BlinkOps has entered an exclusive partnership with Microsoft, bringing agentic security automation natively to Microsoft Sentinel users via the Azure Marketplace and Sentinel Content Hub. This marks a significant milestone for security operations teams, providing capabilities that have long been in demand but not previously available in a fully integrated form.
This partnership emerged from simple yet strong demand of enterprise security operations centre (SOC) teams who needed advanced automation capabilities that could seamlessly integrate with their existing Microsoft infrastructure without relying on engineering or coding experience. Microsoft and BlinkOps are accelerating automation through the implementation of micro-agent capabilities.
What we’re offering is the immediate availability of state-of-the-art agentic automation, tightly integrated with Sentinel as a product. This represents something fundamentally different from what's been available before.
BlinkOps is currently the only agentic security automation vendor available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This partnership represents something powerful for customers: a deeply integrated, purpose-built solution that treats automation as a core capability within the Microsoft security ecosystem.
SOC teams have always wanted to operate at speed, accuracy and scale which can only be achieved through automation but were limited. Traditional security automation approaches often create operational challenges for enterprise teams. Traditionally, building workflows with other tools leads to solutions that require engineering experience, constant maintenance under real-world conditions.
Most solutions delivered rigid playbooks that broke when environments changed, or overly complex platforms that required engineering teams to maintain. Customers often end up with multiple vendor solutions, each creating its own integration challenges, procurement friction and operational complexity.
BlinkOps bridges that gap by providing agentic security automation that feels natural to work with and native to the Microsoft environment. We've reduced the red tape, the purchasing challenges, and made automation readily available within their technology stack, consumable through a marketplace they know and trust with use cases tailor-made for the common Sentinel user.
The convergence of Microsoft's advances with Sentinel's alert storage, triage and detection capabilities, combined with our major investments in agentic security automation, represents a fundamental shift. The advancements we've made in the past six months enable organisations to build their own agents and leverage agentic abilities to consume alerts, analyse them and offer intelligent responses while keeping humans in the loop. This level of sophisticated automation simply wasn't available a year ago.
Our agents go beyond executing predefined workflows. They consume alerts, analyse context and offer intelligent responses that adapt to changing conditions. We are at a point in time where this is truly doable. The jump we're seeing is orders of magnitude higher than everything that came before us.
This sophisticated automation is now powering production security operations for enterprise customers.
So, what does this mean for security operations? The operational benefits are immediate and measurable.
Firstly, we're providing a set of capabilities that completely remove the bottlenecks, struggles, and hoops that slow down SOC teams today. Instead of waiting for engineering resources to build custom integrations or writing scripts to connect tools, SOC teams can trigger automated workflows directly from Sentinel alerts and run very quickly across their entire security stack.
Secondly, you won't need to go through the common integration challenges that everybody else faces. Those integration headaches, the constant maintenance, the brittle connections that break when environments change, all of that becomes part of your past, not your daily operational pain.
We've also reduced the red tape and purchasing challenges that typically slow down security tool adoption. BlinkOps is readily available within your technology stack, consumable through the Azure Marketplace you already know and trust. You can apply your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment, avoid lengthy procurement cycles, and deploy under existing agreements. Implementation happens in minutes, not months.
Lastly, you don't have to think about how to integrate automation, it's just there for you to use. We're bridging the gap between external automation technology and the Microsoft ecosystem you're already working in. With use cases tailor-made for common Sentinel users, 80 per cent of the automation work is already done for you.
We’re also solving use cases once out of reach. The following examples demonstrate capabilities that weren't feasible with traditional automation approaches. Each scenario requires contextual reasoning and multi-system coordination that goes beyond simple alert-to-action workflows.
Identity theft response with employment context
When Sentinel detects a suspicious login, BlinkOps agents can reason through employment status by checking Workday records and examining recent password reset activity. If the login appears unauthorised, the system sends an approval request through Teams. Once approved, BlinkOps automatically suspends the user account in Entra ID. This type of cross-system reasoning and human-in-the-loop approval wasn't practical with traditional workflow tools.
Malware response based on device risk
After Sentinel receives a Defender for Endpoint malware alert, BlinkOps agents evaluate the device's enrolment status in Intune and assess its current Defender risk score. When risk levels warrant isolation, the system routes an approval request to the SOC through Teams. Upon approval, BlinkOps isolates the device automatically. The ability to combine endpoint data with policy compliance information enables more informed response decisions.
Service account monitoring with role analysis
When Sentinel flags unusual service account activity, BlinkOps agents examine the account's role assignments and recent multi-factor authentication (MFA) usage patterns. For elevated accounts without recent MFA activity, the system presents response options like role removal or password reset through an approval workflow. Once the SOC approves an action, BlinkOps executes the change in Entra ID. This contextual analysis of identity permissions and authentication patterns enables more nuanced security responses.
These scenarios showcase how agents can process multiple data sources, apply logical reasoning, and coordinate responses across different systems while maintaining human oversight where needed.
The BlinkOps integration with Microsoft Sentinel is available now. You can deploy it in minutes and start running prebuilt workflows immediately.
In addition, within the next few months, we're building an even deeper native integration that will allow Sentinel users to trigger BlinkOps automations directly from the Sentinel interface without changing anything. This will create an experience where Microsoft customers feel as if they're still within the Microsoft sandbox, working only with Microsoft products.
This vision extends this integration across the broader Microsoft security platform, including Defender and Copilot. Imagine agentic automation available wherever Microsoft security tools are deployed across your organisation. This is right around the corner.
We're at an inflection point in security operations. The combination of advanced SIEM capabilities and agentic automation finally makes it possible for SOC teams to operate at the scale and speed their organisations demand.
After seeing all the iterations of security tools over the decades, we believe we're at a point where this transformation is finally achievable. The technological foundations can finally deliver on the automation promises that have been made for years. The BlinkOps partnership with Microsoft demonstrates that sophisticated automation can be accessible, reliable, and transformative for security operations. The future of security is intelligent automation that turns detection into resolution automatically, consistently, and at scale. That future starts today.
BlinkOps is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and the Sentinel Content Hub. Deploy in minutes and start automating your security operations without engineering overhead.
Zion Zatlavi is CBO and co-founder of BlinkOps