Yes, April 1 marked the release of Copilot for Security, which is not to be confused with securing Copilot usage within M365.
Copilot for Security is a tool (licensed separately) that lets you use AI to assist with your security policies, such as recommending or reviewing Intune policies.
Securing the use of Copilot in your environment is something different: a set of recommendations for ensuring your users aren’t doing anything dangerous. In that regard, we have some links this month.
Discover, protect, and govern AI usage with Microsoft Security.
A day with Copilot for Security. (This is the new Copilot product for security.)
Copilot for Security – The low down for SMB - and the follow-up - Configuring a budget for Copilot for Security
In other Copilot news:
This could be interesting - Exploring Microsoft Whiteboard's Copilot Function
Copilot for Microsoft 365 adds GPT-4 Turbo model; ditches cap limits on turns and chats.
Microsoft is offering training for Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Academy now generally available.
We didn't need more proof that Microsoft is tying its future to Copilot, but this would be a pretty good indication. - Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-center project, media report says.
Yes, that’s 100 billion with a “B.”
In non-Copilot news:
I wrote about the Updates app in Teams a few months back. This is an exciting addition - Things to know about tracking your work with the Microsoft Teams Updates Power Automate connector.
This is also going to be a net positive for collaboration with Loop, but something your security team may want to take a look at as well - Loop App External Sharing Restriction Lifted.
The new planner functionality looks very promising. However, I have a few questions from the eDiscovery side about these various integrations, especially any syncing with To-Do lists and Outlook Tasks. I will look at it again once it’s fully released and available. - Microsoft has launched a public preview of its new Planner app in Teams.
More on that:
Here are a few things I’m bookmarking for reference:
Important Settings to Block for External User Access Security.
Top 15 MS Graph PowerShell Scripts for Microsoft 365 IT Pros.
That’s it for this month’s M365 news roundup. What upcoming M365 features excite you or frighten you?