LightBeam.ai has announced its Summer 2025 product release, which adds new features to help enterprises secure Microsoft Copilot usage.
Companies will be able to monitor Copilot prompts, responses, and file access to ensure that sensitive data is being properly safeguarded. It will be able to access all documents that are referenced, including Excel workbooks, CSV files, source code, PowerPoint decks, or contracts.
The platform will tag sensitive attributes, check entitlements, and route alerts into the company’s existing governance and privacy workflows.
“Generative AI tools like Copilot are changing how employees interact with data, but they’re also opening the door to a new class of risks,” said Himanshu Shukla, CEO of LightBeam. “Security leaders need visibility into what Copilot is surfacing, and they need the ability to stop dangerous behaviors before sensitive data is wiped, exposed, or weaponized. That’s exactly what we’ve built.”
The company also added ransomware protection with a behavioral shield that learns the day-to-day usage of users, then flags spikes in behavior that indicate activities like mass encryption, mass deletion, or silent exfiltration. Admins will be able to instantly pause active sessions, revoke permissions, or isolate compromised identities.
Similarly, identity-aware analytics will surface high-risk behavior from users, service accounts, or Copilot sessions. It develops baselines for each identity, which allows it to flag anomalies, such as a 5x increase in file writes. Events include data classification, sensitivity, and entitlement context data, and IT teams will be able to perform similar actions to the ransomware protection capabilities.
Another new feature is Access Review, which allows IT teams to see who has access to any drive, group, or user, allowing them to better identify situations where there is nested access.
Other new features in this release include support for the Google Tag Manager to manage cookie consent, Role Based Access Control, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deployment support, and Egnyte data source support.
“If you lead security or data governance, you do not need another dashboard. You need a system of record for sensitive data and the humans connected to it, with automation that closes the loop. That is the north star for the LightBeam platform, and our Summer Release moves it forward in practical ways, from ransomware containment to consent and AI oversight,” the company wrote in a blog post.
