{"slug": "portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-agent-access", "title": "Portnox adds Microsoft Defender integration to police AI agent access", "summary": "Portnox, a cloud-native access control company, announced an integration with Microsoft Corp.'s Defender to govern AI agents and other nonhuman identities accessing corporate networks, applications, and infrastructure. The integration adds to existing support for CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and SentinelOne Inc., allowing any of the three to police AI agent access.", "body_md": "# Portnox adds Microsoft Defender integration to police AI agent access\n\n[SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com)\n\nCloud-native access control company Portnox today unveiled expanded capabilities aimed at governing the [artificial intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) agents and other nonhuman identities now logging in to corporate networks, applications and infrastructure. The new piece is an integration with Microsoft Corp.’s Defender. Portnox had already wired in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and SentinelOne Inc. Any of the three can […]\n\nThe post [Portnox adds Microsoft Defender integration to police AI agent access](https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-agent-access/) appeared first on [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[AI Agent](/glossary/ai-agent)\n\nAn autonomous AI system that can perceive its environment, make decisions, and take actions to achieve goals.\n\n[Artificial Intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence)\n\nThe science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-agent-access", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-age-f11w", "published_at": "2026-08-18 13:00:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 14:11:31.062311+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Portnox", "Microsoft Corp.", "Defender", "CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.", "SentinelOne Inc."], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-agent-access", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-agent-access.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-agent-access.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portnox-adds-microsoft-defender-integration-to-police-ai-agent-access.jsonld"}}