{"id":51413,"date":"2023-04-11T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3692917\/cohesity-aims-an-openai-powered-chatbot-to-secure-your-data-sets.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-04-11T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:09:00","slug":"cohesity-aims-an-openai-powered-chatbot-to-secure-your-data-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/cohesity-aims-an-openai-powered-chatbot-to-secure-your-data-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohesity aims an OpenAI-powered chatbot to secure your data sets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Data backup and management company Cohesity today announced plans to offer an Azure OpenAI<\/a>-backed chatbot as both a security analysis tool and line-of-business assistant, along with tighter integration with Active Directory<\/a>,  Sentinel<\/a> and Purview<\/a>, as part of an expanded partnership with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

The chatbot is designed to help with both rapid security analysis and business end-user tasks. In a demonstration given the day before the announcement, Cohesity senior director of systems engineering Greg Statton showed off the former use case by showing a security console with some potential irregularities displayed. Using natural language queries, the system was able to identify users accessing backup systems from unusual IP addresses, as well as describe anomalous behavior in log data.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we all know, ransomware is not only going after your data, but then it\u2019s immediately trying to attack that backup,\u201d Statton said. \u201cAnd so I thought it\u2019d be really interesting to take that live log stream data of who\u2019s accessing the backup system and what it is they\u2019re doing, and synthesize it into a very crisp executive summary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea is that the AI system, which is powered by the Azure OpenAI generative AI<\/a> fearure set, uses the provided SIEM<\/a> information as its main data set. It\u2019s similar to the line-of-business functionality that Statton subsequently demoed, giving the example of a law firm using the AI to search through previous cases for those involving particular types of clients or legal issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this generative AI hook, I can find out exactly what files [I need] within Cohesity,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it\u2019s actually going into that data that\u2019s been highly indexed, grabbing those key paragraphs that match my question.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actual provision of these features to the end user, in the security instance, will be done through Microsoft \u2014 the company announced that its DataProtect backup-as-a-service offering will now integrate with Microsoft’s Sentinel SIEM package for quicker reaction to ransomware alerts and incident tracking. Similarly, Cohesity\u2019s data classification platform will tie into Microsoft’s Purview compliance portal for data privacy and discovery.<\/p>\n