identity governance

Silverfort on June 8, 2026 launched an early-access integration that applies real-time identity and access controls to AI agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio, evaluating each agent action before it executes across enterprise systems. The announcement is narrow in product terms but broad in...

Microsoft is pitching an integrated “agentic enterprise” platform that ties GitHub, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft IQ, Agent 365, Entra, Purview, Defender, Fabric, Teams, and Microsoft 365 into a governed system for building, running, securing, and improving AI agents across business operations...

CoreView has deployed its Microsoft 365 governance and security platform across The HALO Trust’s operations in 36 countries and territories, including Ukraine, with Cyber Vigilance supporting implementation for a humanitarian organisation managing thousands of users in volatile field conditions...

Saviynt’s latest message is not just about shipping another identity product; it is about redefining where enterprise security begins in an AI-native world. In a new interview, Chief Product Officer Vibhuti Sinha argues that identity is becoming the control plane for autonomous systems...

JBS’s story captures a broader shift now underway in Japan’s enterprise technology landscape: digital transformation is no longer a side project, but a competitive necessity shaped by demographics, cloud adoption, and the rise of AI. In the company’s own telling, its edge comes from combining...

Applying security fundamentals to AI is becoming the defining CISO problem of 2026, and Microsoft’s latest guidance is a useful reminder that the right response is not panic but discipline. In a March 31, 2026 Security blog post, Microsoft Deputy CISOs argue that AI should be treated as...

The idea that identity governance is “just compliance” is rapidly becoming obsolete. In Microsoft’s latest framing, governance is now one of the operational foundations of Zero Trust, because access decisions have to be continuously justified, time-bound, and revocable across cloud, hybrid, and...

Microsoft has taken a major step toward making “Frontier Transformation” — the company’s phrase for large‑scale, agentic AI adoption across enterprises — feel operationally realistic for CIOs and CISOs by announcing Agent 365 as a unified control plane for AI agents and a new Microsoft 365 E7...

Microsoft’s latest threat briefing — published March 6, 2026 — and a follow-up interview on March 8, 2026, make a blunt, unglossed point: attackers are already using agentic AI to outsource the tedious but mission‑critical work of running cyber campaigns, and that shift changes how defenders...

Teramind’s latest announcement promises to give enterprises a single control plane for the messy, fast-moving world of autonomous AI agents — a commercial attempt to turn the “agentic enterprise” from a risk-prone experiment into an auditable, enforceable platform. According to a report...

Cenibra’s decision to replace a decade‑old SAP Identity Management deployment with Microsoft Entra ID Governance did more than avoid an end‑of‑maintenance cliff—it rebuilt the company’s identity control plane around automation, risk‑driven decisions, and a modern Microsoft ecosystem. In Wave 1...

TQA’s move into an “agentic” identity and deeper integrations with Microsoft and ServiceNow is less a marketing pivot than a tactical response to a persistent challenge: how to turn generative AI pilots into dependable, governed, production-grade services that actually change business outcomes...

Okta’s new Agent Discovery capability brings identity-first visibility to a problem that has quietly become an enterprise-scale risk: employees and automation builders creating unsanctioned AI agents that bind to corporate data using OAuth and service credentials, often outside IT governance...

Linux still beats Windows 11 in a handful of quietly significant ways — not because it has prettier UI animations or a bigger marketing budget, but because of fundamentals: cost, hardware fit, user control, the absence of baked‑in AI agents, and a privacy model that treats telemetry as optional...

The arrival of AI agents inside enterprise environments has created a paradox for modern security teams: simultaneous promise and peril. Microsoft’s recent Cyber Pulse messaging and related security briefings argue that agentic AI—autonomous, tool-enabled assistants that can read, act, and...

Three years after the shockwaves that followed ChatGPT’s debut, AI agents have moved from curiosities into core business infrastructure — and that shift demands a practical, security-first playbook for every IT team, compliance officer and Windows admin who plans to let agents touch corporate...

AI agents have moved from experimental curiosities to everyday tools inside Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows — and that shift forces a reorientation of enterprise security where Entra ID becomes the new control plane. Background: why identity is the perimeter now The modern AI agent is not a...

Microsoft's decision to move Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to general availability marks a pivotal moment for enterprise agent architectures: Azure now provides a first‑class, identity‑aware, serverless path for hosting MCP servers with built‑in authentication, a...

Enterprise access decisions are quietly shifting from the back end to the moment a user opens a browser, taps a mobile app, or completes a hiring workflow—and that timing shift is changing how security teams must think about identity, policy and governance. Background Organizations have long...

Windows is quietly shifting from an application platform into a managed runtime for autonomous AI agents — and that shift changes everything administrators must assume about identity, data boundaries, endpoint security, and operational playbooks for a Microsoft 365 tenant. Microsoft now offers a...