Microsoft Copilot for Security, a new (and industry-first) generative AI solution that can help security and IT professionals with their job by producing summaries of suspicious incidents, tracking hackers, and more, will be available worldwide from April 1, 2024, Microsoft has announced. This version of Copilot leverages large-scale data and threat intelligence, which, according to Microsoft, includes “more than 78 trillion security signals” processed each day.
Features include:
- Custom promptbooks allow customers to create and save their own series of natural language prompts for common security workstreams and tasks.
- Knowledgebase integrations, in preview, empowers you to integrate Copilot for Security with your business logic and perform activities based on your own step-by-step guides.
- Multi-language support now allows Copilot to process prompts and respond in eight different languages with 25 languages supported in the interface.
- Third-party integrations from global partners who are actively developing integrations and services.
- Connect to your curated external attack surface from Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management to identify and analyze the most up-to-date information on your organization’s external attack surface risks.
- Microsoft Entra audit logs and diagnostic logs give additional insight for a security investigation or IT issue analysis of audit logs related to a specific user or event, summarized in natural language.
- Usage reporting provides dashboard insights on how your teams use Copilot so that you can identify even more opportunities for optimization.
An economic study that Microsoft hosted found:
- Experienced security analysts were 22% faster with Copilot.
- They were 7% more accurate across all tasks when using Copilot.
- And, most notably, 97% said they want to use Copilot the next time they do the same task.
Microsoft is also introducing a new licensing model:
Microsoft is…introducing a provisioned pay-as-you-go licensing model that makes Copilot for Security accessible to a wider range of organizations than any other solution on the market. With this flexible, consumption-based pricing model, you can get started quickly, then scale your usage and costs according to your needs and budget. Microsoft Copilot for Security will be available for purchase starting April 1, 2024.