- Microsoft launches new AI agents for cyber security
- Then Copilot-driven agents will help automate the defense process
- Areas such as data security, identity management and phishing could all get a lift
Microsoft is launching new backup milo agents to help secure organizations with AI-first, end-to-end security platforms.
The company says its new agents are designed to “autonomously help with critical areas” such as data security, identity management and phishing.
By working with some of the world’s best software companies, Microsoft hopes to provide “gaming-changing” protection and help customers “scale, increase and increase the efficiency of their privacy operations” to help organizations navigate the increasingly complex trussel landscape and regulatory requirements.
Core problems
Microsoft’s global security manager, Vasu Jakkal, talked to Techradar ProTo discuss how AI is changing the cyber security landscape and how the new initiatives will help defenders use AI to their advantage.
Jakkal noticed how AI SuperCharger the amount of cyber attacks and lowers barriers to access to malicious campaigns, overwhelming security teams that often do not have access to first -class tools and rely on manual processes and ‘fragmented defense’.
“So you look at these three core problems, panty landscape, operational complexity and data security, there is no way people can scale to keep up with these challenges. In fact, we don’t have the human talent in safety right now,” she warns.
To help security teams try to navigate this, Microsoft reveals 11 new copilotagents.
Six of these agents will be available across Microsoft End-to-end Security Platform and are designed to help with threat protection, data security, device management, identity and access and threat information.
The new launches come together with Microsoft’s release of five new Agentic Solutions to help strengthen security teams around the world.
These include a Privacy Breach Response Agent of OneTrust, a network supervisor agent of Aviatrix, a Secops tool agent of Bluevoyant, a Alert triage agent of Tanium, and a Task Optimizer Agent of Fletch.
A helping hand
So that teams can keep up with the rapidly developing landscape, backupilot agents will enable teams to handle high-volume and IT assignments and work smoothly with existing Microsoft security tools.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence now processes 84 trillion signals per Day and reveals the exponential growth in cyber attacks, including 7,000 password attacks per year. Second.
While you ever can’t remove the risk of human error completely, these new tools appear to be a “another pair of eyes and pair of hands” to help double check things to reduce the risk factor, Jakkal explains.
“Last year, in a year, so we 30 billion phishing -e emails. It’s a lot. And this volume, you just can’t keep up, humans can’t triage these. And then the phishing agent can now triage these e emails and alarms, and it can tell you, hey, this is a false alarm, and this is a true alarm, so it kind of reduces it.”
The upper hand
Jakkal describes, like many other cyber security, as a cat and mouse gaming between cyber criminals and security teams.
Right now, the AI striker’s choice of tools and allows for a monumental number of intrusions, but the more attacks are geared, the more defenders can learn.
“Microsoft processes 84 trillion signals every single day. This signal information, it’s hard for humans to just work through it and scan through, but guess what tool works really well with data? AI.”
In order for security teams to get the upper hand, defenders must embrace AI, Jakkal claims, as the talent gap and the lack of skill hold the industry back, and cyber security teams, “just don’t have enough defenders in the world,” so must look to AI to keep up with demand.
Disclosure of attacks doesn’t change soon either. Cyberattacks continue to be a profitable endeavor, and cybercrime even helps to finance rogue nations around the world, and with rising geopolitical tensions, Cyber Security Teams must be more aware than ever before.
“Attacks are happening around, and because ransomware is a very lucrative industry, and in fact the global cybercrime costs us $ 9.2 trillion, US dollars a year,” Jakkal concludes.
“As long as there is money to make in it, we will see attacks and it may be even worse for a small and medium -sized business because they do not have the staff to even tackle these problems.”
