Microsoft's Agent 365 helps you spot risky AI agents before they cause trouble - here's how

Microsoft has a new centralized dashboard that lets IT teams track AI agents' visibility, permissions, and security risks to prevent them from becoming insider threats to corporate systems.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Machine identities are multiplying far faster than human users
• Agent 365 gives IT visibility into enterprise AI agent activity
• Microsoft 365 E7 combines Copilot, security, and agent governance

AI can seem exciting, especially when it comes to the productivity improvements AI agents provide in the corporate world. But what's rapidly dawning on company and IT leaders is that AI agents are also becoming the ultimate insider threat.

In ZDNET's Special Feature: Cybersecurity in the New AI Era, I outlined how this threat is growing by leaps and bounds. In particular, I showed a statistic that, on average, 82 machine identities (often with high-level ...