Microsoft Security Copilot
GenAI copilot for SOC analysts, now bundled into Microsoft 365 E5
Overview
Microsoft's generative-AI assistant for security teams — summarizes incidents, reverse-engineers scripts, and drafts response plays inside Defender, Sentinel and Entra. Priced by consumption (Security Compute Units) or bundled into Microsoft 365 E5/E7 licenses.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- No Microsoft 365 E5/E7 required
- ~$2,920/mo for one provisioned SCU
- Scale up or down anytime
- No extra charge within allocation
- Overage billed at $6/SCU
- Allocation resets monthly, no rollover
- 400 SCUs per 1,000 licenses/month
- Applies to Microsoft Sentinel scenarios too
- Overage at $6/SCU
Use cases
What you can produce with Microsoft Security Copilot
- Incident and alert summarization across Defender/Sentinel/Entra
- Natural-language investigation queries
- Script and command deobfuscation/reverse-engineering
- Guided incident response playbooks
- Native integration with Microsoft 365 E5/E7 licensing
- Consumption-based Security Compute Unit billing
- Azure-hosted, tenant-scoped deployment
ASEAN Perspective
Microsoft Security Copilot in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Security Copilot earns its keep inside a Microsoft-heavy stack: it reads Defender, Sentinel, Intune and Entra signals natively, more integration depth than most bolt-on AI security tools manage. Reviewers consistently flag the same two things — genuinely useful incident summarization and script deobfuscation, and a cost model nobody loves. Since July 2026, Microsoft folded a monthly Security Compute Unit allowance into Microsoft 365 E5/E7 (400 SCUs per 1,000 licenses, capped at 10,000/month), which makes it effectively free for E5 shops but throttles hard once you exceed the allocation — SCUs don't roll over, and a busy incident month can burn through quota fast. Standalone pricing is $4/SCU/hour, which adds up quickly without E5. Good pick if you're already deep in Microsoft security tooling; a hard sell to build a business case around otherwise.
What people say
Microsoft's SCU pricing model is the single most argued-about part of Security Copilot, and it changed again in July 2026. Historically a standalone SKU billed at $4 per Security Compute Unit per hour (roughly $2,920/month for one provisioned unit), Security Copilot now ships a monthly allocation to Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 customers: 400 SCUs per 1,000 licensed users, capped at 10,000 SCUs/month, at no extra charge. Go over the allocation and extra SCUs cost $6 each, pay-as-you-go, through Azure billing — and unused SCUs don't carry over to the next month.
G2 reviewers are positive on the core mechanic: AI-generated incident summaries and natural-language query building against Defender/Sentinel data get repeated praise for cutting the time analysts spend piecing together an investigation from raw logs, and the script/command reverse-engineering feature comes up often as a time-saver for junior analysts facing obfuscated code. PeerSpot users rate it around 8/10 on average. The recurring negative, echoed across G2, TrustRadius writeups and buyer guides, is cost predictability — consumption pricing is hard to forecast, and several reviewers note that without an E5 subscription the standalone SCU cost is difficult to justify against alternatives.
Practically, the throttling behavior matters more than the sticker price for teams already on E5: field writeups from 2026 aimed at E5/E7 customers warn that aggressive agent use during a live incident can exhaust a month's SCU allocation faster than expected, leaving analysts without Copilot access until the next reset unless they buy overage SCUs. That's a meaningfully different failure mode than a traditional software subscription — the tool can simply stop working mid-incident if nobody's watching consumption.
Net: a strong tool if you're already paying for Microsoft 365 E5 or E7, since the AI capability rides on a license you likely already own. Considerably harder to justify as a standalone purchase given the consumption pricing and Microsoft-centric integration depth.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Microsoft Security Copilot's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Microsoft Security Copilot unless explicitly stated.
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