Microsoft announces security AI agents to help overwhelmed humans
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Summary
Microsoft has unveiled six AI agents that it has developed to help overwhelmed security teams, alongside five others crafted by partners including OneTrust, Aviatrix and BlueVoyant.
These AI agents will help automate high-volume security and IT tasks, such as triaging phishing and data loss alerts, prioritising incidents and identifying vulnerabilities.
Microsoft has also improved phishing protection in Microsoft Teams, with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 set to protect users from phishing attempts and malicious URLs and attachments within the platform next month.
AI agents are being used increasingly by companies such as Microsoft to tempt businesses into using their AI tools, with Microsoft relaunching Microsoft Copilot for businesses this year with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go AI agents.