The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents
This blog post is the third of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry.…
The first post set out the three decisions that systems rest on.
The second post took the request at runtime.
This post takes the next one: making each agent cheaper over time as i…
AI agents help compress ransomware intrusion to under 10 hours, raising stakes for CISOs
A ransomware attacker used AI agents to move through an enterprise network in less than 10 hours, according to Palo Alto Networks researchers, who estimated that similar work could have taken human operators about two weeks.…
The incident involved more than 50 techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&…
The techniques themselves were largely familiar.
The notable difference, according to Unit 42, was the use of AI agents…
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business.…
Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 compan…
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