Microsoft launches first AI security assistant, will help in preventing cybercrime.

Tech giant Microsoft has introduced its new AI tool AI Security Assistant (Microsoft Security Copilot) with capabilities similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company said that this security assistant is based on Open AI’s GPT-4 technology and is a large-scale multimodal. Microsoft says that with its help, it will help to identify and prevent cyber attacks.

What is Microsoft Security Copilot?

Microsoft’s new AI Security Assistant is also equipped with ChatGPT-like artificial assistant capabilities. It is based on Open AI’s GPT-4 technology and can accept text input as well as image input and produce text output.

The company said in its official blog that the Security Assistant works with a simple prompt box that will help security analysts summarize events, analyze vulnerabilities, and share information with colleagues on a pinboard.

Will use security-specific model

Security Assistant will use Microsoft’s security-specific model. This model is what the company calls “a growing set of security-specific skills,” and more than 65 trillion signals are added to it every day.

Why was the security assistant brought?

Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security, has given information about the purpose of introducing Security Assistant or Security Co-Pilot. He said that today many types of problems are seen even for cyber security experts. Too often they fight an asymmetric battle against relentless and sophisticated cyber attackers.

With Security Assistant, we are shifting the balance of power in our favour. With the help of AI, cyber security experts will be able to help. The blog also mentions that the Microsoft security team is currently monitoring over 50 ransomware groups and over 250 specific cybercriminal organizations affiliated with nation-states.