Cybersecurity professionals continue to have their work cut out for them, fighting an attacking horde of relentless and savvy criminals. Cyber defenders must react to hidden threats to keep their organizations safe, often with short-staffed teams. The volume and speed of these attacks require cyber professionals to continually develop new technologies that can give the good guys an advantage. Experienced security professionals are hard to find, and Microsoft is working to provide them with the tools they need to derail attackers’ conventional advantages. In the last few months, AI innovation has been introduced to various new technologies, creating a paradigm shift – and giving security innovation a boost. At a recent event, Microsoft Security Copilot was introduced, a product powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI.
Microsoft Security Copilot — Complete Defense
Microsoft Security Copilot is the first security product to give security professionals the ability to operate at the speed and scale of AI. It delivers enterprise-grade security and a compliant privacy experience, running on Azure’s hyper-scale infrastructure.
When Security Copilot acquires a prompt from a cybersecurity professional, it utilizes the comprehensive power of the security-specific model to extend skills and queries that maximize the value of the latest extensive language model capabilities. The cyber-trained model adds a learning system to create and refine new skills, augmenting an analyst’s work without missing discrepancies other methods may miss. However, Security Copilot is not infallible, and AI-generated content can contain errors. But Copilot is a closed-loop learning system, which means it’s always learning from users and providing the opportunity to utilize the inherent feedback feature in the tool. Responses are continually updated to develop more meaningful and relevant answers.
Microsoft Security Copilot was developed with security teams in mind— your data is always yours, and it is not utilized to train the AI models. While remaining confidential, each interaction can be easily shared with other team members to speed incident response, work together more effectively on challenging problems and develop collective skills.
AI Technology that Augments Humanity
Human ingenuity will always be necessary for cyber defense. Security Copilot can work alongside security professionals with machine speed and scale, so human creativity is maximized when it matters.
- Make the Complex Simple
With Security Copilot, cyber professionals can defend against security incidents within minutes, saving precious time. The ability to rapidly summarize any event and refine reporting to fit a specific audience frees defenders to concentrate on more important work. - Hear Beneath the Noise
Cybercriminals are often obscured by noise and weak signals. Cyber professionals can now identify nefarious behavior and threat signals that might have previously gone undetected. Security Copilot exposes prioritized threats in real time and predicts the attacker’s next move with ongoing reasoning technology. Security Copilot also comes equipped with expertise that mirrors that of incident response and vulnerability management security analysts. - Solve the Challenges of the Skills Gap
A security team’s ability will always be limited by the size of the team and the amount of time each is focused on the matter at hand. Security Copilot enhances and elevates the team’s skills with its ability to answer a range of security-related questions. Security Copilot learns from user interactions, adapts to corporate-wide preferences, and advises network defenders on the best way to achieve more secure outcomes.
As AI and humanity continue to navigate how we can work together, Microsoft continues to be on the leading edge of innovation. If your small business is interested in how Microsoft Copilot can augment the skills of your security team, cal Alliance IT for a demonstration and more information.
