"Earlier this week at Microsoft's Ignite conference in San Francisco, the overwhelming onslaught of artificial intelligence-related announcements made it easy to miss some of the company's more significant "all-AI all-the-time" news. Also: Microsoft's new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now The word "Copilot" -- representative of Microsoft's flagship AI brand -- made thousands of appearances across virtually every functional area of the technology firm's offerings, a testimony to an AI-first strategy that also blanketed its portfolio of security-related solutions."
"Cybersecurity has always resembled a cat-and-mouse game. Just when the IT department manages to close off one form of intrusion, the adversaries evolve to find another, and the vicious cycle continues. Such has been the case with an ever-evolving series of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by the threat actors who've been exfiltrating billions of customer records from the Salesforce instances belonging to some of the world's biggest and most well-known brands."
"Naturally, it's only a matter of time before hackers start to harness the scalability and speed of AI to more successfully pursue their exploits. For example, Anthropic -- developer of the popular Claude LLM -- published a report earlier this month that revealed the following: "In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI's 'agentic' capabilities to an unprecedented degree -- using AI not just as an advisor, but"
Microsoft announced new or improved AI security agents at Ignite that are surfaced within the relevant management portal and offered at no extra cost to Copilot Security customers with Microsoft 365 E5 subscriptions. The Copilot brand now spans many product areas including security, reflecting an AI-first strategy. Security remains a cat-and-mouse game as defenders block one intrusion vector and attackers evolve new tactics, techniques, and procedures, including large-scale data exfiltration from enterprise Salesforce instances. Observers warn that threat actors will increasingly use AI's agentic capabilities to automate and scale espionage campaigns, raising urgency for enhanced AI-driven defenses.
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