
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 workloads, and improvements to its recently launched multi-agent vulnerability research system MDASH, among others.
“AI is accelerating development and introducing new issues around insecure code, opaque models, data exposure, and compliance,” Aleš Holeček, chief architect at Microsoft Security, said in a blog p...