AI is so hot right now, and the cybersecurity space is no exception. Technology leaders are unveiling exciting new capabilities, vendors are making extravagant claims, and practitioners are working hard to understand how to separate the wheat from the chaff, leveraging AI where it can make the most difference to their operations’ and their organization’s risk.
Here at GreyNoise, we’ve been investigating where AI capabilities can have the biggest impact, and then working to deploy them internally, externally, and in partnership with other security vendors. In this blog we’ll discuss several GreyNoise AI projects and how they’re helping defenders identify and understand threats and secure their environment.
Sift: AI for Anomaly Discovery
Traditional automation is rule-based and rigid. “IF a packet matches this malware signature, THEN block it AND generate an alert”, etc. AI-based approaches are different. AI makes it possible to automate pattern recognition—and its inverse, anomaly discovery. With AI, defenders can rapidly process high volumes of data, and automatically identify the most suspicious observations for high-priority analysis and triage.
Sift is GreyNoise’s tool for solving this problem. It leverages multiple advanced AI techniques, including:
- custom-built LLMs (Large Language Models)
- nearest neighbor search and vector databases
- unsupervised clustering
Sift runs daily, helping our research team process the data generated by our global sensor fleet to identify novel behavior, traffic, and attacks.
For more on Sift and how it works, check out our technical launch blog here.
Sift: AI for Targeted Attack Identification
But Sift doesn’t stop there. The same techniques can be applied to the data generated by targeted subsets of our sensors, helping specific organizations generate intelligence insights and reports tailored to observations from their own networks. This AI application will bring the industry-leading research capabilities of GreyNoise into any organization’s internal security processes, reducing triage overhead, accelerating attack identification, and making life easier for defenders—and harder for attackers.
For more on how to bring the insights of Sift into your own organization, talk to our team.
Copilot: AI for Interpretation
The capabilities of AI aren’t limited to stochastic data analysis. Recent advances in transformer architectures and LLMs have cracked the natural language barrier, making it possible to generate well-formulated utterances at scale. This has opened up a new frontier of AI assistants. Microsoft Copilot for Security is leading the charge to bring these capabilities into the cybersecurity space, and GreyNoise is working together with Microsoft on this initiative. We’re a partner in the Microsoft Copilot for Security Partner Private Preview, and our plug-in means that both free and enterprise users can access GreyNoise insights from within their Copilot interface with natural language prompts.
For more on how GreyNoise and Microsoft Copilot for Security work together, check out our dedicated integration page.
The Future of AI
The future of AI is hard to predict, and the evolution of the field has famously surprised both boosters and skeptics. Organizations looking to leverage these rapidly transforming capabilities will need to roll with the punches—and continue to partner with security vendors who can do the same. Here at GreyNoise we’re committed to doing just that. We’re excited to share how AI is already empowering our security—and we can’t wait to see what’s next.
