When a user in your organization requests deletion of their Copilot conversations, you need a clear process to comply with data subject rights under GDPR and similar privacy regulations. Microsoft Copilot stores chat history in the user’s Exchange Online mailbox and Microsoft 365 unified audit log. This article explains how an administrator can delete a … Read more
Security teams must ingest Copilot audit events into their SIEM to monitor data access and user actions. Without a clear schema reference, parsing Copilot audit logs becomes guesswork. The Unified Audit Log exposes specific fields for Copilot interactions including grounding data retrieval and response generation. This article documents the key schema fields, their data types, … Read more
Microsoft Copilot processes and stores data from Microsoft 365 services, including chat histories, file references, and grounded responses. When data is stored, Microsoft encrypts it at rest using a layered key hierarchy. Understanding this hierarchy and how often encryption keys are rotated helps IT administrators evaluate data protection and compliance readiness. This article explains the … Read more
Organizations that use Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 often need to control their own encryption keys for compliance or security policies. Customer-managed keys or CMK let you create and manage your own encryption key in Azure Key Vault instead of relying on Microsoft-managed keys. This article explains how to set up CMK for Copilot, what … Read more
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 encrypts your data at rest using service-managed keys by default. Some organizations must meet compliance or regulatory requirements that demand full control over encryption keys. This is where Bring Your Own Key, or BYOK, comes into play. BYOK lets you provision, rotate, and revoke your own encryption key stored in … Read more
UK-based organizations using Microsoft Copilot need to know exactly which data remains within the country’s borders. Microsoft has established a data boundary for the European Union and the United Kingdom that governs where customer data is stored and processed. This boundary determines whether prompts, responses, and metadata from Copilot sessions reside on UK servers or … Read more
Microsoft Copilot processes and stores data in specific geographic regions. For Australian organizations, the data boundary for Copilot is the Australia region, which includes data centers in Canberra and Sydney. This boundary determines where your Copilot prompts, responses, and associated Microsoft 365 data reside. Understanding the exact resource locations helps you comply with local data … Read more
Microsoft Copilot processes and stores data in the region tied to your Microsoft 365 tenant. For tenants hosted in the Japan East Azure region, Copilot now adheres to a local data boundary. This means your prompts, responses, and associated metadata stay within Japan. Many business users need to confirm this boundary is active before rolling … Read more
Microsoft 365 administrators often need to decide between Customer Lockbox and Service Lockbox when managing data access for Copilot. Both features control how Microsoft engineers can access tenant data, but they serve different purposes and apply to different scenarios. Customer Lockbox gives you explicit approval control over any engineer access to your content. Service Lockbox … Read more
Microsoft Copilot interactions generate audit logs that record every prompt, response, and data access event. By default, Microsoft 365 retains these logs for only 90 days for users with an E5 license and 180 days for E5 Compliance add-on subscribers. If your organization needs to keep Copilot audit records for regulatory compliance, internal investigations, or … Read more