Build 2026: Microsoft's MDASH exits preview with 100+ specialized threat-hunting AI agents - ZDNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Microsoft's Build 2026 security news centers on an agentic AI vulnerability system designed to find real exploitable flaws, connect them to Defender and GitHub, and help developers fix them faster. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Last month, Microsoft introduced MDASH, its Microsoft Security multi-model agentic scanning harness. Despite the unfortunate name, this was a big swing, designed to reduce security alerts from constant noise to those that directly cause exploitable vulnerabilities. The big news today coming from Build 2026 is that Microsoft is folding the MDASH capability into a full enterprise security control plane, connecting Defender, GitHub Code Security, Agent 365, and Purview. Also: Enterprise AI agents are multiplying fast, and Microsoft wants full control of them According to Microsoft’s chief security architect Aleš Holeček, “AI vulnerability discovery has crossed from research curiosity into production-grade defense at enterprise scale, and the durable advantage lies in the agentic system around the model rather than any