ambient security

About this tag
Ambient security is a concept Microsoft is advancing to embed autonomous security capabilities directly into the fabric of IT environments, particularly for the agentic AI era. At Ignite 2025, Microsoft introduced Agent 365 and integrated protections across Defender, Entra, Purview, Intune, and Sentinel to make security a default primitive for AI agents. At RSAC 2026, Microsoft plans to detail how organizations can manage intelligent, autonomous agents at scale with ambient, autonomous security woven into every layer. Discussions on WindowsForum cover these announcements, focusing on how ambient security re-architects enterprise defenses for an era where AI agents operate alongside people and execute tasks autonomously.
  1. Microsoft RSAC 2026: Ambient Autonomous Security and Agent Governance

    Microsoft’s RSAC plan lands squarely on the idea that the next security frontier isn’t just about smarter defenses — it’s about re-architecting how organizations manage intelligent, autonomous agents at scale and making security itself an ambient, autonomous capability woven into every layer of...
  2. Microsoft unveils Agent 365 and ambient security for agentic AI at Ignite 2025

    Microsoft’s vision for “ambient and autonomous security” reaches beyond slogan to product: at Ignite 2025 the company unveiled a control plane, observability surfaces, and a set of integrated protections intended to make security the default primitive for the agentic era—an environment where AI...