Darktrace vs Microsoft Security Copilot
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Darktrace
Enterprise AI platform for self learning cyber defense that baselines normal behavior to detect and autonomously respond to novel threats across network cloud email and OT.
Microsoft Security Copilot
Microsoft Security Copilot is a generative AI assistant for security teams that helps investigate alerts, summarize incidents and guide response using data from Microsoft security products, with capacity based billing in Security Compute Units so organizations can control usage and spend.
Feature Tags Comparison
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Key Features
Darktrace
- • Self learning behavioral modeling across network cloud email and OT with baselines that adapt to seasonality and business context
- • Autonomous response that interrupts suspicious sessions surgically while preserving legitimate traffic to minimize business disruption
- • End to end visibility that correlates signals across sensors to reconstruct incidents and surface root cause without manual stitching
- • Explainable decisions with analyst friendly context that shows entities timelines and confidence so teams can verify actions quickly
- • Hybrid coverage with sensors and cloud connectors that protect SaaS mail and remote users without deep network redesign
- • Governance friendly operations with audit logs role controls and integrations for SIEM SOAR case systems and MDR partners
Microsoft Security Copilot
- • Incident summarization: Generate concise summaries of security incidents and alerts to speed handoffs and reduce triage time.
- • Promptbooks: Use reusable guided prompt sequences for common tasks like investigation and remediation planning and security reporting.
- • Capacity based billing: Size usage with Security Compute Units and manage spend with provisioned capacity and overage limits.
- • Defender integration: Combine Copilot prompts with Microsoft Defender incident context to accelerate investigation workflows.
- • Sentinel workflows: Support SIEM style investigation by querying and summarizing incident data when using Microsoft Sentinel.
- • Role based use cases: Microsoft publishes role and scenario guidance so teams can map prompts to SOC and IT responsibilities.
Use Cases
Darktrace
- → Stop data exfiltration by throttling unusual transfers during off hours while analysts verify context
- → Contain suspected account takeover by limiting risky actions until users reauthenticate and reset credentials
- → Detect lateral movement by correlating rare service to service authentications across segmentation zones
- → Spot business email compromise by modeling sender behavior and unusual financial requests before funds are moved
- → Protect OT networks by learning normal PLC and HMI patterns then flagging deviations without brittle rules
- → Accelerate incident investigations by replaying correlated timelines that show first cause and affected entities
Microsoft Security Copilot
- → Alert triage: Ask Copilot to summarize what happened across related alerts so analysts can prioritize incidents faster during busy shifts.
- → Incident investigation: Use promptbooks to gather context and identify affected assets and propose next steps for containment.
- → Executive reporting: Turn incident timelines into readable summaries for leadership and compliance without manual rewriting.
- → Threat hunting support: Query security telemetry in natural language to explore indicators and pivot across related activity.
- → Remediation planning: Generate action checklists and validation steps so responders can coordinate fixes across teams and track closure.
- → Shift handover notes: Create consistent handover briefs so the next analyst can continue investigation without losing context.
Perfect For
Darktrace
security leaders blue teams SOC analysts incident responders risk and compliance owners and OT security engineers in mid market and enterprise environments that need adaptive detection and autonomous containment
Microsoft Security Copilot
SOC analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, security engineers, SIEM administrators, CISOs and security managers, compliance teams needing incident summaries, IT ops teams coordinating fixes
Capabilities
Darktrace
Microsoft Security Copilot
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