Today's defenders face overwhelming odds
Today, the odds remain heavily stacked against cybersecurity professionals. They frequently engage in an asymmetric battle against relentless and sophisticated attackers. Defenders must identify threats hidden among vast amounts of noise to protect their organizations. This challenge is exacerbated by a global shortage of skilled security professionals, with an estimated 3.4 million openings in the field.
The sheer volume and speed of attacks necessitate the continuous development of new technologies to give defenders an edge. With the scarcity of security professionals, it is crucial to empower them to disrupt attackers' traditional advantages and drive innovation within their organizations.
In recent months, we have seen a surge of innovation as organizations apply advanced AI to new technologies and use cases. We are poised for a paradigm shift, making a significant leap forward by combining Microsoft’s leading security technologies with the latest advancements in AI.
You are now welcome to a new era of security — powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI — and to introduce Microsoft Security Copilot.
Security Copilot — complete defense at machine speed and scale
Microsoft Security Copilot is the first security product to empower defenders to operate at the speed and scale of AI. It combines an advanced large language model (LLM) with a security-specific model from Microsoft, which is continually enhanced by Microsoft's unique global threat intelligence and more than 65 trillion daily signals. Running on Azure’s hyper-scale infrastructure, Security Copilot ensures an enterprise-grade security and privacy-compliant experience.
When a security professional prompts Security Copilot, it leverages the security-specific model to deploy skills and queries, maximizing the capabilities of the latest LLM. This cyber-trained model includes a learning system that creates and refines new skills, helping to catch what other approaches might miss and augmenting an analyst’s work. This boost leads to improved detection quality, faster response times, and a strengthened security posture during incidents.
While Security Copilot might not always be perfect, as AI-generated content can contain errors, it is a closed-loop learning system. This means it continually learns from user interactions, allowing users to provide explicit feedback through a built-in feature. This feedback helps refine its responses, making them more coherent, relevant, and useful over time.
Security Copilot integrates with the full suite of Microsoft Security products and will gradually expand to include a growing ecosystem of third-party products. It is more than just a large language model; it is a system that learns, enabling organizations to truly defend at machine speed.
Security is a collaborative effort, and privacy is fundamental. Security Copilot is designed with security teams in mind, ensuring that your data remains under your control and is not used to train the foundational AI models. Protected by comprehensive enterprise compliance and security controls, user interactions can be privately and easily shared among team members to accelerate incident response, enhance collaboration on complex problems, and develop collective skills.
Technology that enhances human capabilities
Human creativity and knowledge will always be crucial for defense. Security Copilot enhances security professionals' capabilities by operating at machine speed and scale, allowing human ingenuity to be applied where it matters most. Thier approach is guided by three principles:
Simplify the Complex: In security, every minute counts. Security Copilot enables defenders to respond to incidents within minutes rather than hours or days. It provides step-by-step guidance and context through a natural language-based investigation experience, accelerating incident investigation and response. By quickly summarizing processes or events and tailoring reports for specific audiences, defenders can focus on the most urgent tasks.
Catch What Others Miss: Attackers often hide behind noise and weak signals. With Security Copilot, defenders can detect malicious behavior and threats that might otherwise go unnoticed. It surfaces prioritized threats in real time and predicts attackers' next moves using Microsoft's global threat intelligence. Security Copilot includes skills that encapsulate the expertise of security analysts in areas such as threat hunting, incident response, and vulnerability management.
Address the Talent Gap: A security team's capacity is limited by its size and the natural limits of human attention. Security Copilot enhances defenders' skills by answering security-related questions, from basic to complex. It continually learns from user interactions, adapts to enterprise preferences, and advises defenders on the best actions to achieve more secure outcomes. It also supports the development of new team members by exposing them to new skills and approaches, enabling security teams to do more with less and function as if they were a larger, more mature organization.
Unmatched security capabilities
With Security Copilot, we're returning the agility advantage to defenders by integrating Microsoft's leading security technologies with the latest AI advancements. By partnering with Security Copilot, organizations gain access to unparalleled security AI capabilities, including:
Continuous access to the most advanced OpenAI models to handle the most demanding security tasks and applications.
A security-specific model that benefits from ongoing reinforcement, learning, and user feedback to cater to the unique needs of security professionals.
Visibility and up-to-date threat intelligence powered by your organization’s security products and the 65 trillion threat signals Microsoft processes daily, ensuring security teams have the latest insights into attackers' tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Integration with Microsoft’s comprehensive security portfolio for a highly efficient experience that builds on these security signals.
A growing array of unique skills and prompts enhance the expertise of security teams, setting a higher standard for what is achievable even with limited resources.
Delivering security AI in a responsible way
AI will undoubtedly transform how organizations worldwide interact with security technologies. To realize their full potential, security AI solutions must be delivered safely, securely, and responsibly. With Security Copilot, Microsoft reinforces their commitment to impactful and responsible AI practices by innovating responsibly, empowering others, and fostering a positive impact.
The cornerstone of this work is Microsoft's commitment to how Security Copilot handles your data:
Your data is your data. You own and control it, and you decide how to leverage and monetize it.
Your data is not used to train or enhance AI models for others. No one outside your organization benefits from AI trained on your data or business processes.
Your data and AI models are protected at every step by the most comprehensive enterprise compliance and security controls in the industry.
The New Era of Security
At Microsoft, we believe that security is fundamentally about people. With Security Copilot, we are shaping a future where every defender is empowered with the technologies and expertise needed to achieve their full potential. While technology will be crucial on this journey, successful security will always be a human endeavor.