All news with #agentic ai tag

Fortinet Expands Unified SASE with Global POPs and AI

🚀 Fortinet announced enhancements to Fortinet Unified SASE, expanding its global footprint to over 170 points of presence and embedding AI-powered operations. FortiAI-Assist automates diagnostics and remediation to accelerate mean time to resolution, while an agentless Secure Browser and SaaS Security Posture Management extend DLP and compliance controls across 80+ SaaS apps. These updates aim to boost performance, simplify operations, and strengthen data protection for distributed workforces.

AI-targeted Cloaking Tricks Agentic Browsers, Warns SPLX

⚠ Researchers report a new form of context-poisoning called AI-targeted cloaking that serves different content to agentic browsers and AI crawlers. SPLX shows attackers can use a trivial user-agent check to deliver alternate pages to crawlers from ChatGPT and Perplexity, turning retrieved content into manipulated ground truth. The technique mirrors search engine cloaking but targets AI overviews and autonomous reasoning, creating a potent misinformation vector. A concurrent hTAG analysis also found many agents execute risky actions with minimal safeguards, amplifying potential harm.

Preparing for the Digital Battlefield of Identity Risk

🔒 BeyondTrust's 2026 predictions argue that the next major breaches will stem from unmanaged identity debt rather than simple phishing. The report highlights three identity-driven threats: agentic AI acting as privileged deputies vulnerable to prompt manipulation, automated "account poisoning" in financial systems, and long-dormant "ghost" identities surfacing in legacy IAM. The authors recommend an identity-first posture with strict least-privilege, context-aware controls, real-time auditing, and stronger identity governance.

Google Public Sector Summit: A New Era for Government AI

🔔 At the Google Public Sector Summit in Washington D.C., leaders highlighted a shift toward agentic AI and large-scale cloud modernization. Google introduced Gemini for Government, an accredited platform providing an AI Agent Gallery, agent-to-agent protocols, enterprise connectors, and governance controls to deploy and monitor AI agents. Speakers showcased real-world deployments across defense, city, and education sectors, and Google announced expanded partner investments plus an enhanced partnership with NVIDIA to support on-premises and air-gapped environments.

Open-Source b3 Benchmark Boosts LLM Security Testing

🛡️ The UK AI Security Institute (AISI), Check Point and Lakera have launched b3, an open-source benchmark to assess and strengthen the security of backbone LLMs that power AI agents. b3 focuses on the specific LLM calls within agent workflows where malicious inputs can trigger harmful outputs, using 10 representative "threat snapshots" combined with a dataset of 19,433 adversarial attacks from Lakera’s Gandalf initiative. The benchmark surfaces vulnerabilities such as system prompt exfiltration, phishing link insertion, malicious code injection, denial-of-service and unauthorized tool calls, making LLM security more measurable, reproducible and comparable across models and applications.

Practical AI Tactics for GRC: Opportunities and Risks

🔍 Join a free expert webinar that translates rapid AI advances into practical, actionable tactics for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) teams. The session will showcase real-world examples of AI improving compliance workflows, early lessons from agentic AI deployments, and the common risks teams often overlook. Expect clear guidance on mitigation strategies, regulatory gaps, and how to prepare your team to make AI a competitive compliance advantage.

Identity Crisis at the Perimeter: AI-Driven Impersonation

🛡️ Organizations face an identity crisis as generative AI and vast troves of breached personal data enable realistic digital doppelgangers. Attackers now automate hyper-personalized phishing, smishing and vishing, clone voices, and run coordinated multi-channel campaigns that reference real colleagues and recent projects. The article urges a shift to “never trust, always verify,” with radical visibility, rapid detection and phishing-resistant authentication such as FIDO2. It also warns of emerging agentic AI and recommends strict least-privilege controls plus continuous red-teaming.

Top 7 Agentic AI Use Cases Transforming Cybersecurity

🔐 Agentic AI is presented as a practical cybersecurity capability that can operate without direct human supervision, handling high-volume, time-sensitive tasks at machine speed. Industry leaders from Zoom to Dell Technologies and Deloitte highlight seven priority use cases — from autonomous threat detection and SOC augmentation to real-time zero‑trust enforcement — that capitalize on AI's scale and speed. The technology aims to reduce alert fatigue, accelerate mitigation, and free human teams for strategic work.

Microsoft and NVIDIA Deepen AI Infrastructure Partnership

🚀 Microsoft and NVIDIA announced expanded AI infrastructure on Azure, bringing NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition to Azure Local, new Nemotron and Cosmos models via Azure AI Foundry, and broader support for Run:ai and GB300 NVL72 supercomputing clusters. These updates enable on-premises and edge AI with cloud-like management, improved GPU utilization, and infrastructure tailored for frontier reasoning, multimodal workloads, and real-time inferencing. Microsoft also highlighted NVIDIA Dynamo optimizations for ND GB200-v6 VMs to boost inference throughput at scale.

Microsoft Copilot adds App Builder and Workflows agents

🤖 Microsoft introduced two new Microsoft 365 Copilot agents, App Builder and Workflows, to help employees create apps and automate tasks using their Microsoft 365 data. Users can describe requirements in natural language and Copilot will generate interactive elements or automated flows across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Planner and other services. Outputs are integrated with the Copilot experience and protected by enterprise-grade security and role-based access controls. App Builder will be added to the Agent Store this week, while Workflows is already available to customers enrolled in the Frontier program.

GitHub Agent HQ: Native, Governed AI Agents in Flow

🤖 GitHub announced Agent HQ, a unified platform that makes coding agents native to the GitHub workflow. Over the coming months, partner agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cognition, and xAI will become available as part of paid Copilot subscriptions. The release introduces a cross‑surface mission control, VS Code planning and customizable AGENTS.md files, and an enterprise control plane with governance, metrics, and code‑quality tooling to manage agent-driven work.

GitHub Agent HQ: Native AI Agents and Governance Launch

🤖 Agent HQ integrates AI agents directly into the GitHub workflow, making third-party coding assistants available through paid Copilot subscriptions. It introduces a cross-surface mission control to assign, steer, and track agents from GitHub, VS Code, mobile, and the CLI. VS Code additions include Plan Mode, AGENTS.md for custom agent rules, and an MCP Registry to discover partner servers. Enterprise features add governance, audit logging, branch CI controls, and a Copilot metrics dashboard.

GitHub Agent HQ: Native, Open Ecosystem & Controls

🚀 GitHub introduced Agent HQ, a native platform that centralizes AI agents within the GitHub workflow. The initiative will bring partner coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cognition, and xAI into Copilot subscriptions and VS Code. A unified "mission control" offers a consistent command center across GitHub, VS Code, mobile, and the CLI. Enterprise-grade controls, code quality tooling, and a Copilot metrics dashboard provide governance and visibility for teams.

Enabling a Safe Agentic Web with reCAPTCHA Controls

🔐 Google Cloud outlines a pragmatic framework to secure the emerging agentic web while preserving smooth user experiences. The post details how reCAPTCHA and Google Cloud combine agent and user identity, continuous behavior analysis, and AI-resistant mitigations such as mobile-device attestations. It highlights enabling safe agentic commerce via protocols like AP2 and tighter integration with cloud AI services.

The AI Fix 74: AI Glasses, Deepfakes, and AGI Debate

🎧 In episode 74 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley survey recent AI developments including Amazon’s experimental delivery glasses, Channel 4’s AI presenter, and reports of LLM “brain rot.” They examine practical security risks — such as malicious browser extensions spoofing AI sidebars and AI browsers being tricked into purchases — alongside wider societal debates. The episode also highlights public calls to pause work on super-intelligence and explores what AGI really means.

Agent Factory Recap: AI Agents for Data Engineering

🔍 The episode of The Agent Factory reviewed practical AI agents for data engineering and data science, highlighting demos that combine Gemini, BigQuery, Colab Enterprise, and Spanner-based graph queries. It showcased a BigQuery Data Engineering Agent that generates pipelines, time dimensions, and data-quality assertions from SQL, and a Data Science Agent that runs end-to-end anomaly detection in Colab. The post also covered CodeMender for autonomous code security fixes and a creative Spanner+ADK comic demo illustrating multi-region concepts.

Prisma AIRS 2.0: Unified Platform for Secure AI Agents

🔒 Prisma AIRS 2.0 is a unified AI security platform that delivers end-to-end visibility, risk assessment and automated defenses across agents, models and development pipelines. It consolidates Protect AI capabilities to provide posture and runtime protections for AI agents, model scanning and API-first controls for MLOps. The platform also offers continuous, autonomous red teaming and a managed MCP Server to embed threat detection into workflows.

Cortex AgentiX: Agentic AI Platform for Autonomous SOC

🤖 Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex AgentiX, an agentic AI platform designed to build, deploy and govern autonomous security and IT agents. The vendor says AgentiX extends the Cortex foundation and leverages 1.2 billion playbook executions to deliver end-to-end agentic workflows and drive up to a 98% reduction in Mean Time to Respond with 75% less manual work. It ships with prebuilt agents for threat intelligence, email, endpoint, network, cloud and IT, and highlights full transparency, role-based controls and human-in-the-loop approvals. AgentiX is embedded in Cortex XSIAM and Cortex Cloud today; a standalone platform and Cortex XDR integration are slated for early 2026.

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings — Unified Cross-Modal

🚀 Amazon announces general availability of Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a unified embedding model designed for agentic RAG and semantic search across text, documents, images, video, and audio. The model handles inputs up to 8K tokens and video/audio segments up to 30 seconds, with segmentation for larger files and selectable embedding dimensions. Both synchronous and asynchronous APIs are supported to balance latency and throughput, and Nova is available in Amazon Bedrock in US East (N. Virginia).

PayPal and Google Cloud Launch Agentic Commerce Solution

🛒 PayPal and Google Cloud announced a joint agentic commerce offering that integrates Google Cloud’s Conversational Commerce agent with payments powered by PayPal. The solution leverages the open Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol and the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)—which extends A2A and the Model Context Protocol—to enable agent-to-agent payment flows secured by Verifiable Digital Credentials. Merchants can deploy Google’s out‑of‑the‑box conversational agent or build custom agents with the Agent Development Kit (ADK), retaining control over tone, branding, and the customer relationship while benefiting from integrated payment and fraud controls.