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Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash
As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…
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Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash
As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…
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Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash
As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…
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Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar
Enterprise teams are running AI agents that write code, drive browsers, answer customer calls, manage cloud infrastructure, and query data warehouses with standing credentials. A new independent assessment of 100 production agents finds that nearly all of them carry the conditions for a single hostile document to take them over. The AI Risk Quadrant (AIRQ)…
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Agent Threat Rules: Open detection rule format for AI agent security threats
AI agents run inside coding assistants, MCP servers, and multi-agent frameworks, and the access that makes them useful also opens paths to prompt injection, tool poisoning, and credential theft. Public CVE feeds carry agent-execution flaws that reach production faster than the tooling built to catch them. Agent Threat Rules, or ATR, is an open detection…
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Sectigo launches AI-powered server for certificate lifecycle management
The MCP Server for Sectigo Certificate Manager acts as a secure intermediary between AI agents, such as Microsoft Copilot and Claude, and Sectigo’s certificate management platform.
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Securing AI Agents Before They Go Rogue Is Next to Impossible
High-autonomy agents with broad permissions and unfettered access are a recipe for disaster, and enterprises need to act now before they become the next horror story.
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DNS-AID lets AI agents find and verify each other through DNS
AI agents run across many platforms, and each one needs a way to locate and confirm the identity of the others it works with. The Linux Foundation’s DNS-AID project gives them that capability through the Domain Name System, the same address lookup system that has directed internet traffic for decades. The project lets AI agents…
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OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory
AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a privileged input the agent reads back later. An attacker who plants text in the wrong field can override an agent’s instructions, pull out user data, or steer future tool calls,…
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DNS-AID will make AI agents easier to discover, says Linux Foundation
As AI agents become more numerous and more communicative, keeping track of where to find them is becoming increasingly important. Numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we already have. The foundation is now inviting contributions to the…
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Agentic AI Isn’t Risky; the Way Orgs Deploy It Is
AI agents aren’t black boxes — they’re models interacting with software tools. The risk lies in their overlap.
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Qevlar’s new AI agents correlate CVEs, incident data, and active exploitation signals
Qevlar has announced a new set of AI agents designed to bridge the disconnect between Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and vulnerability management teams. The new capabilities help security teams correlate CVEs with live incident data for real-time risk prioritization, automatically identify asset owners to speed remediation, and autonomously hunt for active CVE exploitation. General availability…
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OWASP launches FinBot to help developers secure AI agents
OWASP’s FinBot gives developers hands-on training to secure AI agents.
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The AI governance imperative you can’t afford to ignore
CIOs rushing to roll out AI agents without real visibility into their decision-making processes are flirting with disaster. According to AI experts, deploying agents without observability processes and tools creates a ticking time bomb with the potential for huge negative consequences. Many companies are deploying AI agents and expecting them to increase productivity with little…
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Microsoft’s new cloud PCs place AI agents under enterprise controls
Microsoft’s Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud PC platform for agentic workloads, runs AI agents in secure environments. Organizations can direct agents with natural language to interact with applications, browsers, files, and enterprise systems. The platform is available in public preview. A conceptual computer-using agent architecture. (Source: Microsoft) Users will be able to automate workflows…
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Nudge Security adds browser-based discovery for shadow AI agents
Nudge Security announced that its AI security platform offers discovery of shadow AI agents via the browser, extending its agent discovery capabilities to cover platforms that do not provide a public API for agent identity and inventory. The new browser-based agentic AI discovery closes a fundamental gap, where other solutions depend solely on platform APIs…
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Companies built AI into core systems before figuring out how to govern it
70% of organizations use GenAI in live environments, and 64% have AI agents in pilot or production deployments. Some of those agents have privileged access to core systems, according to Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report. Confirmed and suspected AI incidents (Source: Check Point) Production AI expands the enterprise attack surface Security architectures built around…
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Doppel launches AI email security to disrupt phishing campaigns
Doppel Email Security utilizes autonomous agents and its Doppel 360 Threat Graph to investigate threats within the inbox.
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A new identity class: Why AI agents require runtime control
Because AI agents are neither human nor traditional machines, they must be treated as a third class of identity.
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AI security needs a shift from models to systems, researchers argue
Enterprises cannot secure AI agents by making the underlying models more robust and must instead enforce security controls at the system level around them, researchers behind a paper published this month argued, warning that traditional AI-security approaches are increasingly misaligned with how autonomous agents actually operate inside enterprise environments. The paper argues that enterprises should…
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7 identity security best practice for the Agentic AI era
Here’s how to harden the teams identity security to defend against the rising tide of AI agents.
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$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality
Vulnerability researchers have spent the past year arguing about whether AI agents can find real bugs at scale or whether they mostly generate noise. A pipeline built in three days by researchers from TrendAI and CHT Security supplies an answer, along with a price tag that the security industry will have to reckon with. The…
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Your AI Agent Doesn’t Care About Your Controls
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on AI agents and control assurance. Read Part 2: Controlling AI Agents: Why Detection Is Too Late The cybersecurity industry has spent years investing in visibility. Dashboards have improved, detection tooling has matured, and the volume of telemetry available to security teams has increased significantly. Most organisations…
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Why Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore chose Cedar for securing agentic workflows
Agents have agency: they adapt and find multiple ways to solve problems. This autonomy creates a fundamental security challenge: the large language model (LLM) at the heart of the agent is non-deterministic, and its decisions can’t be predicted or guaranteed in advance. It can hallucinate harmful actions with complete confidence. It’s vulnerable to prompt injection…
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Nvidia Beats Estimates With $81.6 Billion Sales in First Quarter
Astronomical rise in AI agents and demand for data-center computing lift chipmaker to another record quarter.
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Agentic AI Security Risks Increase Governance Demands for MSPs
BYOD was a headache. AI agents are an existential crisis. Advanced AI models pose a massive security and governance challenge for the channel, forcing managed service providers (MSPs) and tech partners to rethink how they protect corporate data. Agentic AI adoption exposes governance gaps The shift from passive, generative AI chatbots to fully autonomous agents…
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ArmorCode gives security teams AI workers for exposure and remediation
ArmorCode has announced Anya Agents, a new agentic AI framework delivered on the patented ArmorCode Agentic AI Platform that enables organizations to operationalize AI-driven security workflows at enterprise scale. Built on ArmorCode’s Context Risk Graph, Anya Agents help security teams move beyond generic AI assistants by turning unified security and business context into purpose-built AI…
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Nasuni Report Finds AI Agent Adoption Outpacing Readiness
Enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, but many organizations are struggling to turn pilots into measurable outcomes, according to new research from Nasuni. Nasuni’s State of Enterprise File Data Annual Report 2026 found that 97% of organizations have deployed or are piloting AI agents, while 57% of AI projects are not meeting their stated…
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MY TAKE: AI agents force a rethink of enterprise service lines as vendors move up the tech tack
ORLANDO — Companies are pulling AI agents into their daily operations through a dozen side doors. Related: SaaS and AI agents converge One of them was in focus at KB4-CON, KnowBe4’s annual customer conference at the Marriott World Center here last week. The Clearwater, Fla.-based cybersecurity training vendor used the conference to lay out a…
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The Boring Stuff is Dangerous Now
AI agents capable of discovering and exploiting obscure vulnerabilities are emerging alongside developers producing vast amounts of potentially flawed AI-generated code, forcing defenders to adapt accordingly.
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AI coding is fueling a secrets-sprawl crisis few CISOs are containing
When Matt Schlicht built Moltbook, the social network where AI agents talk to one another, he didn’t write the code himself. He “just had a vision,” and vibe-coded it. The social network launched on Jan. 28, 2026, and within days, security researchers started to see serious security flaws. Experts at cloud security company Wiz and,…
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Agentic Governance: Why It Matters Now
AI agents now act inside the trust boundary with real credentials, and agentic governance is what keeps them from quietly breaking things at machine speed.
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The Next Cybersecurity Challenge May Be Verifying AI Agents
AI agents are reshaping cybersecurity. Learn why verification, trusted identity standards, and runtime controls are now essential.
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Companies Have a New AI Problem: Too Many Agents
As it gets easier to create artificial-intelligence agents with platforms like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork , some businesses are dealing with ‘AI agent sprawl.’
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Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1
Organizations manage an average of 109 machine identities for every human identity. AI agents account for a growing share of those identities, with companies expecting AI agent growth of 85% over the next 12 months. Machine identities are projected to increase by 77%, and human identities by 56%, based on data from Palo Alto Networks’…
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NVIDIA NemoClaw Research Highlights AI Sandbox Exfiltration Risks
Researchers at Lasso have found that sandboxing autonomous AI agents may not be enough to stop sensitive data theft after demonstrating multiple exfiltration techniques against NVIDIA’s NemoClaw and OpenShell environments. The findings show how attackers can abuse trusted tools and approved outbound connections to quietly steal credentials, manipulate agent behavior, and maintain persistence inside AI…
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LatAm Vibe Hackers Generate Custom Hacking Tools on the Fly
In the latest evolution of automated cyberattacks, two threat campaigns heavily leveraged AI agents to support attacks against entities in Mexico and Brazil.
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Flaw in Claude’s Chrome extension allowed ‘any’ other plugin to hijack victims’ AI
As businesses and governments turn to AI agents to access the internet and perform higher-level tasks, researchers continue to find serious flaws in large language models that can be exploited by bad actors. The latest discovery comes from browser security firm LayerX, involving a bug in the Chrome extension for Anthropic’s Claude AI model that…
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Extreme Networks introduces Agent ONE for autonomous enterprise networking
Extreme Networks has introduced Extreme Agent ONE, a new class of AI agents for enterprise networking. Moving beyond generic, prompt-based AI, Extreme Agent ONE runs on the Extreme AI stack purpose-built for enterprise environments, which combines advanced AI reasoning, live network context, and operational expertise to transform enterprise networks into systems that detect, decide, and…
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Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI
As enterprises rush to deploy internal LLMs, AI copilots, and autonomous agents, most security conversations focus on familiar threats: prompt injection, jailbreaks, model abuse, and data exfiltration. But some security leaders argue a quieter risk deserves far more attention: what happens when the model’s understanding of reality itself becomes corrupted. This problem is broadly described…
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Introducing AI traffic analysis dashboards for AWS WAF
As AI agents, bots, and programmatic access become an increasingly significant portion of web traffic, organizations need better tools to understand, analyze, and manage this activity. Today, we’re excited to announce AI Traffic Analysis dashboards for AWS WAF protection packs—also known as web access control lists (web ACLs)—providing comprehensive visibility into AI bot and agent…
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Microsoft, Google push AI agent governance into enterprise IT mainstream
Microsoft and Google are adding new controls for AI agents, as enterprise IT teams try to keep up with tools that can access corporate data and act across business applications. Microsoft’s Agent 365, made generally available for commercial customers on May 1, is designed to help organizations discover, govern, and secure AI agents, including those…
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One in four MCP servers opens AI agent security to code execution risk
Enterprise deployments of AI agents lean on two extension mechanisms that introduce risk at different layers of the stack. MCP servers expose deterministic code functions with structured, loggable invocations. Skills load textual instruction sets directly into a model’s reasoning context, where their effect depends on conversational state and cannot be enumerated the way source code…
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Lens Agents brings policy control to AI across cloud and desktop
Lens by Mirantis has announced Lens Agents, a governed platform for running AI agents across enterprise systems, giving organizations a unified, policy-driven way to run, secure, and scale AI agents across desktop and cloud environments. Available in early access, Lens Agents enables organizations to connect any AI agent, including desktop tools like Claude, Cursor, and…
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Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall
AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one compromised tool call can leak credentials to an attacker-controlled domain. Pipelock, an open-source security harness developed by Joshua Waldrep under the PipeLab project, addresses this exposure by inserting an enforcement layer…
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Are we ready to give AI agents the keys to the cloud? Cloudflare thinks so
Cloudflare is giving AI agents full autonomy to spin up new apps. Starting today, agents working on behalf of humans can create a Cloudflare account, begin a paid subscription, register a domain, and then receive an API token to let them immediately deploy code. To kick things off, human users must first accept the cloud…
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Gartner sees untamed growth in agentic AI
Fortune 500 enterprises will be deploying armies of AI agents by 2028 — to the tune of 150,000 digital “workers,” Gartner said in a survey released this week. That would represent a sharp jump from the average of about 15 agents deployed per company last year. And agents as actual co-working tools are likely to…
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SHARED INTEL Q&A: PKI’s unfinished business—’digital passports’ for content, models and agents
As if keeping track of machine identities wasn’t hard enough. AI agents are now arriving by the thousands — and most enterprises are just handing them borrowed credentials and hoping for the best. Meanwhile, the cryptographic infrastructure asked to absorb these threats faces a hard regulatory countdown requiring digital certificates — the credentials securing every…
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Auvik Unveils Aurora AI Agents for Proactive IT Management
IT management software provider Auvik has announced the launch of Auvik Aurora, AI-powered IT agents designed to help IT professionals proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimize their networks. AI agents target network visibility and ticket resolution According to Auvik, its new AI agents aim to bridge the gap created by IT teams managing an increasing number…
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FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments
AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are carried out on a user’s behalf. The FIDO Alliance has announced a set of initiatives to build shared standards for these interactions, covering how AI…
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GitLab Deepens Integration with Anthropic’s Claude Models to Accelerate Secure Software Development
COMPANY NEWS: AI agents in GitLab Duo Agent Platform can now call Anthropic’s newest Claude models, with every action governed by GitLab’s existing compliance, audit, and policy framework; no separate governance layer required. Enterprises can access Claude models, including the newly released Claude Opus 4.7, through GitLab via Google Cloud and AWS Bedrock to route…
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Securing RAG pipelines in enterprise SaaS
In the enterprise SaaS space, AI agents are becoming an integral part of the SaaS product. To make these intelligent agents truly useful, they need contextual, customer-specific knowledge, something standard Large Language Models (LLMs), open source or otherwise, inherently lack since they are not trained on customer proprietary data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the bridge…
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What CISOs need to get right as identity enters the agentic era
Identity has always been central to security, but the proliferation of AI agents is rapidly changing the challenge of managing and securing identity, spurring CISOs to rethink their identity strategies — even how it is defined. “Identity is now both a control surface and an attack surface. We’ve had non-human identities as API keys, tokens,…
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Microsoft Patches Entra ID Role Flaw That Enabled Service Principal Takeover
An administrative role meant for artificial intelligence (AI) agents within Microsoft Entra ID could enable privilege escalation and identity takeover attacks, according to new findings from Silverfort. Agent ID Administrator is a privileged built-in role introduced by Microsoft as part of its agent identity platform to handle all aspects of an AI agent’s identity lifecycle…
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Microsoft patched an ‘agent-only’ role that was not
An administrative role meant for AI agents within Microsoft’s Entra ID ecosystem could allow privilege escalation and tenant takeover attacks, as it had privileges over more than agent-related objects. Researchers at Silverfort found that users assigned to Microsoft’s “Agent ID Administrator” role, scoped to agent-related objects like blueprints and agent identities, could take ownership of…
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Adobe bets on AI agents to stay at the center of marketing workflows
Adobe is rolling out autonomous agents to orchestrate work across its applications, a move that will reinforce its position at the core of content and marketing workflows as AI disrupts the software landscape, analysts say. “We’re living at true inflection point; a moment where creativity and marketing are being reshaped by AI, unlocking incredible new…
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Glasswing Secured the Code. The Rest of Your Stack Is Still on You
Forgotten integrations, shadow IT, SaaS, and now shadow AI and agents are everywhere, and attackers don’t need sophisticated AI models to take advantage.
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Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild
The open web is slowly but surely filling up with “traps” designed for LLM-powered AI agents. The technique, known as indirect prompt injection (IPI), involves hiding (more or less) covert instructions inside ordinary web pages, waiting for an AI agent to read them and carry out the author’s commands. The IPI attack kill chain (Source:…
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Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous Observability as the Decision Engine
The AI Agent Authority Gap – From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply that agents are new actors. It is that agents are delegated actors. They do not emerge…
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Behind Meta’s Huge Layoffs Is a Relentless Shift Toward AI
As the company envisions smaller teams and supersmart agents, some employees are wondering how they fit in.
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Researchers Uncover 10 In-the-Wild Prompt Injection Payloads Targeting AI Agents
Forcepoint has found 10 new indirect prompt injection attacks targeting AI agents
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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming
Enterprises running customer service bots, data analytics agents, and other AI-driven applications in production handle sensitive records and connect to core business systems every day. LangWatch has released Scenario, an open-source framework that runs automated red-team exercises against AI agents using multi-turn attack techniques that mirror how adversaries operate in the wild. Multi-turn attacks replace…
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ServiceNow and Google Cloud Unite AI Agents for Autonomous Enterprise Operations
AI agents across Google Gemini’s Enterprise platform and the ServiceNow AI Platform work as one autonomous chain across 5G networking, retail, and IT systems
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SAP and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Deploy Multi-Agent AI
Customers can deploy Joule Agents in SAP CX Solutions to build, launch, and optimize marketing campaigns Gemini Enterprise acts as a central hub for agents to take action across SAP and Google Cloud platforms
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Exabeam Extends Agent Behaviour Analytics to the Google Cloud Agent Ecosystem
COMPANY NEWS: Comprehensive visibility and anomaly detection now available for agents built with Google Cloud’s Agent Development Kit and multi-agent workflows via the upcoming Google Agent Gateway
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Toxic Combinations: When Cross-App Permissions Stack into Risk
On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents. The more worrying part sat inside the private messages. Some of those conversations held plaintext third-party credentials, including OpenAI API…
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OpenAI updates Agents SDK, adds sandbox for safer code execution
OpenAI’s updated Agents SDK helps developers build agents that inspect files, run commands, edit code, and handle tasks within controlled sandbox environments. The update provides standardized infrastructure for OpenAI models, a model-native harness that lets agents work with files and tools on a computer, and native sandbox execution for running tasks safely. The new harness…
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Command integrity breaks in the LLM routing layer
Systems that rely on LLM agents often send requests through intermediary routing services before reaching a model. These routers connect to different providers through a single endpoint and manage how requests are handled. This layer can influence what gets executed and what data is exposed. A recent study examined 28 paid routers and 400 free…
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Copado Puts AI Agents Inside DevOps Workflows
Copado just rolled out Agentia, a shiny new AI tool that adds automated agents into the day-to-day work of building, testing, and releasing software in Salesforce. How agentic AI is developing code and other time-intensive workloads That means the agents aren’t just suggesting things or answering questions; they’re actually writing code, running tests, diagnosing failures,…
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Equinix Accelerates Enterprise AI Workloads with Launch of Fabric Intelligence
AI agents autonomously manage networking environments to create more adaptive, efficient and resilient infrastructure for customers
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Copilot and Agentforce fall to form-based prompt injection tricks
Enterprise AI agents are supposed to streamline workflows. Instead, two fresh findings show they can just as easily streamline data exfiltration. Security researchers have uncovered prompt-injection vulnerabilities in both Microsoft Copilot Studio and Salesforce Agentforce that allow attackers to execute malicious instructions via seemingly harmless prompts. According to Capsule Security findings, SharePoint forms and public-facing…
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Secure AI agent access patterns to AWS resources using Model Context Protocol
AI agents and coding assistants interact with AWS resources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Unlike traditional applications with deterministic code paths, agents reason dynamically, choosing different tools or accessing different data depending on context. You must assume an agent can do anything within its granted entitlements, whether OAuth scopes, API keys, or AWS Identity…
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GitLab Collaborates with Google Cloud to Bring Agentic DevSecOps to Enterprise Teams Using Vertex AI
COMPANY NEWS: AI agents in GitLab Duo Agent Platform can now call foundation models through Vertex AI, including Gemini models, with agent actions governed by GitLab’s built-in compliance and audit controls. Organisations can run GitLab’s AI Gateway on Google Cloud with no separate AI infrastructure to provision or manage. Customers with Google Cloud commitments can…
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AI Is Getting Smarter. Catching Its Mistakes Is Getting Harder.
As chatbots and agents grow more powerful and ubiquitous, recognizing the moments when they go rogue can be tricky.
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DataVisor brings conversational AI agents to fraud and AML operations
DataVisor has announced Vera, a suite of conversational AI agents designed to combat financial crime. Vera enables institutions to manage risk using natural language, allowing teams to issue instructions that AI agents execute across the fraud and AML lifecycle. By reducing manual workflows, the platform supports a more efficient and adaptive operating model for modern…
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29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control
AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of external services. Every integration point requires an identity. Most organizations are handling this badly, and the evidence is in the code. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl Report found 28,649,024 new…
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How to build your own AI agents with Google Workspace Studio
The great hope for AI agents is that they will automate many of the repetitive tasks office workers perform, such as writing and emailing weekly project updates. These tools combine rules-based automation with generative AI models to perform a series of tasks that make up a workflow. In this vein, Google late last year announced…
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Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows
Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. Developers can define tasks, tools, and permissions within a managed environment, while the platform handles execution and state management. The product is currently…
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Governance Gaps Emerge as AI Agents Drive 76% Increase in NHIs
SANS Institute reveals that AI agents are behind a 76% surge in non-human identities
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Asqav: Open-source SDK for AI agent governance
AI agents are executing consequential tasks autonomously, often across multiple systems and with little record of what they did or why. Asqav, a Python SDK released under the MIT license, addresses that gap by attaching a cryptographic signature to each agent action and linking entries into a hash chain. The signing algorithm is ML-DSA-65, standardized…
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API Security Risks Rise as AI Adoption Accelerates
As organizations deploy autonomous agents and generative AI tools at scale, APIs have become a backbone of modern operations — introducing a growing attack surface. Enterprises are rapidly embracing AI and API-driven architectures, but a new report from Salt Security reveals that security is struggling to keep up. “The future of AI will not be…
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Cynomi Launches AI Agents to Give Every MSP a vCISO Team
Cynomi is expanding its Security Growth Platform today with a new suite of AI Agents built specifically for managed service providers (MSPs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), and virtual CISO (vCISO) practices. The company is calling the launch an extension of what it describes as its “CISO Intelligence” infrastructure; essentially, the idea that the strategic…
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AI Agent Traps: How Hackers Are Turning the Web into a Minefield for Assistants
AI agents can automate tasks, but they also introduce new security risks. Here’s how “AI Agent Traps” can turn the web into a dangerous environment for autonomous systems.
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GitHub Copilot CLI gets a second-opinion feature built on cross-model review
Coding agents make decisions in sequence: a plan is drafted, implemented, then tested. Any error introduced early compounds as subsequent steps build on the same flawed assumption. Self-reflection is a recognized mitigation technique, and one GitHub Copilot already supports, but a model reviewing its own output is still constrained by the same training data and…
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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents
AI agents can book travel, execute financial transactions, write and run code, and manage infrastructure without human intervention at each step. Frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service have made this kind of autonomy straightforward to deploy. The governance infrastructure to match that autonomy has lagged behind. Microsoft released the Agent…
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Asana’s chief product officer: Why enterprise AI agents should be ‘multiplayer by design’
As AI agents become more embedded in workplace tools, Asana is positioning its approach around collaboration rather than individual productivity. “We believe in AI being ‘multiplayer’ by design,” said chief product officer Arnab Bose. “The future of the agentic enterprise will only be realized if agents can work independently and with multiple people, versus just…
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Google’s Vertex AI Has an Over-Privileged Problem
Palo Alto researchers show how attackers could exploit AI agents on Google’s Vertex AI to steal data and break into restricted cloud infrastructure.
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OpenAI patches twin leaks as Codex slips and ChatGPT spills
OpenAI has fixed two flaws in its AI stack that could allow AI agents to move sensitive data in unintended ways. The issues, disclosed by researchers at BeyondTrust and Check Point Research, affect the OpenAI Codex coding agent and ChatGPT’s code execution environment, respectively. One enabled GitHub token theft through command injection, while the other…
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Buying the Dip? This AI Agent Will Do it For You
Public, an investing platform, will offer AI agents that can help put your brokerage account on autopilot.
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AI Agents Are Democratizing Finance but Also Redefining Risk
AI agents are transforming finance, enabling automated trading and payments, but introduce new risks around keys, data inputs and secure execution control.
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24/7 Payments for 24/7 Agents: The Case for Crypto in the Machine Economy
Crypto enables 24/7 payments for AI agents, replacing fiat limits with scalable machine-to-machine transactions and powering the emerging machine economy.
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Agent Computers: The PC Era, Amplified
For 40 years, the personal computer has been the most important tool in human hands. Now AI Agents are real, and amplifying the PC Era as never before.
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How to Evaluate AI SOC Agents: 7 Questions Gartner Says You Should Be Asking
AI SOC agents can reduce alert fatigue, but most teams fail to measure real outcomes. Prophet Security breaks down Gartner’s questions for evaluating AI SOC agents and separating real impact from hype. […]
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Breaking out: Can AI agents escape their sandboxes?
Container sandboxes are part of routine AI agent testing and deployment. Agents use them to run code, edit files, and interact with system resources without direct access to the host. The SandboxEscapeBench benchmark, developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and the AI Security Institute, evaluates whether an agent with shell access can escape…
AI, Global Security News
The People Who Are Using AI at Home to Free Up Their Time
Using AI agents to compare insurance plans and order groceries means more free time for riding bikes and playing the guitar.
AI, Global Security News
Optimizing Order Sourcing for Markdown Avoidance Through the Agentic Shift
AI agents are transforming Order Management Systems (OMS) from a static rules-based engine to a dynamic intelligence-based strategist. The post Optimizing Order Sourcing for Markdown Avoidance Through the Agentic Shift appeared first on RTInsights.
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
RSAC 2026 wrap-up – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
This year, AI agents took the center stage – as a defensive capability, but more pressingly as a risk many organizations haven’t caught up with
AI, Cloud Security, Global Security News
Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows
AI agents are operating across production enterprise environments at scale, and the identity infrastructure managing their access has not kept up with their deployment. A January 2026 survey of 228 IT and security professionals, conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance, finds that the majority of organizations have AI agents active in core systems, with fragmented…
APAC, Global Security News
The CPU Was Left for Dead by AI. Now AI Is Bringing It Back.
Arm Holdings foresees significant demand for its chips as swarms of intelligent agents require ever-more processing capacity.