Security News > 2024 > March > Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff

Microsoft Copilot for Security, a subscription AI security service, will be generally available on April 1, 2024, the company announced on Wednesday.

Based on GPT-4 and a Microsoft security-specific model, Copilot for Security takes input from people or scripts, passes the text through an orchestrator layer, a context layer, and possibly application plugins, then returns a response from the underlying AI model.

Copilot for Security was initially conceived for security operations and threat protection tasks, Jakkal explained, like threat investigation, reverse engineering malware, incident reporting, and guided incident response plans.

According to Microsoft's own research [PDF] into Microsoft XDR, those using the security service with help from Copilot for Security finished tasks 22 percent faster on average than those without AI help.

Rui Correia, security operations center manager for Signode in Switzerland, told The Register that his firm has been using Copilot for Security since November for tasks like malware analysis, incident response, and alert investigations.

The latest iteration of Copilot for Security includes: support for custom promptbooks, which allow customers to craft and save their own prompts for common tasks; company-specific knowledge base integrations; support for prompts and responses in eight languages, with 25 languages via the standalone interface; third-party integration with partner services; and usage reporting that shows how teams are using Copilot.

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