By: Craig Kennedy
Microsoft Security Copilot—Defending the Enterprise at the Speed of AI
On Tuesday March 28th, Microsoft announced its latest use case for ChatGPT technology, Microsoft Security Copilot. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT 4 large language model (LLM) and available through private preview, this AI security assistant is extensively trained across security and network disciplines and can assist security professionals in taking concrete steps to secure the enterprise.
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Microsoft Security Copilot combines OpenAI’s advanced LLM with a model from Microsoft that is specifically designed for security. Microsoft is using its vast threat intelligence data gathered from around the world to train its model and to keep it current.
To put the size and scope of this training data into perspective, Microsoft has over 8,000 security professionals, tracks over 50 ransomware gangs and more than 250 nation-state backed cybercriminal organizations and receives more than 65 trillion threat signals every day.
Consuming Security Feeds to Identify Threats
Security Copilot currently integrates with Microsoft security products like Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender and Microsoft will be gathering information from early users to assess whether to integrate with other third-party security solutions.
Making The Complex Simple
Copilot simplifies the complex actions associated with cybersecurity evaluation and investigation with natural language prompts.
It can easily find the important security issues within the massive quantity of security events, identify how to remediate, provide information on pre and post lateral movement, generate a graph diagram of affected systems, and automatically create a PowerPoint report, all from conversational prompts.
Supercharging Your Security Team
Access to advanced AI models trained with every threat and remediation that the Microsoft security team has experienced can immediately transform any size security team into a world-class performer. Important threats that need to be addressed can be rapidly identified and singled out for remediation from the plethora of false positives that inundate a typical security team.
AI Security Wars—Combatting Evil AI With Good AI
Aragon Research has been writing about AI-powered Security for the last several years and why it’s the only way to effectively combat the ever-increasing complexity and sophistication of modern cyberattacks.
Cybercriminals are actively using AI to explore, identify, and exploit potential security vulnerabilities within target environments, so if you’re not employing AI to combat these attacks, it’s not a fair fight, and the bad guys will win.
The New Generative Content Platform?
In last week’s blog, I asked whether ChatGPT was the new Generative Content Platform. As Microsoft continues to expand its use cases for GPT assistant technology like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and now Microsoft Security Copilot, the answer appears to be a resounding yes.
Bottom Line
Microsoft Security Copilot can be a game changer for stretched security teams with its ability to quickly identify, quantify, and remediate important security issues. It can make a junior security professional as effective as a more seasoned member of the team, and a seasoned member much more productive.
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Trends in Enterprise Security – Act Now to Protect Your Enterprise
Threat actors are constantly devising new methods and tactics to bypass existing security tools. Enterprises need to stay ever vigilant of cybersecurity attacks and employ people, process, and technology to keep it protected from cyber criminals.
Your enterprise needs to evaluate AI powered security offerings that dynamically assess the threat landscape and automatically identify and mitigate any threats as soon as they are found.
Join us for a review of Aragon Research’s Cybersecurity Agenda for 2023. Some of the topics we will be discussing include:
- An overview of Aragon Research’s latest Cybersecurity research and a sneak peak at what’s coming up in 2023.
- The latest trends in cybersecurity you can’t miss in 2023.
- Some tips and tools on how to defend the enterprise against the latest wave of cybersecurity attacks.