WATERLOO, ON — October 8, 2025 — Leads & Copy — OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX) has unveiled new advancements in its Core Threat Detection and Response solution. This AI-driven cybersecurity offering is now deeply integrated with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft Copilot for Security, designed to expedite threat detection, investigation, and response for security teams while reducing alert overloads.
The integration enhances Microsoft Copilot for Security through behavior-based indicators and identity context derived from continuous endpoint and user analysis. This provides more relevant summaries, guided investigations, and recommended actions, enabling analysts to transition from signal to response swiftly and confidently.
OpenText’s solution, a core component of the next-generation OpenText Cybersecurity Cloud, offers comprehensive visibility, identity-centric protection, accelerated detection, and coordinated enterprise-wide response. Customers have shown particular interest in use cases such as insider threat and data misuse detection, account takeover and identity attack prevention, early-stage ransomware detection, alert noise reduction, and guided investigation with automated response.
According to Muhi Majzoub, OpenText EVP, Security Products, the solution simplifies security and bolsters protection against sophisticated attacks. Heather Deggans, Vice President at Microsoft, noted the partnership’s role in strengthening organizations’ security postures.
New research from the Ponemon Institute underscores the importance of reducing complexity, with 73% of security leaders emphasizing streamlining security to bolster their posture.
OpenText Core Threat Detection and Response is available as part of the OpenText Cybersecurity Cloud.
Contact:
Muhi Majzoub, OpenText EVP, Security Products
Heather Deggans, Vice President, Americas Software Development Companies, Enterprise Partner Solutions from Microsoft
Source: OpenText
