# Microsoft expands Project Perception to treat AI agents as insider risks

By Zola Kade (Root Access), Golden Era of Super Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-19T13:51:53.389Z
Section: Tools & Open Source
Event date: October 19, 2026
Tags: Microsoft, Project Perception, agent security, Microsoft 365 E7, Guardian Agents
URL: https://goldenera.si/news/microsoft-project-perception-agent-insider-risk/

> Microsoft is extending Project Perception to assess AI agents as insider risks and adjust their permissions, with GeekWire tying the tools to Microsoft 365 E7.

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Microsoft is expanding Project Perception so it can treat AI agents as potential insider risks and adapt their permissions as that risk changes. Satya Nadella announced it today on X: "Today, we're putting that principle into practice by expanding Project Perception with new capabilities to help continuously assess agent risk, adapt permissions, and contain threats." GeekWire's Todd Bishop reported that the tools arrive in the Microsoft 365 E7 bundle.

Here is how it works, per Microsoft's blog post. Signals from identity, data, cloud, endpoint, network and runtime sensors discover agents and assign each an identity, a container, and a set of policies and permissions. Those signals help dynamically assess the risk associated with what an agent is attempting. Then Guardian Agents, made up of green and blue agents, supervise every action of every agent and respond as risk rises. Microsoft says that supervision runs 24/7 and covers seven layers: identity, permissions, data, endpoints, network, cloud and runtime.

The context: in July, Microsoft announced Project Perception to defend against AI-driven attacks from outside the enterprise. This points it inward, at agents that Microsoft says are frequently overprivileged.

What the post does not include: E7 is never mentioned, and there is no pricing, availability date or benchmark.

My take: the architecture is clear, and I'd like a price and an install page. A diagram is not a deployment.

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## Sources

- [Securing the agentic insider](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/19/securing-the-agentic-insider/), The Official Microsoft Blog
- [@satyanadella: I recently wrote about why we need to treat models as insider risks, with security controls sitting outside the model itself.](https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2112168320946634932), X