Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
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Microsoft launched its first cybersecurity AI model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, designed to find vulnerabilities in codebases, and a new platform called Perception that uses teams of AI agents to automate security workflows. The company claims the model outperforms competitors like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on cybersecurity benchmarks and is being shipped immediately. Microsoft executives emphasized that the tools help defenders counter AI-driven cyberattacks at scale.