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Agents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed.

Microsoft announced Project Perception extensions and Guardian Agents to address insider risks from autonomous agents deployed across enterprises. The approach separates intelligence (supplied by models) from authority (retained by organizations through independent controls), implementing continuous identity management, permission containment, dynamic risk assessment, and adaptive policy enforcement. Guardian Agents automate security response at machine speed while maintaining human oversight over consequential decisions.

Why it matters: Security and IT teams deploying agents at scale need frameworks to govern agent access and behavior; this addresses the operational gap between the speed agents operate and the speed humans can manually respond to threats or drift in agent actions.

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Agents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed.

Microsoft announced Project Perception extensions and Guardian Agents to address insider risks from autonomous agents deployed across enterprises. The approach separates intelligence (supplied by models) from authority (retained by organizations through independent controls), implementing continuous identity management, permission containment, dynamic risk assessment, and adaptive policy enforcement. Guardian Agents automate security response at machine speed while maintaining human oversight over consequential decisions.

Why it matters: Security and IT teams deploying agents at scale need frameworks to govern agent access and behavior; this addresses the operational gap between the speed agents operate and the speed humans can manually respond to threats or drift in agent actions.

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ai security

Agents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed.

Microsoft announced Project Perception extensions and Guardian Agents to address insider risks from autonomous agents deployed across enterprises. The approach separates intelligence (supplied by models) from authority (retained by organizations through independent controls), implementing continuous identity management, permission containment, dynamic risk assessment, and adaptive policy enforcement. Guardian Agents automate security response at machine speed while maintaining human oversight over consequential decisions.

Why it matters: Security and IT teams deploying agents at scale need frameworks to govern agent access and behavior; this addresses the operational gap between the speed agents operate and the speed humans can manually respond to threats or drift in agent actions.

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