Microsoft Copilot for Security: Secure your business today

Microsoft Copilot has become one of the most powerful tools for increasing company productivity at the moment. At a time when cybersecurity is a major concern for businesses, it is also becoming a great ally in preventing and fighting attacks.

Microsoft Copilot for Security emerges as one of these AI-powered options that can help your company keep employees and confidential assets protected. Here’s what it’s all about and how to get it up and running.

Microsoft Copilot for Security is a generative AI-powered security solution that aims to increase the efficiency and capabilities of users to improve security outcomes at greater speed and scale.

It delivers a natural language assistance experience and helps security professionals in end-to-end scenarios such as:

• Incident response
• Threat search
• Intelligence gathering
• Position management

In addition, it offers a standalone experience, yet integrates seamlessly with Microsoft’s security portfolio products such as Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Intune, and other third-party services.

The solution fully utilizes the OpenAI architecture to generate a response to a user prompt by using security-specific add-ons (company-specific information, authoritative sources, global threat intelligence, etc.).

Microsoft’s core language model and proprietary technologies come together in an underlying system that helps increase the effectiveness and capabilities of the other security systems.

When it comes to Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsoft Intune, Copilot integrates seamlessly, allowing prompting functions to be triggered in the context of working within these solutions.

Microsoft add-ins and third-party security products are a means to extend and integrate services with Copilot for Security, providing more context from event logs, alerts, incidents, and policies.

You also have access to threat intelligence and authoritative content through add-ons. These can search MS Defender threat intelligence articles and profiles, threat reports, vulnerability disclosure publications, etc.

Copilot for Security iteratively processes and organizes security services to generate business-relevant results. All in all, MS Copilot for Security works as follows:

• User prompts from security products are sent to Copilot.
• At that point, Copilot for Security preprocesses the incoming prompt using a so-called ‘grounding’ approach, which enhances the specificity of the prompt to help elicit relevant and actionable responses.
• It then accesses the preprocessing plug-ins and sends the modified request to the model.
• It takes the response from the model and processes it, including accessing plug-ins for contextualized information.
• Copilot returns the response, so the user can review and evaluate the response.

Copilot for Safety is particularly useful in the following use cases:

Before implementing Copilot for security, some minimum requirements or the configuration of a default environment must be considered.

The minimum requirements you need to have in place are:

• You must have an Azure subscription.
• Copilot for Security is sold in a provisioned capacity model, where security processing units (SCUs) can be provisioned and scaled up or down at any time.
• Capacity in the context of Copilot for Security is an Azure resource containing SCUs, where a usage monitoring dashboard is provided for Copilot owners. This allows you to track usage over time and make informed decisions about capacity provisioning.

The Plain Concepts security team is ready to help you implement Copilot for Security into your enterprise security strategy, covering information protection, unified data governance, intelligent lifecycle management, internal risk management, auditing, compliance management, and NIS2. Don’t wait any longer, and contact our experts and transform the way you work securely!