By Dorothy Li
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 16:00:00
The cybersecurity landscape is at a historic inflection point. As cyberattackers wield AI to automate cyberattacks at extraordinary speed and scale, the challenge before us is not just to keep pace—but to leap ahead. There are over four million unfilled cybersecurity jobs, so depending solely on human resources isn’t enough to safeguard our digital future.1 To close this gap, it’s important to empower security professionals, enhancing their capabilities through intelligent agents—AI collaborators designed to augment human expertise and help transform organizational security.
That is why we are making security agents available in the everyday flow of work of security teams, embedded right in the tools they love and use. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we are not just announcing new features—we are redefining what’s possible, empowering security teams to shift from reactive responses to proactive strategies.