Ultimate Microsoft Security Copilot for Security Operations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789349888111)

Defend Smarter, Faster, and Stronger with Microsoft Security Copilot.

Key Features

● Comprehensive, hands-on guidance to master Microsoft Security Copilot in real-world security operations.

● Step-by-step strategies to enhance threat detection, investigation, and response with AI-driven insights.

● Actionable best practices and automation tips to streamline SOC workflows, and improve team efficiency.

Book Description

Microsoft Security Copilot helps defenders keep up by using Generative AI to detect, investigate, and respond to attacks quickly and accurately. Ultimate Microsoft Security Copilot for Security Operations is your ideal, comprehensive guide to mastering this transformation.

The book takes you from understanding the foundations of AI in cybersecurity to fully integrating Microsoft Security Copilot into modern SOC, XDR, and SIEM operations. You will discover how AI is reshaping every layer of the defense stack automating workflows, enhancing visibility, and driving faster, data-backed decision-making. Through practical examples, expert insights, and actionable strategies, you will learn how to design AI-driven detection and response frameworks, create effective prompt engineering and promptbooks, and leverage AI agents to boost efficiency and consistency.

The book also walks you through implementation strategies, automation techniques, adoption roadmaps, and real-world case studies ensuring that you can move from reactive defense to proactive, intelligence-led protection with confidence.

What you will learn

● Understand the fundamentals of Generative AI in cybersecurity, and its applications in modern SOC environments.

● Gain deep expertise in Microsoft Security Copilot, its architecture, and its integration across the Microsoft ecosystem.

● Learn prompt engineering techniques, and how to create effective promptbooks for consistent, high-quality AI outcomes.

Table of Contents

1. Gen AI in Cybersecurity

2. Microsoft Security Copilot

3. Security Copilot within Microsoft Ecosystem and Beyond

4. Prompt Engineering and Promptbooks

5. Security Copilot AI Agents

6. Security Operation Center (SOC) with SC

7. Cyber Risk Operations Center (CROC) with SC

8. Security Copilot Implementation Strategy, Approach, and Roadmap

9. Security Copilot Automation and Monitoring

10. Security Copilot Pricing and Best Practices

11. Case Study with Fictional Company

12. Useful Resources

Index

About the Authors

Raghu Boddu is a Microsoft Security Dual MVP (XDR, SIEM and Security Copilot) based out of Texas, United States. He works as a Technical Director and Global Security Advisory Lead at Edgile, a Wipro company. He is also the author of Microsoft Unified XDR and SIEM Solution Handbook. A visionary leader with more than two decades of IT experience, he has helped many customers as an advisor, specializing in cyber security, legacy migration and modernization strategies, multi-cloud/hybrid implementations, digital cloud transformation roadmaps, cloud-native architectures, and so on.

Sami Lamppu is a Principal Cloud Security Lead at Elisa, a leading cybersecurity company in Finland, with over 22 years of IT experience. A Microsoft Security Dual MVP (XDR, SIEM and Security Copilot), he is a passionate advocate for cloud security and co-author of the Microsoft Unified XDR and SIEM Solution Handbook. For the past eight years, he has focused on cloud security, with expertise spanning multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.