Microsoft named an overall leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense

Microsoft announces its recognition as an overall leader in KuppingerCole’s Generative AI Defense Leadership Compass and outlines a comprehensive, integrated approach to securing AI across apps, agents, platforms, and infrastructure. The report highlights CISO priorities—mapping AI usage, adopting identity-first controls, enforcing data governance and DLP, building layered defenses, and choosing integrated solutions—and details how Microsoft delivers these via Entra Agent ID, Purview, Defender, Agent365, Foundry Control Plane, and Security Dashboard for AI, with built-in support for frameworks such as the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001.