AI to tackle cybersecurity: Rubrik and Microsoft deepen collaborations

The companies say the integration will empower security and IT teams to streamline incident creation and accelerate cyber recovery

Accelerating cyber recovery through generative AI and natural language processing (NLP) is the aim of a joint collaboration between zero-trust security vendor Rubrik, Microsoft and Azure OpenAI.

This integration is hoped to offer a "truly actionable use of AI" to reduce the time required to investigate and determine responses to cyber events, ultimately providing an overall boost in cyber resilience.

According to a new Rubrik Zero Labs report on the state of data security only 56 per cent of IT and security leaders reported developing or reviewing an incident response plan in 2022.

Furthermore, security operations centre (SOC) and incident response teams are inundated with thousands of alerts each day, and it can take hours to sort through and prioritise responses.

The report underlines that these challenges reflect the need for a modern solution that can not only help SOC teams investigate the most pressing cyber events, but provide guidance on how to remediate.

"In a time when bad actors are becoming increasingly inventive, organisations must lean on AI to turn the tables on attackers," said Charlie Bell, executive vice president of security, compliance, identity, and management at Microsoft.

"Working with Rubrik establishes a counterpoint to the modern threats that our customers are facing and allows organisations to react to incidents more quickly.

"Through the speed of AI, we believe security defenders will be able to identify and stop attacks faster than ever before."

The project aims to use Rubrik's "ability to provide time series data insights directly into Microsoft Sentinel" to enable organisations to address evolving cyber threats and safeguard their most sensitive information.

The platform is designed to automatically create a recommended task workstream in Microsoft Sentinel created by Rubrik by leveraging large language models and generative AI through OpenAI.

The companies say the integration will empower security and IT teams to streamline incident creation, automate recommended task workstream and accelerate cyber recovery.

Bipul Sinha, CEO and co-founder of Rubrik added: "The explosion of generative AI will catapult us into a new age of cyberattacks - attacks that go far beyond human comprehension."

"We must fight fire with fire and use generative AI to not only understand future cyber events but to also prevent and defend against them."

"We're thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft and continue to build upon our progressive and long-standing partnership.

"This is an important step forward as we continue our mission of securing the world's data and helping businesses achieve cyber resilience."

Thee announcement follows Rubrik's initial integration with Microsoft Sentinel unveiled in October 2022.