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Microsoft

10 articles on this subject.

01 7 min read

Your over-permissioned users are your over-permissioned agents

When an agent acts on behalf of a user it inherits that user's access, so your half-governed pile of human permissions becomes agent attack surface. Why agent blast radius starts upstream, with people, and how to right-size both sides of the identity ledger.

02 13 min read

Governing a LangChain agent on Azure Container Apps with Microsoft Entra Agent ID and Agent 365

Every Microsoft Graph, Entra SDK and Agent 365 SDK call needed to give a containerized LangChain agent its own identity, access control and audit trail, in the order they have to be made, and why.

03 15 min read

Governing a LangChain agent on AWS with Microsoft Entra Agent ID and Agent 365, without a single secret

The AWS, Microsoft Graph, Entra SDK and Agent 365 SDK calls that give an agent on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock a Microsoft Entra identity, access control and an audit trail in Purview and Defender, in the order they have to be made, and why.

04 5 min read

What an AI Agent Must Never Be Allowed to Do

Buried in a Microsoft Graph reference is a list of permissions that cannot be granted to an AI agent identity at all. Read backwards, it's the first enforced authority model for agents — six prohibitions worth applying to every agent platform you run, not just Entra.

05 9 min read

Understanding Azure AI Foundry Agent Identities, Blueprints, and Entra ID Object Relationships

A practical identity architecture guide for security, governance, and troubleshooting

06 8 min read

AI Red Teaming for M365 Copilot & Bing Chat Applications

These applications fall into two distinct layers — each requiring different red teaming, and both are required.

07 3 min read

The MDASH Blueprint: Defence at AI Speed

A visual blueprint of MDASH — Microsoft's Multi-Model Agentic Scanning Harness — an autonomous system that discovers, validates, and proves software vulnerabilities at AI speed. The system, not the model, is the product.

08 24 min read

AI Red Teaming: A Risk-Based Methodology for When, Why, and How

AI red teaming has emerged as a foundational security control for organizations deploying artificial intelligence — analogous to penetration testing for traditional applications, but distinct in scope, technique, and risk profile. Unlike standard security assessments, AI red teaming…

09 2 min read

Securing Enterprise AI: An Identity-First Approach

As enterprises move from AI pilots to agentic systems that act on their behalf, identity becomes the control plane. Here is how I think about securing AI agents with the same rigor we apply to human and workload identities.

10 2 min read

Using AI to Optimize SOC Operations

Security Operations Centers are drowning in alerts while the metrics that matter — mean time to detect and respond — barely move. Here is how AI-driven automation and analytics change the operational math.