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“Using Mythos in Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle could help strengthen and harden products like Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365, and developer tools,” Shah said. “Every enterprise running those products could benefit from the security improvement without needing direct Mythos access themselves.”
Prabhu noted that Microsoft said it had evaluated Mythos using its open-source benchmark for real-world detection engineering tasks, with results showing substantial improvements over prior models.
“Such a claim coming from Microsoft does suggest that these new AI models are becoming materially better at identifying exploitable flaws than earlier generations,” Prabhu added. “However, as with any AI tool, the strength of the tool lies in its ability to analyze code quickly based on past learning. There is a possibility that it could miss new types of vulnerabilities that only a ‘human-in-the-loop’ could identify.”
