“A security programme that improves its posture after each incident is the only kind that gets better over time.”
No preventative security posture is perfect. Defend operates on this reality — not as a concession but as a recognition that detection and response capability is what separates a security incident from a security crisis.
What Defend Governs
Defend covers three areas. Threat detection — monitoring for unusual behaviour in flows, agents, and connectors that may indicate compromise. Incident response — the defined path from detection through containment, investigation, and recovery. And the post-incident feedback loop — reviewing each incident to identify which SHIELD control improvement would have prevented or reduced it.
What Power Platform Provides
Microsoft Sentinel integration for Power Platform threat detection — collecting audit logs, detecting anomalous flow behaviour, and alerting on suspicious connector activity. The Microsoft Sentinel solution for Business Apps provides pre-built detection rules for common Power Platform attack patterns. Power Platform Admin Center activity logs feed directly into Sentinel for correlation with broader tenant events.
The Enterprise Gap
Most organisations have a security incident response process. Power Platform is often not explicitly included in it. When a flow is compromised or an agent behaves unexpectedly, the response path can be unclear. The platform generates the signals. Including Power Platform in the incident response process is what makes those signals actionable.
One Action
Add Power Platform to the current threat detection scope. Connect Power Platform Admin Center audit logs to the organisation’s SIEM. Define the incident response path for three Power Platform-specific scenarios — compromised maker account, Data Loss Prevention policy violation, and anomalous agent behaviour. Run the paths as a tabletop exercise before an incident occurs.
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The full Defend model, including the incident response playbooks and post-incident review framework, are in the book.