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Microsoft introduces Guardian Agents in Project Perception

Oct 19, 2026

Microsoft introduces Guardian Agents and playbooks for investigating and containing enterprise-agent activity, alongside task-scoped permissions and dynamic risk controls.

Enterprise security begins supervising AI agents as active software actors with their own identities and permissions. The announced controls are intended protections, not a guarantee that agent failures are eliminated.

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