Late last week, Microsoft announced that after a series of high-profile data breaches involving its services, it had decided it would “make security our top priority at Microsoft, above all else.” Today, as part of the annual RSA conference in San Francisco, the company announced several new initiatives designed to increase security for business and enterprise users.

in a blog postMicrosoft said it is expanding the features of its Microsoft Defender for Cloud service to help businesses protect their AI applications and infrastructure from cyber attacks:

Security teams can now identify their entire AI infrastructure—such as plugins, SDKs, and other AI technologies—with AI security posture management capabilities on platforms like Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Machine Learning, and Amazon Bedrock. You can continuously identify risks, map attack paths, and use built-in security methods to prevent direct and indirect attacks on AI applications, from development to runtime.

Microsoft claims Defender for Cloud is the first cloud-native application to add threat detection to AI workloads at runtime.

Microsoft has also launched a preview version of the Purview AI Hub. This will give businesses additional information and data such as how many of its users access its AI apps, along with their level of risk, it will also reveal what types of sensitive data those AI apps share and more.

The company is also adding more features to its Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR services. They include putting several new threat scenarios in place to combat Defender XDR, including ways to disable malicious open authentication apps. The same service can now be used by security analysts to find risk information as part of any threat and incident investigation.

Microsoft also announced today that it has added several third-party plugins for its Copilot for Security generative AI assistant service.