Microsoft Defender email security benchmarking: Key insights from one year of data

2026-06-15T20:52:16Z27d9c301f2f0a7307377c62950c539df92b0dd9053d13359dda60223d81ac2dc
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What happened

Collection of Microsoft Security Blog posts (June 2026) covering multiple high-impact security topics: (1) one-year benchmarking results showing Microsoft Defender email protection vs SEG/ICES vendors; (2) ASSERT — an open-source framework to convert natural-language specs into executable AI/agent evaluations; (3) telemetry-driven playbook for reconstructing AI activity in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI to detect data exposure; (4) social-engineering trends where attackers brandish ‘AI’ as bait; (5) a prompt-injection pathway in the Claude Code GitHub Action that could expose workflow/seal

Why it matters

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2026-06-15T20:52:16Z
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