Microsoft has launched the Security Copilot, an AI-powered cyber security assistant. This is a part of continuous improvement in make a new tool that will help in analyzing and responding to cyber threats. Analyst will be able to quickly respond to threats, process signals and assess risk exposure. This will happen with analyzing data, using OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 generative AI model.
The tool is a prompt box that will display responses to questions about data breaches and other security issues in a somewhat similar way as other AI-powered tools that are open for public preview. For example, you can ask the Security Copilot about a recent security breach, and it can deliver a report/ response after summarizing incidents and analyzing vulnerabilities.
“Advancing the state of security requires both people and technology — human ingenuity paired with the most advanced tools that help apply human expertise at speed and scale,” Microsoft Security executive vice president Charlie Bell said in a canned statement. “With Security Copilot we are building a future where every defender is empowered with the tools and technologies necessary to make the world a safer place.”
“Today the odds remain stacked against cybersecurity professionals. Too often, they fight an asymmetric battle against relentless and sophisticated attackers,” said Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president, Microsoft Security.
“With Security Copilot, we are shifting the balance of power into our favour. Security Copilot is the first and only generative AI security product enabling defenders to move at the speed and scale of AI,” Jakkal added.
Microsoft Security Copilot is currently available through private preview.
What can ‘Microsoft Security Co-pilot’ do and how helpful it is for organizations who work round the clock to better secure their environment from threats.
As per Microsoft Security Copilot “will simplify complexity and amplify the capabilities of security teams” by providing them with summaries and “making sense of threat intelligence”, helping those working in cybersecurity divisions in corporations to quickly identify malicious activity.
Further it will also help security teams by “correlating and summarising data on attacks, prioritising incidents and recommending the best course of action” to mitigate the issue.
Microsoft Security is tracking more than 50 ransomware gangs as well as more than 250 unique nation-state cybercriminal organisations, and receives 65 trillion threat signals every day.
Microsoft claimed that its technology blocks more than 25 billion brute-forced password theft attempts every second.
It added that over 8,000 security professionals at the company analyse more security signals than almost any other company.
How Security Copilot incorporates:
Microsoft didn’t divulge exactly how Security Copilot incorporates GPT-4 and highlighted a trained custom model perhaps GPT-4-based — powering Security Copilot that “incorporates a growing set of security-specific skills” and “deploys skills and queries” germane to cyber security.
The model isn’t trained on customer data, addressing a common criticism of language model-driven services.
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