OVERVIEW
Take charge of agent sprawl
Get observability and access controls for agents. Govern agent identity sponsorship, access, and lifecycle. Block access for risky agents and to risky resources.
- Assign agent identities at scale so every agent has a built-in agent identity that will enable authentication, policy enforcement, and integration with your existing organizational policies.
- Keep your agent fleet under control with lifecycle management and IT-defined guardrails for both agents and the people who create and manage them.
- Reduce risk of breaches with adaptive conditional access that blocks agents with anomalous activity or risky users. Prevent agent access to unauthorized or malicious public resources with traffic inspection.
- Microsoft Entra Agent ID is part of Microsoft Agent 365, the unified control plane for security, IT, and business teams to confidently observe, secure, and govern AI agents at scale.
SCENARIOS
Secure access for agents with familiar Microsoft Entra controls
Extend Microsoft Entra capabilities in the admin center to manage agent sprawl, gain transparency to agent actions, and prevent attacks.
Unify agent identity provisioning, metadata, and visibility
Assign identities to agents, view in a consolidated registry across your org, and manage agent metadata including capabilities, tasks, logs, and standard protocols.
Ensure agents help maintain security and compliance posture
Enforce real-time policies for agent access to resources, automatically block risky agents, and define granular access control policies based on security attributes.
Bring agents into familiar identity governance processes
Automate governance from deployment to expiration, ensure sponsors are assigned and maintained, and enforce access assignments as intentional, auditable, and time bound.
Detect and block threats by flagging suspicious agent interactions
Detect and flag unusual or unauthorized activities, trace and block agents with compromised tokens, and automatically remediate compromised agents.
Get network visibility and unified access policies
Log agent network activity for audits and threat detection. Apply web categorization to APIs and MCP servers. Restrict file uploads and downloads. Automatically block malicious destinations.
Market landscape
Learn about the growth and impact of agents in large organizations
As organizations rapidly adopt agents for the workplace, expectations and pressures also increase. Key concerns include agent discovery, governance, authorization, and risk reduction.1
42%
of large organizations have deployed agents.
76%
of leaders expect employees to manage agents in 2 to 3 years.
55%
of the workforce accepts or actively embraces AI agents.
78%
of organizations are concerned about cybersecurity for agents.
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Frequently asked questions
- Register, manage, govern, and protect agents and their access to resources just like you do with your employees. Our purpose-built, secure-by-default solution extends the same controls that you already use—conditional access, lifecycle management, access governance, and network traffic—so you can confidently scale agent adoption and enable secure collaboration of agents with your employees and other agents.
- Agents are digital teammates and AI-powered digital entities that can autonomously perform tasks, make decisions, and access resources. Microsoft Entra treats agents as first-class identities, enabling secure authentication, lifecycle governance, and access control to protect sensitive data and systems.
- AI agents need identity and access management (IAM) to ensure secure authentication, enforce least-privilege access, and maintain governance across their lifecycle. Without IAM, agents can become invisible, over-permissioned, or vulnerable to misuse, posing risks to sensitive data, systems, and compliance. Microsoft Entra enables centralized control and protection of agents for your organization.
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- [1]Source: KPMG AI Quarterly Pulse Survey, September 2025. Survey results based on 130 U.S.-based C-suite and business leaders representing organizations with annual revenue of $1 billion or more.
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