Microsoft says ungoverned AI agents could become corporate 'double agents.' Its fix costs $99 a month.

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise 7, two products designed to bring security and governance to the rapidly growing population of AI agents operating inside the world's largest organizations. Both become available on May 1st, alongside Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which expands the company's agentic AI capabilities and adds model diversity from both OpenAI and Anthropic.

Agent 365, priced at $15 per user per month, serves as what Microsoft calls the "control plane for agents" — a centralized system for IT, security, and business teams to observe, govern, and secure AI agents across an enterprise. Microsoft 365 Enterprise 7, dubbed the "Frontier Worker Suite," bundles Agent 365 with Microsoft 365 Copilot and the company's most advanced security stack into a single $99-per-user-per-month license.

The timing is deliberate. AI agents have crossed from experimental prototypes into operational infrastructure, but the ...