Microsoft will make Copilot for Security available to customers starting April 1, 2024. This AI assistant is primarily intended to protect companies. Administrators and security teams can use it to keep out and analyze threats. While other versions of this AI chatbot, such as the Copilot for MS Office, are billed based on the number of users and month, the Copilot for Security pricing model is based on usage (pay-as-you-go): the artificial intelligence is paid by the hour.
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Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft made the AI Copilot for Security available, but initially only as a “private preview” for a small group of customers. Next month, all Microsoft business customers will be able to book the AI assistant for their purposes. The Copilot “combines Microsoft's extensive threat data with industry-leading expertise to better understand the overall threat landscape.” It can learn, “correlate threat activity” and make “decisions at machine speed.”
AI chatbot specifically for security questions
Even in the area of security, the Copilot is a kind of AI assistant, as it was announced for all Microsoft 365 applications and Teams. Like all co-pilots, he can be reached via a prompt bar in natural language. In this chat window you can ask very roughly about a current threat situation. You also receive instructions in natural language. You can also insert documents and code snippets there and have them examined. According to Microsoft, no data will be passed on: “Your data remains your data.” The connection to the outside world is created, among other things, by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Database.
The assistant learns using all the data available to it. Prompts, i.e. inputs, can be saved so that they can be used again and again. They appear in a prompt book. A pinboard can be used to pin information that all team members should read or that might be of interest later. Since Microsoft knows that Security Copilot will also make mistakes, a feedback button is integrated directly. The copilot for security can also reverse engineer, understands 25 languages and can respond in eight different languages, explains Microsoft.
Positive experience from preview, $4 per hour
According to experiences from the private preview phase, experienced security experts were able to complete their analyzes 22 percent faster with Copilot for Security and were seven percent more accurate when working with the AI assistant. Finally, 97 percent of all IT security experts stated that they would use Copilot again for the same tasks.
German is one of the languages that the security copilot not only understands, but in which he can also respond, writes Microsoft in a separate blog post. The price is also mentioned there. Accordingly, you will be charged $4 per hour to use the AI security assistant, which will be billed monthly. There are no restrictions on the number of users or devices. So practically any number of users could communicate with the security copilot on different devices within an hour and only be billed for this hour.
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