What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026
Brief
As organizations incorporate AI agents into more processes across business and operations, security teams can benefit from greater visibility and new purpose-built tools that help manage, secure, and govern AI.
This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments.
Here’s what’s new:
Extend expert-led protection with new capabilities from Microsoft Defender Experts
Microsoft Defender Experts Threat Intelligence delivers expert-led threat intelligence and actionable insights tailored to your geography, industry, and risk profile to help security teams anticipate cyberthreats, assess risk, and take informed action. Microsoft Defender Experts MDR now covers third-party data sources ingested through Microsoft Sentinel .
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What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026
As organizations incorporate AI agents into more processes across business and operations, security teams can benefit from greater visibility and new purpose-built tools that help manage, secure, and govern AI.
This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments.
Here’s what’s new:
Extend expert-led protection with new capabilities from Microsoft Defender Experts
Microsoft Defender Experts Threat Intelligence delivers expert-led threat intelligence and actionable insights tailored to your geography, industry, and risk profile to help security teams anticipate cyberthreats, assess risk, and take informed action. Microsoft Defender Experts MDR now covers third-party data sources ingested through Microsoft Sentinel .
This extends around-the-clock managed detection and response and threat hunting to deliver protection across both Microsoft native and third-party data sources , including Palo Alto Networks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Okta, and more. This coverage is available through Microsoft Defender Experts MDR P2.
Get started with Microsoft Defender Experts MDR
Strengthen identity foundations for the AI era with Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance brings an organization’s tenants into a single view to help address security gaps and blind spots. Centralized policies and cross-tenant delegated administration of multi-tenant environments help reduce shadow-tenant risk, configure policies, monitor configuration drift, and strengthen identity foundations for AI-powered operations.
The configuration drifts report, showing drift details including types, properties and timestamps, enabling continuous tenant configuration monitoring for a consistent security and compliance posture.
What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026
As organizations incorporate AI agents into more processes across business and operations, security teams can benefit from greater visibility and new purpose-built tools that help manage, secure, and govern AI.
This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments.
Here’s what’s new:
Extend expert-led protection with new capabilities from Microsoft Defender Experts
Microsoft Defender Experts Threat Intelligence delivers expert-led threat intelligence and actionable insights tailored to your geography, industry, and risk profile to help security teams anticipate cyberthreats, assess risk, and take informed action. Microsoft Defender Experts MDR now covers third-party data sources ingested through Microsoft Sentinel .
This extends around-the-clock managed detection and response and threat hunting to deliver protection across both Microsoft native and third-party data sources , including Palo Alto Networks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Okta, and more. This coverage is available through Microsoft Defender Experts MDR P2.
Get started with Microsoft Defender Experts MDR
Strengthen identity foundations for the AI era with Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance brings an organization’s tenants into a single view to help address security gaps and blind spots. Centralized policies and cross-tenant delegated administration of multi-tenant environments help reduce shadow-tenant risk, configure policies, monitor configuration drift, and strengthen identity foundations for AI-powered operations.