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Microsoft ships Agent 365 from preview to GA as shadow AI turns into a corporate security emergency
Technology
Published on 4 May 2026
It can now find rogue local agents on employee laptops
Microsoft has pulled Agent 365 out of preview and into general availability, betting that autonomous “shadow AI” is already a day-to-day enterprise risk. The platform offers a unified way to inventory and govern AI agents across clouds, SaaS, and endpoints—plus discovery of local agents on managed Windows devices, with Defender-style “blast radius” context.
- Agent 365 is now generally available as a centralized control plane for AI agents
- Microsoft highlights three real incident types including unauthenticated MCP exposure and prompt injection
- New local agent discovery targets employee-installed “shadow AI” on managed laptops
- Defender will map each agent’s blast radius and add policy controls, blocking, and alerts
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