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How Microsoft's new security agents help businesses stay a step ahead of AI-enabled hackers

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Microsoft announced new or improved AI security agents at Ignite.

Security agent functionality is surfaced within Microsoft's relevant management portal.

The agents are free to all Copilot Security customers with 365 E5 subscriptions.

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.

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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.

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