Microsoft is giving security agents more than alerts to summarize. Project Perception entered public preview on Aug. 3 with specialized AI agents designed to investigate threats, assess risk, and connect findings with defensive actions. The system extends Microsoft’s push from AI-assisted analysis toward coordinated security operations. Its agents can work across security data and tools, but wider authority raises immediate questions about permissions, accuracy, oversight, and auditability. Microsoft puts specialized agents on defense According to Microsoft’s agentic security announcement, Project Perception combines security signals, organizational context, multiple AI models, and specialized agents in what the company calls a new Cyber Stack. Microsoft says it can assess risk across identities, endpoints, applications, data, cloud environments, and AI systems. Three classes of agents divide the work. Red-team agents identify possible paths to compromise. Blue-team agents investigate activity and determine which findings represent meaningful risk. Green-team agents take corrective actions intended to strengthen defenses. Project Perception selects models according to quality, reliability, latency, and cost. Microsoft says human operators retain control, though customers will need to establish which …