Microsoft is introducing new chat applications that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help cybersecurity teams thwart assaults and avert intrusions. They are a part of the most recent wave of AI software releases from Microsoft and go by the name Copilots. The most recent version of Copilot uses data specific to security to find links between hacking components more quickly, as well as OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4 language system. It can, for instance, be used to find connections between a questionable email, a malicious software file, or the vulnerable areas of a system. The Security Copilot depends on data from governmental agencies and Microsoft experts who keep an eye on nation-states and cybercriminal organisations.

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Security operations teams have a data management problem: The volume of security alerts they have to process is so high they can miss signs of an attack. In the first Voice of SecOps report from security vendor Deep Instinct, 86% of respondents said tools driven by data science -- which includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning -- would make a significant impact in preventing unknown threats and reducing false positives. Above: 90% of in the 2021 Voice of SecOps report said automation frees up teams to focus on high-value and more strategic tasks.

Researchers from MIT and machine learning startup PatternEx combined machine learning algorithms-based systems and human expertise in new cybersecurity AI platform AI2. This innovation is said to detect cyberattacks 85 percent of the time. Cybersecurity today is executed by either humans or machines, which could have their own challenges – missed attacks because the parameters don't match rules set by human experts, or systems mistakenly zeroing in on non-threats. So why not combine humans and AI to get the best of both worlds? This is what researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accomplished with its new artificial intelligence system called AI2.