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Aakash Rahsi
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Copilot Security, Privacy & Trust | Microsoft’s Guarantees and the Evidence Your Tenant Must Stand On

Copilot Security, Privacy & Trust

Microsoft’s Guarantees and the Evidence Your Tenant Must Stand On

For months everyone has been talking about Copilot security, privacy and trust.

I wanted to do something quieter – take Microsoft’s own guarantees and turn them into evidence your tenant can actually stand on.

In this new piece, I’ve mapped:

  • How Copilot keeps your business data inside your Microsoft 365 tenant, honoring the same privacy, security and compliance commitments as the rest of the platform
  • What Microsoft really means by “your data is your data” – no training on your tenant content, no data exfiltration to the public internet, and role-based access inherited from your existing permissions model
  • Where data residency, EU Data Boundary, encryption at rest/in transit, and compliance certifications show up as operational guarantees instead of marketing bullets
  • How to turn those guarantees into a tenant reality check: Entra ID, Conditional Access, Intune compliance, Purview labels/DLP, Graph permissions and CVE-wave exposure windows that either honour Microsoft’s promises or quietly weaken them

This isn’t a “Copilot is amazing” hype post.

It’s a translation layer between:

“Copilot Security, Privacy & Trust | Microsoft’s Guarantees and the Evidence Your Tenant Must Stand On”

and the real questions every CISO, architect and regulator will ask:

Can you prove – with exports, not slides – that Copilot stayed inside the rails Microsoft promised you?

If you live in the Azure / Microsoft 365 / security / compliance world and you care about tenant-proof, auditor-proof AI, this one is for you.

Read the complete article:

https://www.aakashrahsi.online/post/copilot-security

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