“Bring your AI to work” is here: Microsoft edition - What Multiple Account Access to Copilot means

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Multiple Account Access to Copilot On October 1. 2025 Microsoft released a blog post explaining how employees now can use Copilot from their personal 365 plans to work on organizational data. This is of course, an extension of the already existing "Multi account" feature that was released for corporate accounts a "couple of months" ago. In other words, “bring your own Copilot” is now a real thing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on desktop and mobile, with enterprise protections intact. “Bring your AI to work” is an important topic, and banning AI altogether might not be the answer. Whether sanctioned or shadow, AI has already entered everyday knowledge work. Microsoft’s new multi‑account access offers a safer path where employees can use Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions on work files, while the file’s access, auditing, and compliance still flow through the work identity and tenant. That’s better than users copy‑pasting sensit...

Security enhancements in Microsoft Teams

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Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams was announced back in March, but we are now seeing some of these features being released to customers subscribing to Microsoft Defender Plan 2.

Report suspicious chats or channels was one of these new features, and it should be rolling out during August. The feature is enabled by a new policy setting which is turned on by default. Admins can control this setting in the "messaging policies" in the Teams admin center.

Other features controlled by new policy settings are "URL blocking" and "ZAP protection".