Admin Guard Insight Agent

Admin Guard Insight is a Security Copilot agent designed to continuously assess and contextualize privileged administrative activity across Microsoft security workloads.

The agent provides security teams with a clear, risk-oriented view of who is performing administrative actions, where those actions occur, and how they relate to identity exposure and security posture. By correlating signals from Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Sentinel, Admin Guard Insight helps accelerate investigations and improve governance over privileged access.

Admin Guard Insight identifies the most frequently executed administrative activities, highlights potentially risky or unusual behavior, and delivers actionable insights aligned with Zero Trust and least-privilege principles. The output is optimized for both SOC analysts and identity/security administrators, combining technical depth with executive-ready summaries.

Key capabilities

• Visibility into top administrative actions executed over a defined period
• Detection of risky or anomalous privileged activity patterns
• Correlation of identity events with security signals from Defender and Sentinel
• Contextual analysis aligned with Zero Trust and least-privilege models
• Clear, structured outputs suitable for operational and executive audiences

Security Copilot Units (SCU) consumption

Admin Guard Insight is designed with predictable and optimized SCU consumption, adapting its execution logic based on tenant size and data volume.

Estimated SCU consumption per execution:

• Small Business environments: ~1.5 – 1.9 SCUs
  (e.g., limited number of administrators and low telemetry volume)

• Medium environments: ~2.3 – 3.6 SCUs
  (e.g., multiple admin roles and moderate identity and security telemetry)

• Enterprise environments: ~4.1 – 6.8 SCUs
  (e.g., large-scale tenants with extensive privileged identities and high data volume)

Admin Guard Insight applies data scoping, pre-filtering, and correlation-first logic to ensure efficient execution while maintaining high-fidelity security insights across organizations of all sizes.