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Ahead of the Curve: Implementing Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Falco’s Protective Edge

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Sean McGrath April 7, 2024

Ahead of the Curve: Implementing Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Falco’s Protective Edge

 

What is Copilot for Microsoft 365?

Today there are countless versions of Copilot available. Particularly with the options to create your own custom Copilot. However, in this blog we will be focusing on Copilot for Microsoft 365. which is integrated into Microsoft 365 Apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook and more. Bring the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to your work apps. It also scans your entire universe of data (from emails to meetings, chats to documents, and everything on the web) to help you solve problems at work.

This is an exciting opportunity for all businesses to streamline many of their common tasks.

But, what about data protection and security?

Since the announcement that Copilot for Microsoft 365 was expanding to businesses of all sizes, it has opened up Microsoft’s premium Copilot offering to all small and medium sized businesses.

What where does the responsibility lie between Microsoft and yourself. Let’s break it down.

What does Microsoft handle?

    • Tenant isolation: Copilot only uses data from the current user’s Microsoft 365 tenant. The AI tool cannot use data shared from another company’s tenant.

    • Training boundaries: Copilot does not use any of your business data to train the foundational Large Language Model’s that Copilot uses for all tenants.

What you need to manage?

    • Permissions: Copilot surfaces all organisational data to which individual users access to.

    • Labels: Copilot will respect the restrictions of any sensitivity labels applied to files. Therefore, labels are an important consideration.

    • Humans: Copilot’s responses aren’t guaranteed to be 100% factual, humans must take responsibility for reviewing AI-generated content.

How Falco can help

The team here at Falco are ready to help you on your Copilot journey. From readiness and all the way through the adoption process.

Benefit from our 20+ years of experience in the IT industry.

Click here and book your free demo and Copilot readiness assessment.

Sean McGrath

Business Development & Technology Manager