Nokia integrates GenAI assistant with NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome to enhance cyber defense

Nokia has announced the integration of its NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome with telco-centric GenAI assistant to help customers more quickly detect and eliminate cyber threats.

The new Telco GenAI assistant, based on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, will be commercially available from the second quarter of 2024. Nokia said that its customers will start testing the integrated solution in the coming weeks.

"Combining Nokia's NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome with the telco-centric GenAI assistant gives communication service providers and enterprises significantly more agility in mitigating destructive cybersecurity attacks on their mission-critical operations," said Fran Heeran, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Product and Engineering, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia.

Nokia's NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome is a 5G cybersecurity orchestration and threat incident response software suite to detect, analyze, and mitigate telco security risks faster. The new Telco GenAI assistant will further strengthen Cybersecurity Dome's protection efficiency by quickly combining and interpreting vast amounts of information related to cyber threats.

Nokia anticipates that the GenAI assistant will cut the time required to detect and address a threat by as much as 50 percent, depending on the type of cyberattack. This expectation involves reducing false positives, leading to more accurate and efficient cybersecurity event management.

"Microsoft's leading Azure cloud and AI capabilities deliver massive efficiency gains for the most vital security use cases, so we are thrilled to combine forces with Nokia to enable this new and important GenAI assistant for NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome. We believe the joint solution will have a significant impact on the security capabilities of communication service providers and their customers," Silvia Candiani, Vice President Telco and Media at Microsoft.  

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