Protect AI apps with Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Defender for Cloud addresses AI security challenges through a combination of AI threat protection and AI security posture management, integrated with Microsoft’s threat intelligence and Azure AI Content Safety Prompt Shields.
AI applications face unique vulnerabilities that differ from traditional software.
The OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, and model jailbreaking, where attackers manipulate inputs to bypass safeguards or extract sensitive information.
Additionally, AI workloads often span hybrid and multicloud environments, integrating with data stores and compute resources across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This complexity increases the attack surface, making comprehensive security critical.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud addresses these challenges through a combination of AI threat protection and AI security posture management, integrated with Microsoft’s threat intelligence and Azure AI Content Safety Prompt Shields. These tools provide real-time threat detection, posture assessment, and actionable remediation guidance, ensuring end-to-end protection for AI applications.
Stay in control with Microsoft Defender. You can identify which AI apps and cloud services are in use across your environment, evaluate their risk levels, and allow or block them as needed—all from one place. Whether it’s a sanctioned tool or a shadow AI app, you’re equipped to set the right policies and respond fast to emerging threats.
Defender XDR gives you the visibility to track complex attack paths—linking signals across endpoints, identities, and cloud apps. Investigate real-time alerts, protect sensitive data from misuse in AI tools like Copilot, and enforce controls even for in-house developed apps using system prompts and Azure AI Foundry.
Rob Lefferts, Microsoft Security CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how you can safeguard your AI-powered environment with a unified security approach.
