Microsoft is launching its Copilot for Security next month, it will bring its generative ai chatbot to the cybersecurity space. Copilot for Security is designed for cybersecurity professionals to help protect against threats, but it won't be a one-time monthly charge like Copilot for Microsoft 365. Instead, Microsoft will charge businesses $4 per hour of use as part of a model of consumption. when Copilot for Security launches on April 1.
Powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and Microsoft's own specific security model, Copilot for Security is essentially a chatbot where cybersecurity workers can get the latest information on security incidents, threat summaries, and more. Microsoft began testing this chatbot almost a year ago and it includes access to the latest security threat information and the 78 trillion daily Microsoft signals that the company collects through its threat intelligence collection.
Copilot for Security includes a bulletin board section for collaboration between cybersecurity employees and the ability to summarize events for reporting purposes. Like many other ai chatbots, you can use natural language input, input files for analysis, or even have Copilot for Security analyze your code. All indications are saved in a historical log for auditing at a later date.
Pay-as-you-go pricing is designed to allow businesses to scale what they need for ai-powered cybersecurity efforts. “We will have a simple pricing model that covers both the standalone Copilot experience and integrated experiences across the entire Microsoft Security product portfolio,” Microsoft says. “A consumption model means it will be easy to get started quickly and on a small scale, experiment and learn without upfront per-device or per-user charges.”
Microsoft's push for ai in cybersecurity comes at a time when the company is under attack by Russian state-sponsored hackers. Nobelium, the same group behind the SolarWinds attack, managed to spy on the email inboxes of some Microsoft executives for months. That initial attack also led to the theft of some of Microsoft's source code, with hackers gaining access to the company's source code repositories and internal systems.
