--- title: Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a... description: Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, alongside a new agentic security platform called Perception.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-launches-its-first-cybersecurity-model-plus-a-new-agentic-cybersecurity-system-ia0tyvpjz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, alongside a new agentic security platform called Perception.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-launches-its-first-cybersecurity-model-plus-a-new-agentic-cybersecurity-system-ia0tyvpjz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iA0tYVpjz.png og:image:alt: Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, alongside a new agentic security platform called Perception. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash is designed to find vulnerabilities in complex codebases and powers MDASH, Microsoft's software vulnerability identification harness. Perception deploys teams of AI agents — red, blue, and green — to simulate attacks, detect bugs, and apply fixes, compressing hours of manual security work into minutes. Microsoft claims MAI-Cyber-1-Flash outperforms competing models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on the Cyber Gym benchmark. Both tools will enter preview on November 3, competing with Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Day Break security offerings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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