Tanium Boosts Microsoft Security Copilot with AI Triage & Identity Insights
▼ Summary
– Tanium has released two new AI agents for Microsoft Security Copilot: Tanium Security Triage Agent and Tanium Security Triage Agent with Identity Insights.
– These agents integrate Tanium’s real-time endpoint intelligence with Microsoft’s AI to help security analysts investigate and respond to threats quickly and precisely.
– Microsoft Security Copilot is an AI-powered security tool that uses a large language model and security-specific model informed by global threat intelligence and trillions of daily signals.
– Agents in Security Copilot autonomously handle security tasks, integrate with Microsoft and partner solutions, and operate securely within Microsoft’s Zero-Trust framework.
– The Tanium agents autonomously investigate alerts by collecting endpoint data, analyzing context including identity information, and recommending next steps for faster decision-making.
Tanium has officially launched its new Tanium Security Triage Agent and an enhanced version with Identity Insights for integration into Microsoft Security Copilot. This development marks a significant step forward for security teams aiming to improve their threat investigation and response workflows. By merging Tanium’s deep endpoint visibility with Microsoft’s AI-driven security platform, the solution enables analysts to handle alerts with greater speed and precision.
According to Dan Varga, VP of Engineering at Tanium, “Agentic AI is revolutionizing how security operations teams prioritize and act on threats. Our partnership with Microsoft has allowed us to introduce a new category of AI-powered tools within Microsoft Security Copilot. These Tanium agents bring real-time endpoint intelligence together with Microsoft’s AI, giving security professionals the confidence to investigate and respond effectively.”
Microsoft Security Copilot itself is an AI-based security system designed to help professionals react swiftly to threats, process enormous volumes of signals, and evaluate risk in minutes. It leverages a sophisticated large language model alongside a specialized security model, drawing insights from Microsoft’s global threat intelligence and processing trillions of daily signals.
Within Security Copilot, agents operate autonomously to handle large-scale security and IT tasks, integrating smoothly with Microsoft’s own security products as well as partner offerings. These purpose-built agents learn from user feedback, adapt to organizational processes, and function securely under Microsoft’s Zero-Trust architecture.
Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Security, emphasized the collaborative advantage, stating, “AI acts as a force multiplier for defenders. When partners like Tanium contribute their agentic innovations to the Security Copilot ecosystem, the overall impact grows exponentially. We’re not just developing tools, we’re ushering in a new age of intelligent, cooperative cyber defense.”
The Tanium agents are specifically engineered to streamline and speed up alert triage for security operations centers. Operating within Security Copilot’s agentic AI framework, they autonomously investigate alerts generated by Tanium Threat Response. They gather endpoint artifacts, analyze contextual data, including identity details sourced from the Microsoft Sentinel data lake and Microsoft Entra ID, and propose actionable next steps. This empowers security analysts to make quicker, better-informed decisions, reinforcing an organization’s overall security posture.
(Source: HelpNet Security)
