“Is Copilot going to leak our strategy documents?”
Let’s tackle the biggest fear about enterprise AI head-on. When leaders ask me about Copilot’s data security, I use a simple analogy:
Imagine hiring a world-class private chef (the AI model).
You invite them into your kitchen (your secure M365 tenant) and ask them to cook using your ingredients (your data).
➡️ The chef creates a brilliant dish for you (the Copilot response).
➡️ They use your ingredients, but they don’t take them back to their public restaurant to serve other customers.
➡️ They can only use ingredients in cupboards you’ve already given them access to.
They can’t just raid your private pantry.
This is exactly how Copilot for Microsoft 365 works.
🔒 Your Kitchen: Your data stays within your Microsoft 365 tenant boundary. It’s not sent to the open internet.
🧠 Your Ingredients: Your prompts and data are never used to train the public Large Language Models. Your secrets stay yours.
🤝 Your Rules: Copilot respects all existing user permissions. If you can’t see a file, neither can it. Simple as that.
AI adoption moves at the speed of trust. By explaining the “how,” we can move past the fear and focus on the incredible potential.
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