Tech Spotlight | A Channel Expert's View of Today's Microsoft 365 Security Landscape
Part One of the Cybersecurity Tech Spotlight Series
Date: Wednesday, October 7 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET
With more than three-quarters of the Fortune 500 living on it, Microsoft 365 is the day-to-day working environment for most of the businesses of all sizes you serve, which makes it the default target too. Native security inside the platform has genuinely improved over the past few years, but Copilot has changed the calculus again. With reach into every file, chat, and mailbox a user can touch, Copilot is surfacing years of quietly oversharing permissions that nobody thought to audit. At the same time, attackers are using that same class of AI to create more hazardous threats that move faster than most patch cycles allow.
Drawing on over five decades experience in the IT channel Howard M. Cohen gives partners the practitioner's read on where Microsoft 365 security stands today:
- An honest look at how far native tools like Defender and Purview have come.
- What Copilot's rollout has exposed about data governance that the security stack wasn't built to catch.
- Where the real gaps still exist.
A channel veteran's assessment, not a vendor pitch. What's working, what MSPs still need to build around, and how to talk to clients about Copilot risk without either scaring them off.
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About the presenter:
Howard M. Cohen, Technologist & Senior "Resultant
Howard M. Cohen, technologist, creator of compelling content, and senior "resultant," has spent more than 40 years in the IT industry. During that time, he has held senior executive positions in many of the top channel partner organizations, and he currently writes for and about IT and the IT channel. He's a sought-after speaker, an insightful observer of the technology landscape, and one of our favorite presenters.
Date: October 07, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 1 Hour