Microsoft Unveils Security Enhancements for Identity, Defense, Compliance

Microsoft made several announcements on Tuesday at its annual Ignite conference for developers and IT professionals, unveiling security enhancements in products such as Defender, Sentinel, Copilot, Intune, Purview, and Entra. 

A majority of the security announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025 are related to the company’s Defender product. 

New Defender capabilities designed to improve the ability to detect and thwart attacks include Predictive Shielding, an automatic attack disruption component that can anticipate an attacker’s movements and proactively block potential attack pathways, and a Threat Hunting Agent that can be used to orchestrate threat hunting through the use of natural language.

In addition, Microsoft announced third-party attack disruption capabilities based on data collected through the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM solution from AWS, Okta, and Proofpoint products.

The tech giant has introduced an integration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security, enabling users to protect cloud-native apps across their full ...