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Microsoft Copilot for Security

Copilot for Security, put in the hands of a SOC that already lives in KQL.

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Copilot for Security
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  • 20+Copilot Security tenants
  • KQLCo-authoring
  • 40-60%Triage time saved
  • 24/7SOC integration
Microsoft Copilot for Security
What Copilot for Security delivers

Six places the AI layer earns its keep.

The product speeds up people who are already good at the job. It writes up incidents, turns plain English into working queries, pulls threat intelligence together, and proposes what to do next. We deliver it with a tested prompt library and wire it into the workflow your analysts already follow.

Writing up incidents

An incident spanning Defender, Sentinel and Entra comes back as readable narrative rather than three consoles worth of evidence. On a major incident that is half an hour to an hour returned to the analyst, taken off documentation, briefings and the emails leadership asks for.

Getting to a working query

Describe what you want to see, in English, and get KQL back that runs. Ask for failed sign-ins from addresses never seen before over the past day and the query arrives ready. It shortens the learning curve for newer analysts and saves keystrokes for the ones who could have written it anyway.

Threat-intel synthesis

Research on the actor, analysis of the indicators, and a read on which malware family you are looking at. It draws on Microsoft Threat Intelligence and on what your own tenant has recorded, in the same answer.

Response recommendations

Each incident arrives with proposed next steps and the reasoning behind them. Tier 1 moves faster, a senior analyst still signs off, and the log records both what was recommended and what was actually carried out.

Investigation workflows

Prompts and flows built around your sector and the threats that actually target it, on top of a library we have already validated against the investigation patterns every SOC repeats.

Audit and governance

Purview captures every exchange. Prompts and responses touching sensitive material fall under your data protection policies like anything else, which leaves you with an evidence chain an auditor will accept.

Why GR IT for Copilot Security

Why organizations hand us this particular deployment.

This is a young product. Getting real value out of it takes people who know Defender XDR and Sentinel properly, and who treat prompt engineering as an engineering discipline rather than a knack.

50+ Sentinel tenants

Copilot rests on Defender XDR and Sentinel, so the foundation has to be sound before the AI layer is worth anything. We have written KQL detection libraries for banks, hospital groups and retailers, and that pattern recognition carries across.

Prompt engineering discipline

The prompt libraries we ship have been tested against real workflows before they reach you, extended for the threats your sector sees, and kept under version control like any other code.

SOC workflow integration

Copilot goes inside the workflow your SOC already runs rather than sitting alongside it. Access to prompts differs by tier, from Tier 1 through to the incident response engineers, and every handover point between them is written down.

24/7 SOC operations

The deployment and the ongoing operation are handled remotely by senior analysts for organizations across the United States. The engineers who build your prompt library are the same ones writing your KQL detections.

Industries using Copilot for Security

Sectors where this is already running.

Where we see the acceleration land hardest, across six industries.

Financial services

Firms answering to the SEC and to NYDFS Part 500 use it to compress the incident response work regulators require, and to turn audit trails into evidence summaries an examiner can read.

Tech and SaaS

Software companies use it to write up incidents inside their own applications and to get hunting queries running against application logs faster than a human could compose them.

Healthcare

Hospitals and physician groups use it for incident write-ups that stay conscious of protected health information, and to shorten the containment window when ransomware appears.

Professional services

Law firms run incident analysis through it without breaching matter confidentiality, and use it when investigating anything that touches client data.

Critical infrastructure

Utilities and large operators use it across the OT and IT boundary, and to produce response evidence that lines up with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

Managed-security clients

Organizations already on our managed SOC get the benefit without running the project: quicker response, fuller documentation, and a stronger audit trail behind both.

Copilot for Security vs SOC without AI

What changes once the AI layer is on.

The product makes analysts faster. It does not stand in for them. Set side by side, this is what actually changes:
Incident-summary writing time
Working SOC, no AI30-60 min
Copilot-augmented SOC5-10 min
KQL query authoring (junior analyst)
Working SOC, no AISlow, error-prone
Copilot-augmented SOCFaster, validated
Threat-intel synthesis
Working SOC, no AIManual research
Copilot-augmented SOCAccelerated
Tier-1 triage throughput
Working SOC, no AIBaseline
Copilot-augmented SOC40-60% higher
Senior analyst time on documentation
Working SOC, no AIHigh
Copilot-augmented SOCLow
Audit-trail completeness
Working SOC, no AIVariable
Copilot-augmented SOCConsistent
Per-analyst cost (mid-size SOC)
Working SOC, no AIBaseline
Copilot-augmented SOCHigher, returned on triage volume
Feature
Working SOC, no AI
Manual workflows
Copilot-augmented SOC
AI-accelerated
Incident-summary writing time
30-60 min5-10 min
KQL query authoring (junior analyst)
Slow, error-proneFaster, validated
Threat-intel synthesis
Manual researchAccelerated
Tier-1 triage throughput
Baseline40-60% higher
Senior analyst time on documentation
HighLow
Audit-trail completeness
VariableConsistent
Per-analyst cost (mid-size SOC)
BaselineHigher, returned on triage volume
How a deployment runs

From SOC workflow assessment to managed Copilot operations.

Four stages, the same four every time, each one documented and evidenced against a timeline agreed before we start.
  1. 1

    Workflow assessment

    1-2 weeks

    We audit how your SOC actually works, check the state of Defender XDR and Sentinel underneath it, and take an honest read on analyst skill levels. You get a deployment plan and an agreed scope for the prompt library.

  2. 2

    Deployment

    3-5 weeks

    Copilot goes live, the integrations into Defender XDR and Sentinel are proven rather than assumed, the prompt libraries land, and the analysts are trained on them.

  3. 3

    Validation

    1-2 weeks

    We replay past incidents through the prompts, measure how accurate the output is, and set the baseline metrics adoption will be judged against.

  4. 4

    Operate

    Continuous

    A prompt engineering review each quarter, library updates as the estate changes, adoption tracked per analyst, and a monthly report on what the tooling is actually returning.

Common questions

Microsoft Copilot for Security, frequently asked.

If you want the full value, yes. Everything Copilot says is grounded in what it can see: alerts, incidents and hunting data from Defender XDR, logs and workbooks from Sentinel, identity from Entra ID, device state from Intune, audit records from Purview. Strip those away and there is very little left for it to reason over.

It is consumption based, measured in Security Compute Units. You reserve SCUs by the hour and scale them against what the workload is doing. Most SOCs we work with settle somewhere between two and four SCUs for normal daily operations. We will size yours during the workflow assessment and put the figure in your quote.

For KQL queries and Sentinel analytic rules, yes. The analyst describes what the detection needs to catch and Copilot produces the KQL. A senior analyst then reviews and tightens it before anything is deployed. Detection development gets faster. The judgment about whether a detection is right stays with your people.

Three things, mainly. Prompt libraries get reviewed for accuracy before they ship. Every prompt and every response is logged. Anything touching sensitive material falls under your Purview policies. Above all, the decision on how to respond belongs to a senior analyst. Copilot proposes and a person disposes.

The grounding architecture Microsoft built keeps the prompt separated from the data it draws on. On top of that we harden the prompt library itself and train analysts to recognize adversarial input when they see it. None of the deployments we run has had a prompt injection incident to date.

It is frequently where the biggest return sits. With a validated prompt in front of them, junior analysts close Tier 1 work that used to need a senior looking over their shoulder. The seniors then spend their day on investigations that need real context, on mentoring, and on improving the library itself.

With Sentinel and Defender XDR the integration is native. If your SOC runs on Splunk, be aware that a good deal of the value falls away, and a Splunk-specific assistant from another vendor may serve you better. We give you a straight answer on that during the workflow audit rather than after the purchase order.

We do, regularly. The work usually comes down to assessing whether the existing prompt library is any good, proving the integrations do what they claim, and putting adoption tracking in place where there was none. Two to three weeks covers most of them.
Further reading

Resources for SOC leads.

Microsoft Sentinel

The SIEM and SOAR layer underneath everything Copilot does. Detection engineering in KQL, automated response, and SOC operations run as a service.

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Microsoft Defender

The alerts and incidents Copilot writes up all originate here. Endpoint detection and response, identity, email and cloud application coverage in one product family.

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Cybersecurity audit

An independent read on where your SOC stands. We review detection coverage, validate the prompt library, and hand back a written remediation program.

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