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Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit
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, …

AWS
Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps

Amazon’s latest AI capabilities bring on-demand penetration testing through the AWS Security Agent, alongside the AWS DevOps Agent. “These agents are changing the way we …

AI
AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet

Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in …

AI agent
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 …

AI
Training an AI agent to attack LLM applications like a real adversary

Most enterprise software development teams now ship AI-powered applications faster than traditional penetration testing can keep up with. A security team with 500 applications …

AI
The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer

Organizations have spent years accumulating fragmented identity systems: too many roles, too many credentials, too many disconnected tools. For a workforce of humans, that …

Gidi Cohen
Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where?

In this Help Net Security interview, Gidi Cohen, CEO at Bonfy.AI, addresses what he sees as the most pressing gap in AI agent security: data-layer risk. While the industry …

AI
Hidden instructions in README files can make AI agents leak data

Developers rely on AI coding agents to set up projects, install dependencies, and run commands by following instructions in repository README files, which provide setup …

Code
AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes

Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities …

target
Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets

Cybercriminals spent much of 2025 automating their operations, shifting from one-off attacks to systems that can run entire intrusion cycles with minimal human input. Data …

Sage
Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS

Autonomous AI agents running on developer workstations execute shell commands, fetch URLs, and write files with little or no inspection of what they are doing. Open-source …

Cursor
Cursor Automations turns code review and ops into background tasks

Cursor Automations, the always-on agent platform from Cursor, is expanding with a new generation of autonomous systems that streamline code review, incident response, and …

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