Microsoft targets the ‘agentic insider’ with new controls for rogue AI agents

Microsoft targets the ‘agentic insider’ with new controls for rogue AI agents

Microsoft Corp. today introduced security controls for rogue artificial intelligence agents that cut back what an agent may do as its assessed risk climbs.

The release takes on what Hayete Gallot, executive vice president of Microsoft Security, called the “agentic insider” in a blog post. Enterprise agents are often overprivileged, and their numbers are growing fast. Gallot argued that frontier models cannot be fully trusted because they are…