Detect & Respond to AI Data Risk

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Turn AI audit signals, insider-risk indicators, and communication-compliance findings into investigation and response — bridged into Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel.

Preventing data loss reduces AI risk but never eliminates it. This topic closes the loop on the data that still moves. It captures the prompt-and-response audit trail every investigation starts from, identifies users whose AI behavior signals risk, flags regulated or inappropriate content in prompts and responses, and drives response when an agent is attacked or sensitive data is exposed. Insider-risk and threat signals correlate into Microsoft Defender XDR, and Copilot and AI activity join broader telemetry in Microsoft Sentinel for end-to-end hunting and response.

How to address Detect & Respond to AI Data Risk

  1. Detect and Respond to Risky AI Data Activity

    Close the loop — turn AI audit signals, insider-risk indicators, and communication-compliance findings into investigation and response, bridged into Defender XDR and Sentinel.
    Detect and Respond to Risky AI Data Activity
    Microsoft Purview
    Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
    Microsoft Defender XDR
    Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management
    Microsoft Sentinel
    AI and Agent Activity Audit Agents Users Data Communication Compliance for AI Interactions Users Data eDiscovery for Agent Interactions Agents Data Insider Risk Signals for AI Activity Users Data Agent Threat Detection Agents Purview DSPM AI Interaction Discovery Users Copilot Activity Investigation Agents Users Data

Control coverage

Control coverage for Detect & Respond to AI Data Risk — where its 7 capabilities land across your security control domains and the AI surfaces they protect. Select any control domain to reveal the capabilities behind it.
Control domain
Agents
Users
Infrastructure
Endpoints
Data
Coverage
Monitoring
6

Continuous observability of AI workload behaviour, usage, and anomalies through logging, metrics, and alerting — enabling detection of drift, misuse, and security events.

Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Defender XDR
Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
Microsoft Sentinel
Compliance
3

Controls that help organisations meet regulatory and policy obligations for AI systems, including audit trails, data residency, and policy enforcement.

Microsoft Purview
Incident Response
2

Capabilities that support detection, investigation, containment, and recovery for security incidents involving AI workloads — including automated response playbooks, forensic telemetry, and remediation guidance.

Microsoft Defender XDR
Microsoft Sentinel
Threat Detection
2

Capabilities that identify, alert on, and help respond to threats targeting AI models, inference endpoints, training pipelines, and supporting infrastructure.

Microsoft Defender XDR
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
Discovery
1

Capabilities for discovering and inventorying AI assets, workloads, shadow AI usage, connected applications, and data sources — providing visibility as the foundation for securing what you can see.

Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management
Governance
1

Organisational and technical controls for managing the lifecycle of AI models, agents, and workloads — including inventory, policy, and accountability frameworks.

Microsoft Purview

Products

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