Microsoft introduces AI-powered cybersecurity assistant

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Tuesday launched a tool to help cybersecurity professionals identify breaches, threat signals  and better analyze data, using OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 generative artificial intelligence model. 

The tool, named ’Security Copilot’, is a simple prompt box that will help security analysts with tasks like summarizing incidents, analyzing vulnerabilities and sharing information with co-workers on a pinboard.

The assistant will use Microsoft’s security-specific model, which the company described as "a growing set of security-specific skills" that is fed with more than 65 trillion signals every day. 

The launch comes amid a flurry of announcements from Microsoft to integrate the AI into its most popular offerings. 

The company has sought to outpace peers through multi-billion dollar investments in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, which recently released GPT-4 to perform a range of tasks from creating a real website through a hand-drawn mock up to helping individuals calculate their taxes.

(Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)