 365 E5 (up to 10,000 SCUs/month across all workspaces). SCU allocation scales based on the number of users in Microsoft 365 E5. Core agentic experiences across Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, and the Security Copilot portal Developer tools and APIs for custom agents and integrations What you can do to prepare: Microsoft 365 E5 customers who already have Security Copilot can get started today with: Security operations in Microsoft Defender: https://security.microsoft.com  Data security in Microsoft Purview: https://purview.microsoft.com  Identity and access in Microsoft Entra: https://entra.microsoft.com  Endpoint management in Microsoft Intune: https://intune.microsoft.com  Review the documentation for details of what’s included with Security Copilot in Microsoft 365 E5 All other […]

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