Agents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed.

Reported by Microsoft Security (Nadim Abdo)

Summary by Cyber Security News19 Oct 2026, 15:00 CET

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Agents are rapidly becoming part of how work gets done. They can support a range of activities from writing code and researching products to analyzing revenue, processing expenses, and acting across the systems that run the business. To be most useful, they often need access to company data, applications, tools, and other agents.

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