Microsoft unveils new cybersecurity AI assistant ‘Security Copilot’: How it works

US tech giant Microsoft has announced the introduction of a new tool called “Security Copilot” that leverages OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 generative artificial intelligence model to help cybersecurity professionals identify data breaches and threat signals and better analyze data.

Microsoft Security Copilot is a much-needed tool for rapid threat detection and response, as well as general threat understanding.

Security Copilot combines Microsoft’s massive threat data footprint with industry-leading expertise to augment the work of security professionals with an easy-to-use AI assistant, the company said.

“The odds are still stacked against cybersecurity professionals today. Too often they are fighting an asymmetric battle against ruthless and sophisticated attackers,” says Microsoft Security Vice President Vasu Jakkal.

“With the help of Security Copilot, we shift the balance of power in our favor. Security Copilot is the first and only generative AI security product that enables defenders to move at the speed and scale of AI,” added Jakkal.

Security Copilot is designed to work seamlessly with security teams, enabling defenders to see what’s happening in their environment, learn from existing data, correlate threat activity, and make more informed and effective decisions at the speed of a machine, the company wrote in a blog post.

Security Copilot is a simple prompt box that helps security analysts summarize incidents, analyze vulnerabilities, and share information with colleagues on a bulletin board.

The assistant uses Microsoft’s security-specific model, which the company described as a “growing set of security-specific skills” fed by more than 65 trillion signals every day.

Security Copilot is also constantly learning and evolving to help ensure that security teams are operating with the latest information about attackers, their tactics, techniques and ways of operating.

The product provides continuous access to the most advanced OpenAI models to support demanding information security tasks and applications. Its visibility in threats is based on both the customer organization’s data security information and Microsoft’s extensive threat analysis footprint.

The release comes amid a flurry of announcements by Microsoft to integrate artificial intelligence into its most popular offerings.

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