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A significant portion of the conference spotlighted Israeli engineering teams that helped build many of the showcased capabilities.
By Shula Rosen
Microsoft opened its annual Ignite gathering in San Francisco by laying out an expanded push into artificial intelligence, presenting a wide range of new tools, many of which were developed by Israeli companies present at the conference.
The event placed heavy weight on cybersecurity, reflecting growing concern that rapidly evolving AI products could create fresh entry points for attackers unless protected from the start.
One of the central reveals was a unified view of AI security assets, delivered through a new Security Dashboard that gives companies a single picture of every AI component they deploy.
A significant portion of the conference spotlighted Israeli engineering teams that helped build many of the showcased capabilities.
Dozens of Israeli firms were represented, and Microsoft highlighted deepening partnerships across the country’s cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure ecosystem.
One of the major advances developed in Israel is the integration between Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security, which merges a previously disconnected workflow: finding software vulnerabilities, determining how they affect deployed cloud systems, and issuing automated fixes through Copilot Autofix.
Israeli groups were also central to upgrades in Microsoft Defender and Agent 365, giving companies the ability to track every AI agent, model and app within their networks and identify unmanaged or risky systems.
Several of Copilot for Security’s high-profile agents—the Threat Intelligence Briefing Agent, Dynamic Threat Detection Agent, Phishing Triage Agent, and Threat Hunting Agent—were built in Israel as well.
Another Israel-developed capability, Predictive Shielding, evaluates enormous volumes of signals to strengthen defenses in real time.
Beyond security, Microsoft outlined its ambition to make AI agents standard in the workplace. A new platform, Work IQ, maps how employees collaborate across emails, documents, meetings and chats. Additional frameworks—such as Foundry IQ and Fabric IQ—are intended to provide AI agents with context for business decisions, enabling them to act with greater autonomy.
Microsoft projects that more than a billion AI agents will be operating inside companies by 2028. The company warned that without proper monitoring and governance, organizations risk creating unmanaged “shadow AI” that could expose sensitive information.
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