red teaming

Microsoft is widening the perimeter of AI security testing with the External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA), a global initiative intended to bring academic researchers, security practitioners, and regional specialists directly into the work of finding failures in advanced AI systems before those...

Microsoft’s AI Red Team updated its agentic AI failure-mode taxonomy on June 4, 2026, adding seven categories after a year of red-team engagements against deployed agent systems, with new emphasis on supply-chain compromise, tool abuse, visual attacks, session contamination, and human-approval...

Microsoft is urging security teams to red-team AI systems across the entire application stack, not just the model, with Microsoft red teaming executive Craig Nelson emphasizing data connections, backend automation, credentials, and logging in a recent Microsoft Inside Track security video. The...