MICROSOFT SECURITY / PROJECT PERCEPTION
Making autonomous security
financially manageable.
Microsoft Perception helps security teams delegate work to specialized AI agents. I led its core FinOps experience design, using Perception as the foundation for patterns that can scale across Microsoft Security products.
- MY CONTRIBUTION
- Led onboarding and core FinOps design
Within the broader FinOps initiative - RELEASE STATUS
- Public Preview: May–Aug 2026
GA target: November 15, 2026 - DESIGN CHALLENGE
- Clarity and control in a variable,
consumption-based system
PRODUCT CONTEXT
Security work continues.
People stay in control.
A security team can start in chat or choose a playbook: a predefined workflow that coordinates specialized AI agents around a security task.
- START WITH A GOAL
Investigate a threat
Ask in chat or choose a workflow.
- DELEGATE THE WORK
Agents work together
Find weaknesses, investigate, and help address issues.
- KEEP OVERSIGHT
People review and approve
Check results and approve critical actions.
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How do you plan a budget for work that runs autonomously?
Security administrators need to fund work whose consumption varies with activity. Practitioners need to keep investigating threats. The design challenge was to make spending understandable without making cost an obstacle to necessary security work.
I connected three decisions: plan expected costs, understand spending, and respond to budget risk. My scope covered onboarding and the core financial experience within the broader FinOps initiative.
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