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Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant expansion of its AI security and governance offerings, introducing new features aimed at securing the emerging "agentic workforce," where AI agents and humans work collaboratively. The announcement, made at the company’s annual Build developer conference, reflects Microsoft's commitment to addressing the growing challenges of securing AI systems from vulnerabilities like prompt injection, data leakage, and identity sprawl, while also ensuring regulatory compliance. This expansion involves integrating Microsoft Entra, Defender, and Purview directly into Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio, enabling organizations to secure AI applications and agents throughout their development lifecycle.

Leading the charge is the launch of Entra Agent ID, a new centralized solution for managing the identities of AI agents built in Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry. This system automatically assigns each agent a secure and trackable identity within Microsoft Entra, providing security teams with visibility and governance over these nonhuman actors within the enterprise. The integration extends to third-party platforms through partnerships with ServiceNow Inc. and Workday Inc., supporting identity provisioning across human resource and workforce systems. By unifying oversight of AI agents and human users within a single administrative interface, Entra Agent ID lays the groundwork for broader nonhuman identity governance across the enterprise.

In addition, Microsoft is integrating security insights from Microsoft Defender for Cloud directly into Azure AI Foundry, providing developers with AI-specific threat alerts and posture recommendations within their development environment. These alerts cover more than 15 detection types, including jailbreaks, misconfigurations, and sensitive data leakage. This integration aims to facilitate faster response to evolving threats by removing friction between development and security teams. Furthermore, Purview, Microsoft’s integrated data security, compliance, and governance platform, is receiving a new software development kit that allows developers to embed policy enforcement, auditing, and data loss prevention into AI systems, ensuring consistent data protection from development through production.

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References :

• Techmeme: Microsoft expands Entra, Defender, and Purview, embedding them directly into Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio to help organizations secure AI apps and agents (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
• SiliconANGLE: Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a major expansion of its artificial intelligence security and governance offerings with the introduction of new capabilities designed to secure the emerging “agentic workforce,†a world where AI agents and humans collaborate and work together.
• www.zdnet.com: Trusting AI agents to deal with your data is hard, and these features seek to make it easier.
• siliconangle.com: Microsoft expands AI platform security with new identity protection threat alerts and data governance

Classification:

• HashTags: #Microsoft #AI #Security
• Company: Microsoft
• Target: Enterprises
• Product: AI Platform
• Feature: AI Security
• Type: AI
• Severity: Medium