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AI
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 …

Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots

Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different …

Agent Threat Rules
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, …

NVIDIA
NVIDIA goes open source with a big batch of physical AI agent tools

NVIDIA just dropped a big batch of open-source “physical AI” skills and tools, and they’re designed to make a roboticist’s life a whole lot easier. The …

Agent Memory Guard
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 …

Windows
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 …

Google
Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster

Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, and patch …

AI agents
Microsoft open-sources tools for designing and testing AI agents

Microsoft has open-sourced two tools aimed at bringing security discipline to AI agent development: Clarity, a structured design review tool, and RAMPART, a continuous testing …

AI
AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested

Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton …

lock
When your AI assistant has the keys to production

Large language models in operational roles query telemetry, propose configuration changes, and in some deployments execute those changes against live infrastructure. Ticket …

Lyrie
Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent

Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by …

downtime
AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours

Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State …

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