Sophos Intelix Boosts Microsoft Security & Copilot
▼ Summary
– Sophos Intelix now integrates with Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot, providing real-time threat intelligence within Microsoft’s AI environments.
– The integration enables security teams to enrich alerts, investigate IOCs, and access global threat insights directly in Microsoft Security Copilot using natural language.
– Microsoft 365 Copilot users can query Sophos threat intelligence in Teams and Copilot Chat to check links, files, or domains for malicious activity.
– Sophos Intelix will also integrate with Microsoft’s agent ecosystem, extending intelligence across Microsoft 365 with full observability and compliance.
– These integrations aim to democratize advanced cybersecurity insights, helping organizations accelerate threat analysis and improve security outcomes through AI collaboration.
A significant advancement in enterprise cybersecurity has arrived with the general availability of new integrations linking Sophos Intelix, the company’s extensive cyber threat intelligence repository, with Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot. This development provides organizations of every size with immediate, real-time access to Sophos’ threat intelligence directly within Microsoft’s AI-driven environments, enabling them to fortify their security posture and accelerate their response to emerging threats.
The intelligence powering Sophos Intelix is drawn from a massive global data stream. Every single day, the Sophos Central platform analyzes more than 223 terabytes of telemetry, leading to the generation of over 34 million detections and the automatic blocking of more than 11 million threats. This immense volume of customer data continuously refines Sophos products and services, and it is this very intelligence that is now being offered at no cost to users of Microsoft’s Copilot platforms.
For security professionals using Microsoft Security Copilot, the integration is a game-changer. Sophos Intelix delivers advanced threat context and enrichment capabilities directly into this generative AI assistant, which is designed for Security Operations Center (SOC) and IT teams. Security Copilot unifies data from Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Intune, Entra, and Purview. Analysts can now use natural language to query and investigate potential threats, with their investigations enriched by insights derived from Sophos’ protection of more than 600,000 organizations worldwide. These teams, who are often on duty around the clock, require the most current intelligence instantly available to safeguard their organizations effectively.
This powerful integration enables security analysts and IT personnel to enrich alerts and triage incidents more rapidly by leveraging Sophos Intelix services, which include sandbox detonation and dynamic analysis.
The integration also extends to Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing comprehensive threat intelligence to a much broader audience through everyday productivity tools like Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This empowers a wider range of users within an organization to participate in security.
With Sophos Intelligence embedded in Microsoft 365, IT administrators, risk managers, and even general business users can now query Sophos threat intelligence using simple, natural language directly within Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Microsoft Teams.
By embedding these capabilities directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot, Sophos enables organizations to make faster, better-informed security decisions without disrupting their established workflows. This move strongly supports Sophos’ vision of democratizing access to advanced cybersecurity insights, effectively giving Microsoft 365 Copilot users access to the same caliber of intelligence that sophisticated SOC teams rely on.
Future Vision: Expanding the Ecosystem
Looking ahead, Sophos Intelix is also set to integrate with Microsoft’s expanding Copilot and agent ecosystem. This will extend Sophos intelligence across the entire Microsoft 365 environment. Powered by Entra-based identity management, this future integration will allow organizations to incorporate Sophos Intelix into their agent portfolio with complete observability and compliance.
Microsoft Agent 365 acts as the control plane for AI agents, enabling businesses to extend their current infrastructure, applications, and security protections to these agents using familiar, adapted capabilities.
By making Sophos Intelix available throughout the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, Sophos is ensuring that critical threat intelligence is universally accessible. This initiative helps organizations speed up their analysis, cut down response times, and ultimately achieve better security outcomes.
Executive Perspectives
“The Microsoft Copilot ecosystem is fundamentally changing how people interact with technology by embedding natural language interfaces at its core,” stated Simon Reed, Chief Scientific Research Officer at Sophos. “The future of SOC productivity is shifting away from the graphical user interfaces we have depended on since the 1980s and moving toward a new paradigm of human-AI collaboration. AI assistants, powered by vast datasets, deep threat intelligence, and advanced systems, are radically transforming how analysts perform their duties. By providing Sophos threat intelligence through both Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot, we are equipping defenders with faster, more intuitive access to the insights they need to respond to threats with greater speed, precision, and confidence.”
“AI acts as a powerful force multiplier for defenders, and when partners like Sophos bring their innovative agent capabilities into the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, the resulting impact is exponential,” added Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security. “Together, we are not merely building tools, we are ushering in a new era of intelligent, collaborative cyber defense.”
(Source: NewsAPI Cybersecurity & Enterprise)
