Professor Kim Leads New Cybersecurity Initiative at Microsoft

Microsoft has unveiled Project Perception , a new enterprise AI service that helps cybersecurity teams continuously assess and improve their defense posture. The service will be available in public preview starting August 3 and is based on a multi-model architecture , where the system selects the most appropriate AI model for each task, achieving a better balance between performance and cost.

The company also announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a new AI model specifically designed to find vulnerabilities in complex codebases. Combined with GPT-5.4 through MDASH, Microsoft’s internal vulnerability research system, it achieved a 96% score on the CyberGym benchmark, outperforming Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6-Sol, at nearly half the computational cost.

MDASH was developed by the new FORGE (Frontier Offensive Research & Generative Exploration), led by Georgia Techprofessor Taesoo Kim. The group includes former members of Team Atlanta, which won the DARPA AI Cyber ​​Challenge (AIxCC) to develop autonomous AI systems that detect and fix vulnerabilities in critical open source software.