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ZDNET's key takeaways
AI has created new cybersecurity threats as well as solutions.
Sentinel is now able to respond to threats more autonomously.
Microsoft is capitalizing on the industry's period of transition.
The rise of AI is reshaping cybersecurity, presenting both new threats and new tools for mitigating them. Microsoft has been seizing this moment of transformation, aiming to become cybersecurity teams' go-to resource in the burgeoning AI era.
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In its latest step toward that goal, the tech giant announced Tuesday that it has upgraded Sentinel -- a Security Management and Events Incidents (SIEM) platform designed to help cybersecurity professionals track and respond to threats. The platform is now more agentic, or capable of taking action autonomously without meticulous human oversight.
The upgrades (and what they do)
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