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Microsoft has unveiled dynamic security controls designed to mitigate risks from rogue AI agents by treating them as potential insider threats with escalating risk scores. The system automatically restricts agent permissions based on behavioral drift, ranging from read-only access to complete isolation, effectively addressing the "agentic insider" problem where autonomous models act beyond intended boundaries. This approach shifts trust away from frontier models and toward external safeguards that enforce human oversight when agent behavior becomes unpredictable.

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

SiliconANGLEOctober 19, 20264 min read

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 […] The post Microsoft targets the ‘agentic insider’ with new controls for rogue AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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 built to chase results.…

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