Securing Copilot Studio Agents with Real-Time Protection

As organizations rapidly adopt AI agents to automate tasks, securing these conversational assistants from data leaks and malicious inputs is critical. This text-based course guides you through the foundational steps of protecting your AI ecosystem against modern vulnerabilities. You will gain the skills to monitor and safeguard your conversational agents, ensuring they operate within secure boundaries. Through detailed written explanations and clear configuration scenarios, you will learn how to integrate robust security controls without disrupting user workflows. What you'll learn: - Understand core security risks for AI agents, including data exfiltration and prompt injection. - Discover active Copilot Studio agents running within your organizational environment. - Configure real-time runtime protection using Defender for Cloud Apps. - Align your AI deployment with zero-trust security principles and threat mitigation. - Verify security alerts and stream protection outputs into Defender XDR for centralized monitoring. - Apply modern governance policies to prevent unauthorized data sharing. We begin with essential terminology and the fundamentals of AI threat modeling before walking through step-by-step security configurations and monitoring workflows. This course is designed for IT administrators, security analysts, and cloud professionals who are new to AI security and want to establish a secure foundation. Start reading today to protect your conversational AI environment.