Microsoft introduces AI-powered cybersecurity assistant
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PUBLISHED ONMarch 29, 2023 2:02 AM
Microsoft Corp on Tuesday (March 28) launched a tool to help cybersecurity professionals identify breaches, threat signals and better analyse data, using OpenAI's latest GPT-4 generative artificial intelligence model.
The tool, named "Security Copilot", is a simple prompt box that will help security analysts with tasks like summarising incidents, analysing vulnerabilities and sharing information with co-workers on a pinboard.
The assistant will use Microsoft's security-specific model, which the company described as "a growing set of security-specific skills" that is fed with more than 65 trillion signals every day.
The launch comes amid a flurry of announcements from Microsoft to integrate the AI into its most popular offerings.
The company has sought to outpace peers through multi-billion dollar investments in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, which recently released GPT-4 to perform a range of tasks from creating a real website through a hand-drawn mock up to helping individuals calculate their taxes.
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