"AI agents are now running on employee devices, cloud platforms, and across developer workflows. Security teams need to see those agents, govern what they can reach, and contain them when something goes wrong. This month’s updates help you discover and control local AI agents, extend Zero Trust to agent traffic, and strengthen the security operations center (SOC) foundations that AI-era operations..."
Recommended Defense & Mitigation
Threat Monitoring: Ingest published IOCs into SIEM/EDR detection rules for continuous telemetry monitoring.
Security Awareness: Alert staff and maintain baseline endpoint hardening across endpoints.
AI agents are now running on employee devices, cloud platforms, and across developer workflows. Security teams need to see those agents, govern what they can reach, and contain them when something goes wrong. This month’s updates help you discover and control local AI agents, extend Zero Trust to agent traffic, and strengthen the security operations center (SOC) foundations that AI-era operations depend on.
Here’s what’s new:
Extend protection and support investigations with Microsoft Defender
Bring more context into email investigation and hunting with Microsoft Security Copilot
Available for organizations using both Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Security Copilot, a new email detonation summary delivers AI-generated explanations of URL and file sandboxing results, helping SOC teams investigate faster by reducing the manual effort required to correlate detonation evidence and contextual signals.
