Microsoft Expands Sentinel Into Agentic Security Platform With Unified Data Lake
Sep 30, 2025
Artificial Intelligence / Threat Detection
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the expansion of its Sentinel Security Incidents and Event Management solution (SIEM) as a unified agentic platform with the general availability of the Sentinel data lake. In addition, the tech giant said it's also releasing a public preview of Sentinel Graph and Sentinel Model Context Protocol ( MCP ) server. "With graph-based context, semantic access, and agentic orchestration, Sentinel gives defenders a single platform to ingest signals, correlate across domains, and empower AI agents built in Security Copilot, VS Code using GitHub Copilot, or other developer platforms," Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president at Microsoft Security, said in a post shared with The Hacker News. Microsoft released Sentinel data lake in public preview earlier this July as a purpose-built, cloud-native tool to ingest, manage, and analyze security data to provide better visibility and advanced analytics. With the data lake , the idea is to lay the foundat...