identity governance

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...

Microsoft’s Foundry Agent Service has entered the stateful era: the platform now offers a managed, long‑term memory capability in public preview that automatically extracts, consolidates, and retrieves persistent context for agents — turning short‑lived chatbots into continuous, context‑aware...

Microsoft’s case for a near-term workplace revolution is no longer a thought experiment: the company’s product leaders now argue that AI agents will act as digital coworkers, enabling small teams to run global campaigns in days, accelerate scientific discovery, and shore up stressed healthcare...

November’s Copilot Studio refresh — seeded with major reveals from Microsoft Ignite 2025 and a steady stream of feature rollouts — marks a clear inflection point: Copilot Studio is moving from experimental automation to an enterprise-grade platform for identity-bound, auditable AI agents that...

Veza’s new AI Agent Security product arrives at a moment when enterprises are rapidly delegating more authority to autonomous software — and with that delegation comes a new set of identity, access, and governance challenges that traditional IAM wasn’t built to handle. Background Veza, an...

Veza’s new AI Agent Security productcodifies a practical — and urgently needed — approach to securing agentic AI by treating AI agents as first-class identities, offering unified discovery, access governance, and least-privilege controls across major cloud and model platforms. Background Agentic...