By launching its new Security Copilot, Microsoft is integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT capabilities into its cybersecurity company. The business stated on Tuesday that the Security Copilot is designed for security professionals to recognize and defend against cyber-attacks. It is built on Open AI’s GPT-4 technology, a large-scale, multimodal model that can accept image and text inputs and produce text outputs.
According to the company’s official blog, The Security Copilot is a straightforward prompt box that will assist security analysts with duties like summarising incidents, analyzing vulnerabilities, and sharing information with coworkers on a pinboard. Microsoft’s security-specific model, which the company defined as “a developing set of security-specific skills” that are fed with more than 65 trillion signals daily,” will be used by the assistant.
According to a blog post by Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft Security’s Corporate Vice President, cybersecurity professionals are facing an uneven battle against persistent and highly skilled attackers.
However, with the launch of Security Copilot, Microsoft aims to shift the balance in favor of security teams. The technology is integrated with other Microsoft Security products and continuously learns and improves to stay ahead of evolving threats.
The company’s vast security infrastructure, comprising over 8,000 professionals and more than 100 distinct data sources, is used to prevent over 25 billion password theft attempts per second. In an interview with Bloomberg, Jakkal revealed that the average time for attackers to gain full access to an inbox after a user clicks a phishing link is now just one hour and 12 minutes.
Microsoft’s recent acquisitions, including RiskIQ and Miburo, have enabled the company to gain valuable threat intelligence, and the launch of Copilot X, an upgraded AI code assistant, further strengthens its security capabilities.