- Microsoft launches new AI agents for cybersecurity
- Agents fed by Copilot Thewew will help automate the defense process
- Areas such as data security, identity management and phishing could all get a boost
Microsoft is launching new safety co-pilot agents to help secure organizations with safety platforms from end to end.
The company claims that its new agents are designed to “help independently with critical fields” such as data security, identity management and phishing.
By working with some of the main software companies in the world, Microsoft hopes to provide “revolutionary” protections and help customers “increase, increase and increase the efficiency of their confidentiality operations” to help organizations to navigate in increasingly complex landscape and regulation requirements.
Basic problems
Microsoft World Security Manager, Vasu Jakkal, spoke to Techradar ProTo discuss how AI modifies the cybersecurity landscape, and how new initiatives will help defenders use AI to their advantage.
Jakkal noted how AA overallimates the volume of cyber attacks and reduces obstacles to access to malicious campaigns, overwhelming security teams that often do not have access to first -rate tools and rely on manual processes and “ fragmented defenses ”.
“So you look at these three fundamental problems, the landscape of threats, operational complexity and data security, there is no way that humans can evolve to meet these challenges. In fact, we do not have the human talent safe at the moment, ”she warns.
To help the security teams try to navigate this subject, Microsoft unveils 11 new co -pilot agents.
Six of these agents will be available on the Microsoft end-to-end security platform, and are designed to help threat protection, data security, apparatus management, identity and access and threat information.
The new launches arise next to the release by Microsoft of five new agent solutions to help strengthen the security teams worldwide.
These include a response agent to the violation of confidentiality by ONETRUST, a network supervisor by Aviatrix, a Bluevoyant secops tool agent, a Tanium alert alert triage agent, as well as a task optimizer agent by Fletch.
A helping hand
In order for the teams to follow the landscape quickly evolving, the security co -pilot agents will allow teams to manage high security and IT tasks, and will work perfectly alongside existing Microsoft security tools.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence now deals with 84 billions of signals per day, revealing the exponential growth of cyber attacks, including 7,000 password attacks per second.
Although you can never completely eliminate the risk of human error, these new tools seem to be “another pair of eyes and hands” to help check things to reduce the risk factor, “explains Jakkal.
“Last year, in one year, we saw 30 billion phishing emails. It’s a lot. And this volume, you cannot follow, humans cannot sorter them.
The top
Jakkal, like many others, describes cybersecurity as a cat and mouse game between cybercriminals and security teams.
Currently, AI is the tool of choice of the attacker and allows a monumental number of intrusions, but the more the attacks are exploited, the more the defenders can learn.
“Microsoft treats 84 signs every day.
In order for the security teams to gain the upper hand, the defenders must adopt AI, supports Jakkal, because the shortage of gap and skills of talent holds the industry, and the cybersecurity teams, “simply do not have enough defenders in the world”, it is therefore necessary to turn to AI to meet demand.
The attack dam is not likely changed anytime soon. Cyberattacks continue to be a profitable business, and cybercrime even helps finance thug nations around the world, and with increasing geopolitical tensions, cybersecurity teams must be more alert than ever.
“The attacks occur all around and because ransomware is a very lucrative industry and makes it the world cybercrime costs us 9.2 billions of dollars, American dollars per year,” concludes Jakkal.
“So, as long as there is money to make, we will see attacks and it can be even worse for a small business because they do not have the staff to tackle these problems.”
