Microsoft Security Copilot is now Generally Available in Defender for Cloud

General Availability for Defender for AI Services
May 1, 2025

Defender for Cloud now supports runtime protection for Azure AI services (previously called threat protection for AI workloads).

Protection for Azure AI services covers threats specific to AI services and applications, such as jailbreak, wallet abuse, data exposure, suspicious access patterns, and more. The detections use signals from Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Azure AI Prompt Shields, and apply machine learning and AI to secure your AI services.

Microsoft Security Copilot is now Generally Available in Defender for Cloud
May 1, 2025

Microsoft Security Copilot is now generally available in Defender for Cloud.

Security Copilot speeds up risk remediation for security teams, making it faster and easier for administrators to address cloud risks. It provides AI-generated summaries, remediation actions, and delegation emails, guiding users through each step of the risk reduction process.

Security administrators can quickly summarize recommendations, generate remediation scripts, and delegate tasks via email to resource owners. These capabilities reduce investigation time, help security teams understand risks in context, and identify resources for quick remediation.

General Availability Data and AI security dashboard
May 1, 2025

Defender for Cloud is enhancing the Data security dashboard to include AI Security with the new Data and AI security dashboard in GA. The dashboard provides a centralized platform to monitor and manage data and AI resources, along with their associated risks and protection status.

Key benefits of the Data and AI security dashboard include:

• Unified view: Gain a comprehensive view of all organizational data and AI resources.
• Data insights: Understand where your data is stored and the types of resources holding it.
• Protection coverage: Assess the protection coverage of your data and AI resources.
• Critical issues: Highlight resources that require immediate attention based on high-severity recommendations, alerts, and attack paths.
• Sensitive data discovery: Locate and summarize sensitive data resources in your cloud and AI assets.
• AI workloads: Discover AI application footprints, including services, containers, data sets, and models.

Defender CSPM starts billing for Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server resources
May 1, 2025

Estimated date for change: June 2025

Beginning June 1, 2025, Microsoft Defender CSPM will start billing for Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server resources in your subscription where Defender CSPM is enabled. These resources are already protected by Defender CSPM and no user action is required. After billing starts, your bill might increase.