Maximising Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 value with Microsoft Security Copilot
5 minute read
Sam Vokes
June 17th, 2026
Security teams are under increasing pressure to respond to threats faster, manage growing operational complexity, and maximise the value of existing security investments. At the same time, organisations are exploring how AI can revolutionise processes.
Microsoft’s expansion of Microsoft Security Copilot across Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 licensing represents an important shift in how organisations can adopt AI-assisted security operations without introducing additional standalone tooling or significant deployment complexity.
As AI capabilities become increasingly embedded across Microsoft security services, organisations now have an opportunity to improve operational visibility, accelerate investigations, and enhance security outcomes whilst increasing the value realised from existing Microsoft investments.
What is Microsoft Security Copilot?
Microsoft Security Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-driven security capability designed to help organisations improve how security teams investigate, respond to, and manage security operations.
By combining AI-assisted analysis and agents with Microsoft’s wider security ecosystem, Security Copilot can help organisations improve operational efficiency, accelerate investigations, reduce repetitive manual effort, and increase visibility across security operations.
Security Copilot integrates across Microsoft security services including Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Purview, Defender for Cloud Apps, and Azure Firewall.
What Microsoft’s recent announcement means
- Microsoft Security Copilot is being included for all Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 customers
- Organisations can begin exploring AI-assisted security operations without additional standalone licensing costs
- Security Copilot capabilities will become more accessible across Microsoft’s security ecosystem, helping organisations realise greater value from existing investments
- Microsoft is continuing to position AI-assisted security operations as a core capability within the Microsoft security platform
What are the benefits of Microsoft Security Copilot for security and AI teams?
Greater value from existing investments
Organisations already invested in Microsoft 365 E5/ E7 and Microsoft security technologies can realise additional value from existing tooling without introducing separate security platforms
Faster incident investigation and response
Security teams can reduce the time spent analysing alerts and investigating incidents through AI-assisted summarisation, investigation support, and operational insights
Improved operational efficiency
Security Copilot can help reduce repetitive and time-consuming security tasks, enabling analysts and IT teams to focus more time on higher-value operational activities
Improved visibility across security operations
By integrating across identity, endpoint, data, and cloud security services, Security Copilot can help organisations improve visibility and operational awareness across their Microsoft security and third-party ecosystem
Supporting security operations at scale
AI-assisted workflows can help organisations improve consistency and scalability across security operations regardless of team size or operational maturity
Preparing for ai-driven security operations
As AI capabilities become increasingly embedded across Microsoft security tooling, organisations have an opportunity to establish governance, operational readiness, and practical use cases for long-term AI adoption
How Phoenix can help your organisation adopt Security Copilot
Phoenix helps organisations evaluate where Microsoft Security Copilot can deliver operational value, understand the governance and readiness considerations for secure adoption, and identify practical use cases aligned to existing Microsoft security investments.
Phoenix is one of the most recognised and accredited world-leading Microsoft partners with a focus on transforming organisations across the UK. Our Microsoft awards and accreditations enable us to continue to serve our customers and provide the technical implementation and support they need, as well as the adoption and change management skills they require to maximise their investments.
Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Security Copilot
Yes. Microsoft Security Copilot is being included for Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 customers, enabling eligible organisations to access AI-assisted security capabilities without purchasing separate standalone Security Copilot licensing. This can help organisations gain more value from their existing Microsoft security investments.
Microsoft Security Copilot integrates across Microsoft’s wider security ecosystem, including Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Purview, Defender for Cloud Apps and Azure Firewall. These integrations allow security teams to use AI-assisted capabilities across areas such as identity, endpoints, data and cloud security.
Security Copilot can support security teams with tasks such as analysing and summarising security incidents, investigating threats and reducing repetitive manual work. By using AI to assist analysts with these activities, organisations can potentially investigate and respond to security incidents faster while allowing security teams to focus on higher-value work.
For organisations already using Microsoft 365 E5 or E7 and Microsoft security technologies, Security Copilot can help maximise the value of their existing investment. Potential benefits include faster incident investigation and response, improved operational efficiency, greater visibility across security operations and more consistent security processes at scale.
Organisations should assess their existing Microsoft security environment, identify practical use cases for AI-assisted security and establish appropriate governance before wider adoption. Reviewing security processes, permissions and operational readiness can help ensure Security Copilot is introduced securely and delivers measurable value.
About the author
Sam Vokes, Head of Cloud Endpoint.
Sam joined Phoenix in 2019 and supports customers in defining and evolving Cloud and AI endpoint strategies, leveraging over a decade of experience in end-user computing and modern management solutions.