Build 2026: Microsoft's MDASH exits preview with 100+ specialized threat-hunting AI agents

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ZDNET's key takeaways

  • Microsoft is turning AI into a security triage tool.
  • Microsoft wants to secure code, agents, data, and models.
  • MDASH uses AI agents to cut through scanner noise.

Last month, Microsoft introduced MDASH, its Microsoft Security multi-model agentic scanning harness. Despite the unfortunate name, this was a big swing, designed to reduce security alerts from constant noise to those that directly cause exploitable vulnerabilities.

The big news today coming from Build 2026 is that Microsoft is folding the MDASH capability into a full enterprise security control plane, connecting Defender, GitHub Code Security, Agent 365, and Purview.

Also: Enterprise AI agents are multiplying fast, and Microsoft wants full control of them

According to Microsoft's chief security architect Aleš Holeček, "AI vulnerability discovery has crossed from research curiosity into production-grade defense at enterprise scale, and the durable advantage lies...

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