The co-pilot turns out useful AI chatbot thanks to its natural language processing capabilities, footnotes and more.. And Microsoft is transposing these capabilities into security with its Microsoft Copilot for Security offering, which should arrive in production soon.
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Copilot for Security is moving from early access to general availability on April 1. Enough to allow all enterprise security teams to benefit from the tool on a pay-per-use basis.
Copilot for Security uses AI to help professionals in their daily tasks. For example, Copilot can:
- Create incident summaries
- Assess the impact of security incidents
- Reverse engineering scripts
- Provide step-by-step guidance for incident response
Standalone product or integrated into Microsoft Entra
“I’m excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Copilot for security. We believe it will help tip the scales in defenders’ favor,” said Vasu Jackal, Microsoft’s vice president of security.
A study conducted by Microsoft assures that 97% of experienced security analysts who used Copilot for security wanted to use it again and that when using Copilot, professionals were 22% faster on common security tasks and 7 % faster with accuracy.
Copilot for Security is available as a stand-alone product or as an integrated experience within one of Microsoft’s existing security products, announces that Microsoft is entering.
Embed multiple prompts with one click
In addition, Microsoft unveiled new tool features, including custom guides, knowledge base integrations, a multilingual interface in 25 languages, the ability to process and respond to prompts in eight languages, use reports, Microsoft Entra audit and diagnostic logs, and the ability to connect on your classified outer attack surface by Defender EASM.
I saw a demonstration of one of the tool’s capabilities, which allows users to create and record a series of natural language prompts for common security tasks. This feature seems valuable to security teams because they can perform repetitive tasks by applying a series of prompts to a task with one click.
Because Copilot for Security will be offered on a paid model, organizations can start small and increase their usage as they see fit. Microsoft plans to bill the cost of the tool monthly through a new Security Compute Unit at a rate of $4 per hour.
However, Forrester analyst Jeff Pollard tempered Microsoft’s enthusiasm. “While it’s unlikely to identify threats that SOC teams wouldn’t see, it makes investigation and response faster,” he says of the product. “The pay as you go model will challenge the already tight budgets of Ciaos and be better suited to organisations that have already invested heavily in Microsoft’s ecosystem of tools and technologies.”