Are your enterprise automation workflows connected to your security stack?

Every enterprise automation workflow touches files. Documents, invoices, purchase orders, claims—data moving at machine speed across systems and teams. But how many of those workflows share context with your security tool stack, detect, or even respond to threats?

Most don't. Security scanning happens elsewhere, owned by a different team, running on different tools. The result is a gap: business processes move fast, security stays reactive.

As industry data consistently shows, the average time to identify and contain a breach remains over 200 days. Yet the majority of security and governance processes are still manual, repetitive, and siloed across teams.

AI empowers us to consolidate the basic principles of how we secure and govern enterprise automation, and we’re continuously innovating to helping customers further de-risk.

Security and governance are evolving

In the beginning, focus was on network security, identity management, and the tooling were deployed in silos: firewalls here, endpoint protection there, identity systems somewhere else. Each team owned a piece of the puzzle, but no one owned the whole picture.

Later, cloud adoption and digital transformation exploded the attack surface. Security operations centers (SOCs) emerged to centralize detection and response, but they were overwhelmed by alert volume, talent shortages, and fragmented tooling. Governance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST became table stakes, but operationalizing them remained largely manual.

Enterprise automation enters the picture: workflows processing hundreds of thousands of requests, issues, files daily in one customer environments alone, moving data across systems, triggering downstream business actions. Security teams secured the perimeter, the endpoints, the cloud, and most recently the AI agents.

The automation layer consists of potential waiting to be leveraged: security and risk mitigation can reach new heights with the help of additional context from the business layer and processes.

Automation integrates with the security stack

The origins of threats are often backtracked to business processes where one or more (usually external) data sources become compromised—for example, a supplier or service provider that sends the files/invoices to be processed. The UiPath Platform™ has all the capabilities required to mitigate threats directly at the source.

Actions such as scanning files, reporting incidents, flagging threats sources tie directly in the business automation process, adding a security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) layer. The UiPath Platform™ now includes official integrations for Microsoft security solutions including Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, and Security Copilot. Developers can leverage them in automations for threat mitigation, aggregating signals, accelerating Security Copilot analysis + response with the help of additional context from the business process.

UiPath’s integration with Microsoft fuse automation with builtin security and governance—enriching signals with business context, empowering human-in-the-loop decisions, and accelerating detection and response—so enterprises can scale agentic automation with confidence.”

Ruthy Kaidar, Managing Director Solutions, Software Companies, Microsoft EMEA

New connectors for security orchestration

Try the SOAR solution accelerator in the UiPath Marketplace.

The SOAR solution accelerator contains multiple connectors (as seen above and described below).

UiPath Connector for Microsoft Sentinel

The UiPath Connector for Microsoft Sentinel provides automations to create, update, list, modify, close, and enrich security incidents directly in Sentinel. It acts as the communication channel between the workflow and the organization’s SOC environment. Whenever data is classified as harmful, the connector sends all relevant details collected during the process. This ensures that SecOps receive immediate visibility into threats discovered during document intake, without waiting for manual reporting or human intervention.

UiPath Connector for Microsoft Defender for Cloud

The UiPath Connector for Microsoft Defender for Cloud enables users to trigger and retrieve results from automated security scans performed by Defender for Cloud. Defender examines the data for malware, suspicious behavior, and known threat signatures. The scan results—including the final verdict, threat severity, and metadata—are passed back into the automation.

UiPath Connector for threat intelligence

The UiPath connector integrates with the Microsoft Sentinel threat intelligence platform, allowing the automation to publish threat indicators whenever malicious data is identified. Each harmful item results in a new intelligence indicator, which may include additional details gathered during the process. By contributing these indicators to the organization’s threat intelligence (TI) dataset, the connector supports correlation across other security events, enhances detection rules, and strengthens the organization’s overall defensive posture.

Security-aware enterprise automation workflow

All documents processing automations can benefit fast from our new security orchestration capabilities by integrating with the recently published SOAR solution accelerator.

When a file enters a UiPath automation workflow, Microsoft Defender scans it before automation acts on it. Not at the perimeter. Not on the endpoint after the fact. At the point of ingestion, before the workflow proceeds. Defender brings behavioral analysis, signature-less threat intelligence, and detection of infostealers, remote access trojans (RATs), and loaders directly into the automation layer. If the file is clean, the process continues. If it isn't, the response chain activates immediately.

That response starts with Microsoft Sentinel. The event doesn't arrive as a raw alert. It arrives enriched with business context from UiPath: which workflow triggered it, which system was involved, which business unit, which transaction type. The SOC doesn't see "malicious file detected." They see "malicious file detected inside Accounts Payable automation processing vendor invoices for Region EMEA." That context changes everything about how the incident is prioritized and handled.

Microsoft Security Copilot then brings the analyst into the loop without slowing the response down. Incidents are summarized instantly. Attack chains are mapped. Remediation steps are recommended in natural language. The analyst understands the full picture in minutes, not hours.

And then UiPath executes. Quarantine the file. Pause the workflow. Block the sender. Notify compliance. Escalate to the legal department. Open a ServiceNow incident. Notify finance leadership. Every action automated, traceable, and governed, without a human having to manually bridge security tools and business systems.

This is closed-loop, AI-assisted, human-supervised detection and response, embedded directly into enterprise automation. All automated. All traceable. All governed.

When speaking about AI, I often say, ‘Context is everything.’ The same rule applies in Security Operations. An artifact without business context is just a data point. Once you enrich it with workflow metadata, transaction type, and business impact, it becomes actionable intelligence. That transformation builds trust, drives confident decision-making, accelerates triage, and meaningfully reduces MTTR.

Andrei Cotaie, Principal Security Engineer, UiPath TrustOps – Security Operations

This is not just detection. It’s automated remediation aligned to business process logic.