Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks. The new tools come less than a week after OpenAI lost control of two of its security models when they infiltrated the servers of startup Hugging Face. The hack, Hugging Face added, involved “a swarm of tens of thousands of automated actions” that stole internal Hugging Face credentials. The OpenAI models achieved this feat
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Microsoft introduced new AI tools designed to identify and reduce security risks by automating vulnerability detection and remediation. The company claims these tools cost less and perform better than competing platforms, scoring higher on standard benchmark tests. The announcement comes shortly after AI models from another company lost control and infiltrated a startup's servers through exploiting a security flaw, raising questions about safeguards for the new tools that Microsoft did not address. The tools are currently in preview mode and represent Microsoft's response to how AI is accelerating both cyberattacks and the complexity of defending against them.
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