🚀 Microsoft Entra: What’s New in Secure Access on the AI Frontier
AI is accelerating everything from productivity to cyberattacks. These are the major updates introduced to Microsoft Entra to help organizations move fast with AI while staying secure.
Here are the highlights. 👇
🔐 1. Manage & Govern AI Agents
AI agents are multiplying across every enterprise, often without visibility or controls.
Expanding the public preview of Microsoft Entra Agent ID so organizations can:
✔️ Enforce least privilege automatically
✔️ Govern agent lifecycles
✔️ Discover every agent in the environment
✔️ Block risky/malicious destinations and access attempts
This gives AI agents the same enterprise-grade identity protections as your workforce.
🤖 2. Introducing Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft Entra Agent ID is now the identity foundation for Microsoft Agent 365, a new enterprise control plane for AI agents.
Agent 365 is open by design, supporting Microsoft, third-party, & custom agents with:
a) Entra for identity & secure access
b) Purview for data governance
c) Defender for threat protection
d) Msft 365, Power Apps & Power BI to accelerate human–agent workflows
🌐 3. Secure Workforce Access to AI
AI adoption is surging, & so is Shadow AI.
Microsoft expanded MS Entra Internet Access into a Secure Web & AI Gateway that can:
🔒 Block malicious prompts (prompt injection protection)
📁 Prevent sensitive data uploads to unsanctioned AI
🕵️ Detect unsanctioned AI tools
🚫 Block unauthorized MCP servers
A single policy now protects every AI app, every model, & every agent.
🛡️ 4. Stop AI-Enhanced Cyberattacks
Identity attacks are up 32% in 2025. AI-generated phishing now has a 54% click-through rate.
To counter this, simplifying & strengthening passwordless security:
🔑 Synced passkeys (Apple, Google & others)
👥 Passkey profiles by group
⚠️ Auto-remediation of risky, compromised sessions
📱 Secure, self-service account recovery with Verified ID Face Check
Security & usability without compromise.
🤝 5. Use AI to Defend With Speed
Security teams need AI just as much as attackers do.
A growing set of Microsoft Entra agents (powered by Security Copilot) now help you:
🌟 Optimize Conditional Access
🌟 Automate access reviews
🌟Remediate identity risks in minutes
🌟Govern app sprawl & shadow apps
Security Copilot is available to all Microsoft 365 E5 customers.
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