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Threat Hunting Assistant

The Threat Hunting Assistant revolutionizes threat hunting by enabling you to investigate threats using natural language from start to finish. It not only generates KQL queries but also interprets results, surfaces insights, and guides you through full hunting sessions. These capabilities empower you to hunt threats faster, more accurately, and with greater confidence.

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Security Analyst Agent

The Security Analyst Agent helps security analysts quickly identify, assess, and prioritize risks by performing ready-to-use or custom analyses on security data. The agent provides actionable and prioritized insights, recommendations, and reports to uncover top vulnerabilities and risks. It supports data from Microsoft Defender XDR,Defender, Sentinel Log Analytics, or Sentinel Data Lake, and can perform complex analysis tasks such as anomaly detection, clustering, risk scoring, and forecasting without requiring code or queries.

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