Defending at machine speed
Picture this: you’re a brand-new security operations coordinator at a major company that’s been hit with dozens of daily ransomware attack attempts. You need to analyze, understand, and develop a threat defense plan – and all on your first day.
Naturally, Microsoft thinks generative AI can give a big assist here, and now, after a year of beta testing, Microsoft is officially rolling out Copilot for Security, a platform that might make that first day go much, much more smoothly.
In some ways, Copilot for Security (originally called ‚Security Copilot‘) is like a bespoke version of the Copilot generative AI (based on GPT-4) you’ve seen in Windows, on Microsoft 365, and in the increasingly popular mobile app, but one with enterprise-level security on the brain.
When it comes to security, companies of all sizes need all the help they can get. According to Microsoft, there are 4,000 password attacks per second, and 300 unique nation-state crime actors. It takes, the company told us, just 72 minutes from the time someone in your organization clicks on a phishing link for one of these attackers to gain full access to your data. These attacks cost businesses trillions of dollars every year.
In demos, I was shown how Microsoft Copilot for Security acts as a sort of intense and ultra-fast security consultant, able to read through complex hash files and scripts to divine their true intent, and quickly recognize both known threats and things that act like existing threats.
