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Identity governance on WindowsForum.com covers the policies, tools, and operational practices that keep Microsoft Entra ID, Windows, and Microsoft 365 environments secure and compliant. Discussions focus on Entra Tenant Governance reaching general availability, the retirement of the memberOf rule operator in dynamic groups, and the need for specialized management platforms to handle hybrid Active Directory, privileged roles, and access reviews. The tag also explores identity boundaries in Edge browser sign-in, governance of agentic AI actions in Copilot Studio, and the role of cybersecurity leadership in accounting firms. Common themes include access control, lifecycle management, and balancing convenience with security in enterprise IT.
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    Keeper Connector Adds Secrets Management to Azure Logic Apps

    This week’s identity and information-security announcements have one operational thread for Windows and enterprise administrators: vendors are moving controls closer to the identities and automation accounts that already sit inside Microsoft environments. The concrete changes range from a new...
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    Factory AI Expands Active Directory Identity Debt

    Manufacturers deploying AI assistants, predictive-maintenance platforms, or agentic workflows should treat each new connection as an identity-governance project before it becomes a production-system access problem. A Manufacturing Business Technology analysis published August 19 argues that...
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    Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance Reaches GA August 3

    Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance reached general availability on August 3, 2026, giving organizations a supported control plane for finding and governing related Entra tenants. But the timing matters: Petri’s August 11 report describes the product as newly launched, while Microsoft’s own public...
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    Entra memberOf Rules Freeze Dynamic Groups on November 3

    Microsoft will retire the public-preview memberOf rule operator in Microsoft Entra ID on November 3, 2026. Any dynamic membership group, dynamic administrative unit, or Entitlement Management auto-assignment policy still using it will stop recalculating after that date, leaving its membership or...
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    9 Best Microsoft Entra ID Management Tools for 2026

    Microsoft Entra ID has become the identity control plane for Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and a growing share of enterprise applications, but operating it securely now extends far beyond creating accounts and enforcing multifactor authentication. Hybrid Active Directory estates, contractors...
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    Teams Event Passcodes: Verified Email Checks for Anonymous External Presenters

    Microsoft Teams has launched one-time email passcodes for anonymous external presenters in Teams events, a desktop feature listed on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap as generally available in April 2026 and last updated on July 7, 2026. The change gives Teams administrators and event organizers a new...
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    Agentic AI on Windows: Delegated Automation Risks and Governance

    Agentic AI is the technology industry’s current shorthand for software that can plan, use tools, make decisions, and carry out multi-step tasks on a person’s behalf, and by mid-2026 it has moved from research demos into consumer assistants, enterprise copilots, and developer workflows. The...
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    Accounting Firm CISOs: Cybersecurity Leaders Defending Client Trust

    Accounting firms in the United States are elevating cybersecurity leaders such as Jim Nagata, Amy Bogac, Steve Jackson, Thomas Walch, Mike Reterstorf, and Megan Shirey as client trust increasingly depends on secure systems, resilient infrastructure, regulatory fluency, and credible risk...
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    Control Google Sign-In in Edge (July 2026): Pilot First, Permit Narrowly

    Your organization should allow Google sign-in in Microsoft Edge in July 2026 only for user groups where Google identity materially improves adoption, while keeping browser sync, profile creation, and unsupported account behavior controlled through Edge policies rather than treating the change as...
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    Silverfort Runtime Identity Controls for Copilot Studio Agents: Secure AI Actions

    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...
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    • ai agent governance ai agent security copilot studio identity and access identity and access management identity governance microsoft copilot studio microsoft entra id runtime authorization runtime enforcement runtime identity
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    Microsoft Agentic Enterprise Platform: Govern AI Agents Across M365, Azure, and Security

    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...
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    • agentic ai ai agents cloud security email security enterprise governance enterprise platforms enterprise security entra identity github automation identity governance it governance microsoft 365 microsoft 365 administration microsoft 365 security microsoft azure microsoft security windows ai
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    CoreView Microsoft 365 Governance for HALO: Identity, Delegation, Licensing at Scale

    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...
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    Saviynt: Identity Control Plane for AI Agents and Enterprise Security

    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...
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    JBS Japan DX Playbook: Microsoft Cloud, Identity Governance, and AI Agents

    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...
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    Zero Trust for AI: Secure Agents with Identity, Least Privilege & Discipline

    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...
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    Identity Governance for Zero Trust: Beyond Compliance to Continuous Access Control

    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...
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    Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7: Governing Enterprise Agentic AI at Scale

    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...
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    Agentic AI: Redefining the Cyber Threat Surface for Defenders

    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...
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    Cenibra Modernizes Identity Governance with Entra ID Governance and Automation

    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...
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    Okta Agent Discovery: Securing Shadow AI with Identity Governance

    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...
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