detection engineering

Microsoft Defender Security Research on May 12, 2026, described an AI-assisted research pipeline that turns attacker tactics, techniques, procedures, and concrete actions into realistic synthetic security logs for use in detection engineering across Defender-style endpoint, identity, cloud, and...

Microsoft’s new CTI-REALM benchmark is notable because it moves the conversation about AI in cybersecurity away from trivia and toward operational value. Instead of asking whether a model can merely identify a threat technique, the benchmark tests whether an AI agent can read a threat report...

Microsoft’s short and practical walkthrough for turning long, messy threat reports into actionable detection work promises a simple payoff: take days of manual analysis and compress the earliest, most tedious stages into minutes so defenders can get to validation and deployment faster...