
Microsoft expands Project Perception to contain anomalous AI agents
New capabilities discover agents, assign identity and permissions, score risk, and can cut off access.
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New capabilities discover agents, assign identity and permissions, score risk, and can cut off access.

Guardian Agents, part of Project Perception, are meant to watch other agents continuously and intervene on harmful actions.

Project Perception now starts agents with minimal access and can isolate or halt high-risk runtimes.

Project Perception will discover agents, isolate runtimes and apply task-scoped permissions outside the model.

Discovery grows to 60 local agent types, and Entra Agent ID can cover agents found only through sensors.

Microsoft previewed an integrated SOC pairing Defender, SIEM, and AI agents for faster response.

Microsoft previews Defender ISOC, an AI-agent security operations platform for machine-speed attacks.
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