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2026 (9)

March (4)

security: Governing AI agent behavior: Aligning user, developer, role, and organizational intent

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-03-24

The report discusses how to govern AI agent behavior by aligning user, developer, role, and organizational intent for secure enterprise AI adoption.

security: CTI-REALM: A new benchmark for end-to-end detection rule generation with AI agents

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-03-20

Microsoft introduced CTI-REALM, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on end-to-end detection engineering. It measures whether agents can turn cyber threat intelligence into validated detection rules.

dotnet: Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents

.NET

2026-03-19

Microsoft says custom-built AI agents are being used to improve the .NET MAUI contribution workflow, with reported 50–70% reductions in issue resolution time. The post also claims increased test coverage and code quality.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: SQL MCP Server

Azure Updates

2026-03-18

Azure announced a public preview of SQL MCP Server, an MCP connector for production databases. It is part of Data API Builder and is intended to provide a simple, predictable, and secure way to connect AI agents to data workflows.

February (1)

security: 80% of Fortune 500 use active AI Agents: Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-02-10

Microsoft Security Blog post promoting its Cyber Pulse report, focused on cybersecurity risks related to active AI agents and the need for observability, governance, and security.

January (4)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant

Azure Updates

2026-01-28

Azure Databricks Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant is now generally available. It enables building, deploying, and managing AI agents directly within the Azure Databricks platform by leveraging unified data and AI capabilities and simplifying development with prebuilt components.

vscode: Giving Agents a Visual Voice: MCP Apps Support in VS Code

Visual Studio Code

2026-01-26

Visual Studio Code adds support for MCP Apps so AI agents can present interactive user interfaces inside the editor, enabling richer and more integrated developer workflows.

security: From runtime risk to real‑time defense: Securing AI agents

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-01-23

Microsoft Security Blog warns that attackers are increasingly exploiting generative orchestration, so securing AI agents at runtime is essential and requires real‑time defensive measures to detect and mitigate threats during operation.

security: A new era of agents, a new era of posture

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-01-21

Microsoft's post argues that the rise of autonomous AI agents is changing how organizations operate and requires a rethinking of security posture because increased agent autonomy expands the attack surface.

2025 (3)

November (3)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server for Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Updates

2025-11-24

Azure MCP Server is now generally available with support for Azure Database for MySQL, allowing AI agents and applications to interact with MySQL data using natural language via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Managed Redis integration with Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2025-11-19

Azure Managed Redis is now available in the Microsoft Foundry MCP tools catalog as a Public Preview, enabling customers to use Redis as a knowledge or memory store for Foundry-based AI agents and simplifying the connection between Redis and those agents.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced the general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions. MCP is a protocol that lets applications provide capabilities and context to large language models, including defining tools that AI agents can call. The new trigger makes it easier to expose Azure Functions as MCP tools so LLM-based agents can invoke serverless operations directly.