Tackle your AI security challenges
As AI innovation speeds up, organizations are confronting big, new security challenges.
Agent sprawl and resource access
1.3 billion is the projected number of agents businesses will have by 20281
Data leaks and oversharing
80% of business leaders cite data leaks via AI as a top concern.2
Emerging AI threats and vulnerabilities
According to Gartner®, “Through 2029, over 50% of successful cybersecurity attacks against AI agents will exploit access control issues, using direct or indirect prompt injection as an attack vector.” 3
Evolving AI regulations
55% of leaders lack understanding of how AI is and will be regulated and are seeking guidance.2
CAPABILITIES
Comprehensive AI security across identity, data, threat protection, and compliance
- Get visibility and govern access for your AI and agent estate to prevent security risks.
- Secure and manage access for users, AI apps, agents, and resources using risk-based conditional access, strong authentication, and real-time traffic filtering.
- Securely manage agent activity and development with unified visibility and control.
- Gain visibility into data risks associated with your AI apps and agents and protect sensitive data from overexposure.
- Prevent sensitive data from being shared to AI apps and agents and enforce guardrails for how AI uses organizational data to generate responses or perform tasks.
- Understand, control, and block suspicious AI interactions using custom policies to protect sensitive data.
- Block malicious destinations, control server access, and stop harmful activities like prompt injection attacks.
- Detect known and emerging threats targeting agents directly and enable a rapid response with a complete view of the cyberattack chain and prioritized investigation and response at the incident level.
- Use AI-powered intelligence to actively block malicious traffic and prompt injection attacks and prevent both prompt manipulation and data exfiltration as they occur. Agents are protected instantly against many emerging threats.
- Get visibility and control over your AI environment for consistent security and governance across platforms and workloads.
- Meet global regulatory requirements and industry standards for audits, retention, transparency, accountability, and data protection.
- Enforce data residency, encryption, and compliance controls to align with global and regional privacy regulations.
Scenarios
A secure foundation for your AI innovations
Extend security to your AI apps and agents—whether you built them using Microsoft tools or our ecosystem partners.
CUSTOMER EVIDENCE
PRODUCTS
Unified security. AI empowered.
Microsoft Agent 365
Observe, secure, and govern agents at scale across your organization with Agent 365, the control plane for agents.
Microsoft Defender
Strengthen your security posture and protect against emerging AI threats and vulnerabilities with unified visibility across your AI estate.
Microsoft Entra
Secure access for employees, customers, and agent identities to AI, apps, and resources anywhere.
Microsoft Purview
Discover and investigate data risks across AI apps and agents to prevent oversharing and leakage. Streamline security, compliance, and regulatory reporting.
Microsoft Foundry
Build and deploy AI with built-in security and simplify risk management and compliance with automated evaluations and reporting.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Stay ahead of insider risks, reduce data loss and oversharing, and govern data use in Copilot with Microsoft Purview.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Build and customize AI agents with security and governance at the core, including access controls, data protection policies, and jailbreak defense.
Industry Recognition
- Leader in the 2025-2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms
- Overall leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense (GAD)
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Agent 365, generally available on May 1, 2026, enables organizations to observe, govern and secure AI agents at scale.
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- [1]Microsoft Work Trend Index Survey 2025
- [2]First Annual Generative AI study: Business Rewards vs. Security Risks, Q3 2023, ISMG, N=400
- [3]Gartner, How to Secure Custom-Built AI Agents, Dionisio Zumerle, Jeremy D’Hoinne, 17 March 2025,
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