This TLDR covers Accenture’s $4.2 billion cybersecurity deal to buy Dragos, runZero, and NetRise for OT security, plus the hidden risks of free VPNs and streaming apps turning into residential proxies. It also looks at Cisco’s phased move to cloud SSE, Amazon’s push against human-in-the-loop AI governance, OpenAI’s new spend controls, the launch of enterprise-managed OAuth for MCP, Microsoft’s messy AI rollout, and an internal Copilot-powered analytics agent.

Zscaler unveiled a zero trust platform to secure autonomous AI agents’ data access, communications and device activity. It adds an AI Broker for agent-to-agent and data calls, endpoint AI threat detection, an AI Access Graph for mapping identities and data flows, and expanded AI Protect controls. This aims to give each AI agent its own identity, permissions and real-time monitoring.