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Security · Updated 20 Oct, 03:34 am IST

Microsoft adds Guardian Agents to monitor risky AI agents in enterprises

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Why it matters for readers: It matters because AI agents can behave unexpectedly, and companies are now treating them like potential insider threats.

  • Microsoft launched Guardian Agents as a new feature to monitor AI agents used by enterprises.1
  • Guardian Agents is part of Project Perception, a product Microsoft introduced in June that simulated attacker, defender, and fixer agent roles.1
  • Microsoft frames some agent risks as similar to insider threats and has warned enterprises to stop trusting model providers' safety assurances.1
  • Project Perception was created in response to powerful hacking models like Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable and OpenAI’s Daybreak.1

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