New Microsoft product uses cybersecurity AI to help companies track hackers

New Microsoft product uses cybersecurity AI to help companies track hackers is profiled by BTW Media because published evidence links it to internet infrastructure, governance, operational dependencies, or market visibility.

• Copilot for Security is designed to write summaries of suspected cyberattacks and answer questions in plain English
• Microsoft says security workers using the new tool perform 26% faster and with 35% more accuracy

OUR TAKE
Cybersecurity professionals in summarising suspicious events and uncovering hackers’ cunning tactics, marks a significant advancement in the field of cybersecurity.
The launch of the tool will enable cybersecurity professionals to identify potential threats more quickly and act on them quickly, enhancing cybersecurity measures and safeguarding user data and privacy.
-Jennifer YU, BYW reporter

Microsoft plans to release artificial intelligence (AI) tools on April 1 to help cybersecurity workers produce summaries of suspicious incidents and identify the devious methods hackers use to conceal their intentions.

Copilot

Microsoft unveiled its Copilot for Security about a year ago and has been testing it with corporate customers ever since. According to Andrew Conway, Microsoft’s vice-president of security marketing, “Testers include British Petroleum and Dow Chemical and now number hundreds of partners and customers, customers will pay a fee based on usage.”

Microsoft is working to infuse its major product lines with AI tools from partner OpenAI and persuade corporate customers to buy subscriptions, the safe Copilot is part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts. The security Copilot is part of Microsoft’s ongoing effort to infuse its major product lines with AI tools from partner OpenAI and persuade corporate customers to buy subscriptions.

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Function  

“There are several things, given the seriousness of the use case, that we are doing to address risks,” Conway said, including seeking ongoing feedback on the product and where it falls short. “All of that said, security is still a place today where security products generate false positives and generate false negatives. That is just the nature of the space,” he added.

The Copilot works with all of Microsoft’s security and privacy software, offering an assistant pane that can produce summaries and answer questions.

For example, one of the company’s security programmes already collects a variety of security alerts and combines the related ones into a single incident.  Now, when a user clicks on each incident, the Copilot can summarise the data and write a report, a typically time-consuming process. Often during an attack, hackers will use complicated.

“Some British Petroleum employees have been testing the Copilot,” said Chip Calhoun, the oil giant’s vice president of cyber defense. They can use the Copilot to hunt for threats, relying on the AI to quickly scan masses of data and alerts for evidence of security compromises.