Microsoft Unveils Project Perception, Launching AI Security Preview on August 3
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Updated · Microsoft · Jul 27
Microsoft Unveils Project Perception, Launching AI Security Preview on August 3
3 articles · Updated · Microsoft · Jul 27
Summary
Project Perception will enter public preview on August 3 as Microsoft’s new agentic security system built to detect, reason over and respond to threats at machine speed.
Microsoft says the platform is designed for AI-era attacks that generate exploits faster and scale campaigns further than human-led defenses can handle.
Three agent classes power the system: red team agents map attack paths, blue team agents investigate and prioritize risk, and green team agents take corrective actions to harden defenses.
A multi-model architecture underpins the product, with Microsoft’s MAI-Cyber-1-Flash scoring 96% on CyberGym—12 points above Mythos—and cutting software-vulnerability-management costs by nearly 50% in MDASH.
The launch reflects Microsoft’s push for a new 'Cyber Stack' that links signals, context, models and actuators across identities, endpoints, apps, data, clouds and AI systems.