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Windows Platform Security and the Race to Secure AI Agents

Matt Saunders — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In a new Windows Developer Blog post titled "Windows platform security for AI agents", Microsoft positions Windows as the trustworthy operating system for autonomous agents and introduces the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) SDK as the core of that strategy. The post argues that containment, identity and manageability must be built into the operating system.

By Matt Saunders

Athena Coalition Brings Coordinated Defence to Open Source Security

Matt Saunders — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Cybersecurity firm Chainguard has announced the launch of Athena, an industry coalition to use artificial intelligence to find and fix vulnerabilities in widely-used open-source software before attackers can exploit them. The coalition focuses on libraries, containers and other components that underpin web browsers, data centres, smartphones and payment systems.

By Matt Saunders

AI Agent Identity and Permission Challenges: How Uber and Auth0 Are Rethinking Access Control

Eran Stiller — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:15:00 GMT

Uber recently described an internal architecture for propagating identity across multi-agent AI workflows. The design aims to perserve user context, agent provenance, and scoped access as agents delegate work and call internal tools. The case study aligns with Auth0’s view that AI agents need permissions based on delegated authority, scoped credentials, and explicit human approval boundaries.

By Eran Stiller

Run Untrusted AI Agent Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

Claudio Masolo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Container Apps Sandboxes. This new ARM resource type is Microsoft.App/SandboxGroups, runs untrusted code generated by agents in hardware-isolated environments. Each sandbox starts from an OCI disk image in less than a second. It can scale to thousands of instances at once and costs nothing when idle.

By Claudio Masolo