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.

What is Microsoft Copilot for Security?

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 Copilot for security Capacities

• Custom Promptbooks: allows you to create and save your own prompts in natural language in the performance of common security tasks and workflows.
• Multilingual support: allows you to respond in multiple languages and support numerous languages in its interface.
• Third-party integrations: can be adapted to programmes within the ecosystem of each case, facilitating efficiency in a variety of situations.
• Usage reporting: provides insight into how your teams are using Copilot, so you can identify further optimisation opportunities.
• Specific security model: learns from each performance and feedback, allowing you to improve your capabilities for the next threat.

How does Microsoft Copilot for Security work?

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.

Microsoft Copilot for Security: Use Cases

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

Incident summary

The tool provides context for incidents and improves communication across the organization thanks to generative AI, which allows complex security alerts to be quickly extracted into concise, actionable summaries. This results in faster response times and simplified decision-making.

Impact analysis

Coupling analytics with AI makes it possible to assess the potential impact of security incidents, providing insights into affected systems and data to prioritize response efforts effectively.

This helps incident responders stop large-scale attacks in their tracks.

Reverse engineering of scripts

It eliminates the need to manually reverse engineer malware and allows analysts to understand the actions executed by attackers.

It also makes it easier to analyze complex command-line scripts and translate them into natural language with clear explanations of the actions. Indicators found in the script can then be efficiently extracted and linked to the respective entities in the environment.

Guided responses

Copilot provides practical, step-by-step guidance for incident response, including instructions for priority assessment, investigation, containment, and remediation.

In-depth links relevant to the recommended actions result in a faster response.

Incorporating Copilot for Security

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.

Steps to follow

The incorporation of this service is a two-step process:

1. Provisioning the capability
2. Configure the default development environment

Step 1:Provisioning capacity

To perform this step, two options can be chosen:

1. Capacity provisioning through Copilot for Security (recommended):Log in to Copilot for Security.Select ‘Get Started’.Configure the security capability: select the Azure subscription, associate the capability to a resource group, add a name to the capability, select the message evaluation location, and specify the SKU number. Confirm the terms and click ‘Confirm’After creating the capability, the Azure resource will take a few minutes to deploy to the back-end.
2. Capacity provisioning in Azure:Log in to the Azure Portal.Find Copilot for Security in the list of services and select it.Select ‘Resource Groups’.Under ‘Plan’, select ‘Microsoft Copilot for Security’, and ‘Create’.Select a subscription and a resource group, add a name to the capability, select the evaluation location, and select the SCU number. Confirm the terms and conditions and select ‘Review and create’.Check that all information is correct and click ‘Create’,Select ‘Finalise configuration on the Copilot for Security portal’.

Step 2: Configuring the development environment

To access this step, you must be an Azure owner or partner:

1. Associate your capability to the Copilot for Security environment if the capability was created in the Azure Portal.
2. You will be informed where the customer data will be stored and click ‘Continue’.
3. You will then be informed about access to data from Microsoft 365 services and click ‘Continue’ again.
4. Select from the data sharing options and again click ‘Continue’.
5. You will be informed about the default roles that can access Copilot for Security.
6. A confirmation page will be displayed and it will be time to select ‘Finish’.

Microsoft Copilot for Security Partner

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.