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Microsoft Sentinel, a scalable, cloud-native SIEM and SOAR solution providing intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.
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ntegrated Security Operations Center (ISOC), now in preview, combines the breadth of SIEM capabilities with the depth of native threat protection, alongside threat intelligence, automation and AI. ISOC gives security teams and agents a shared foundation to see the environment, understand the threat and act with the relevant context and controls.
Sep 23, 2026
The next question after a security finding should be: what can this reach? A finding becomes more useful when you can see the identities, devices and cloud resources connected to it. Those relationships help you decide where to investigate next and which exposure deserves attention first. That is where Hunting graph fits.
Sep 21, 2026
Project Perception's practical value is coordination. Specialized security agents work toward a shared objective, giving customers a clearer path from understanding a threat to deciding what to investigate, detect and fix. Inside Microsoft Defender, six specialized agents work across Red, Blue and Green teams. Their value comes from how their findings help your team decide what to investigate, detect and fix.
Sep 14, 2026
Identity provides traceability. Governance provides answers. An agent can have a valid security principal and still lack a complete governance record.
Aug 06, 2026
An agent incident can involve nine teams and still leave one critical question unanswered: "Who is allowed to decide what happens next?" The problem is not always missing technology. It is often that actors, products, evidence, actions, and decisions are drawn as if they mean the same thing.
Aug 04, 2026
Security data becomes more valuable when we model the relationships that tables leave scattered❗ Microsoft Sentinel Custom Graph [Preview] makes that possible.
Jul 30, 2026
"Does the agent work?" - Most agent governance problems begin with this wrong production question! While a successful demo answers that question, a production approval has to answer a different one: "Can this agent operate with bounded authority, observable behavior, and a clear human decision owner?"
Jul 21, 2026
NEW: Microsoft Sentinel CCF Push connectors (Preview) - real-time security events ingestion with codeless SOC experience
Feb 23, 2026
UEBA in Microsoft Sentinel all in one picture. UEBA turns entities + telemetry into prioritized investigation context - so you spend less time stitching signals and more time acting with confidence.
Feb 09, 2026
New enhancements to Microsoft Sentinel UEBA (in preview) including near real-time behavioral insights, ability to enable from data connector experience and new data sources.
Feb 04, 2026
