Microsoft Unveils First Specialized AI Security Model For Cyber Defense

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Microsoft wants to fight AI-powered cyberattacks with AI defenders of its own. The company has unveiled Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed to hunt down weaknesses, investigate threats, and strengthen defenses at machine speed.

Its argument is that conventional security tooling, built around the assumption of human attackers, can no longer keep pace. Autonomous systems now generate exploits faster, scale campaigns further, and run around the clock while the cost of launching an attack keeps falling. That same rise in AI-driven risk has already pushed lawmakers toward emergency kill switch powers after a major AI breach, and Project Perception aims to counter the shift by continuously analyzing risk across an organization's identities, endpoints, applications, data, cloud services, and AI systems.

The system leans on three groups of specialized AI agents that work as a closed loop. Red team agents probe an environment for paths to compromise before real...

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