Chatbot interface for network security software application

A computing device for executing security functions, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing, a chatbot interface and a security application;
• a processor, coupled to a network, for loading and executing the chatbot interface and the security application from the non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• an input device for receiving a text utterance from a user or a voice utterance from a user;
• wherein the chatbot interface comprises a set of instructions for causing the processor to perform the following steps:
• receive a text utterance from the input device or from a speech-to-text engine that receives a voice utterance from the input device;
• perform named entity recognition on the text utterance using a natural language library to identify one or more entities in the text utterance;
• perform intent classification to determine an intent of the text utterance;
• and
• instruct the security application to perform an action based on the intent and the one or more entities.