Trend Micro is launching a generative AI tool called Companion to help SOC teams respond to incidents faster.

Generative AI is slowly entering the cybersecurity space. Security vendor Trend Micro introduces Companion, a ChatGPT-like chatbot built on GPT-3.5 and trained to answer questions about security incidents. The tool will be added to the also newly announced Vision One XDR platform.

The use of AI in a SOC is not new. Artificial intelligence is already being used to monitor all endpoints overseen by the security team and analyze initial events. Trend Micro Companion goes one step further, COO Kevin Simzer tells Venture Beat. “Working in an SOC is often stressful as you are inundated with telemetry data from various sources. Companion enables SOC teams to identify threats more effectively.”

Among other things, the AI ​​tool can tell you in natural language what exactly is going on. In addition, it can also decode tracker scripts and provide recommendations to contain the breach. The reporting of the incident after the intervention can also be automated. Companion’s overall goal is to speed up incident investigation.

AI as a security tool

Trend Micro Companion isn’t the first of its kind: in early June, we were introduced to Charlotte, Crowdstrike’s AI bot. Charlotte AI is also designed to help security teams identify vulnerabilities in IT systems and intervene more quickly when something threatens to go wrong. But like any security vendor, Trend Micro prides itself on the fact that its solution is the most comprehensive on the market.