JapanHealthcare and life sciences2024 – ongoing

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma

Azure OpenAI for security alert translation and summary

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma cuts security incident checks from 10 minutes to 1 minute

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Problem

Alerts from Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Sentinel arrive in English. Staff spent about 10 minutes checking each incident.

Approach

The company added Azure OpenAI Service to security operations. It translates alerts into Japanese, summarizes them, and explains why each recommendation matters and what risk follows if ignored.

Results

10 min to 1 mintime to check one security incidentVendor's case study[1]

about 550 hourswork time saved per year at about 10 incidents a dayVendor's case study[1]

Takeaway

The small team saved time by translating and summarising security alerts. At about 10 incidents a day, the company counts about 550 hours saved a year.

Sources

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma customer story
Microsoft1 May 2024Vendor publication

Source summaries

[1]Microsoft1 May 2024

Microsoft described how the drugmaker uses Azure OpenAI to translate and explain English security alerts in Japanese. It reported per-incident time and annual hours saved.

Full details are in the original sources.

Added 25 Oct 2026 · Updated 25 Oct 2026