Microsoft adds AI to your arsenal of cyber-defence tools

Microsoft adds AI to your arsenal of cyber-defence tools

Microsoft has announced a chatbot designed to help cybersecurity professionals quickly detect and respond to threats.

Microsoft Security Copilot will combine Microsoft's threat intelligence footprint with industry-leading expertise to augment the work of security professionals through an easy-to-use AI assistant allowing them to see what is happening in their environment, learn from existing intelligence, correlate threat activity, and make more informed, efficient decisions at machine speed.

According to Microsoft, Microsoft Security is actively 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.

Security Copilot will aid security teams by simplifying complexity, summarising and making sense of threat intelligence, helping defenders see through the noise of web traffic, and identifying malicious activity. It will also help security teams catch what others miss by correlating and summarising data on attacks, prioritising incidents and recommending the best course of action to swiftly remediate diverse threats.

Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI and Microsoft’s own security-specific model, Security Copilot looks like a simple prompt box like any other chatbot. Simply ask it a question in natural language and get a response.

Microsoft does admit that Security Copilot doesn’t always get everything right, but it is a closed-loop learning system, which means it’s continually learning from users and giving them the opportunity to give explicit feedback with the feedback feature that is built directly into the tool, and thus can itself continue to learn from these interactions.

Microsoft Security Copilot is currently available through private preview. More information can be found here.