Microsoft Safety Copilot, an AI cybersecurity product for risk detection and response, is now usually accessible for IT professionals inside the Floor Administration Portal (SMP). For these unaware, SMP is a devoted workspace inside the Intune admin heart for Floor gadget information and insights. The combination brings generative AI to Floor gadget administration workflows.

This improvement is an growth of Microsoft’s Safety Copilot’s GA for Entra which was introduced on the identical time. Microsoft introduced 4 key pillars the place Safety Copilot may also help in Entra: id insights and investigation, entry governance and assessment, app and useful resource safety, and monitoring and posture administration.

With Safety Copilot, SMP is enhanced with a conversational AI layer which provides admins simpler entry and motion on information. For instance, you would ask issues like “Which units are out of compliance and out of guarantee?, “Present units with TPM disabled and BitLocker off”, or “Estimate carbon emissions from our Floor fleet”.

This new characteristic affords admins tangible advantages like sooner decision, much less handbook effort, tailor-made insights, and a stronger safety posture. Admins which have tried this in public preview since February reported sharpened choice making.

Discussing the built-in nature of Safety Copilot and SMP, Microsoft’s Rohan Brooker mentioned:

“Safety Copilot within the Floor Administration Portal brings the built-in worth of Microsoft Floor {hardware}, Home windows firmware, Intune, and Safety engineers working as one crew. Collectively, they allow alerts to maneuver seamlessly from Floor units into Intune and Copilot’s language mannequin—giving admins richer, real-time context with the instruments they already use.”

To make use of this characteristic, you’ll want so as to add Safety Compute Models (SCUs) and allow the SMP plugin in Safety Copilot. Whereas this may occasionally already be out of beta, Microsoft nonetheless needs to listen to what you assume, you need to use the suggestions button within the portal to counsel enhancements.