Microsoft Launches Agent 365: Enhanced Governance and Security for AI in the Workplace
November 18, 2025
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Microsoft unveils Agent 365, a governance layer for AI agents in the workplace, designed to extend IT-style controls to AI-powered assistants.
The overarching emphasis is on unifying security across the software supply chain and multicloud ecosystems to improve resilience, speed, and secure-by-default development.
The toolset includes real-time security monitoring of agent activity and data flows to counter vulnerabilities like prompt injection attacks.
Control Plane offers a unified view of agents across Foundry, Entra, Copilot Studio, and external platforms, with real-time tracing, policy, identity, and Defender/Purview integrations.
A Threat Hunting Agent enables natural-language-based investigations, allowing analysts to conduct complex hunts without specialized query languages.
Copilot adds voice commands for mobile and desktop, enabling seamless switching between voice and text and starting conversations via vocal prompts to pull insights from meetings, emails, and files.
A unified Security Dashboard centralizes AI posture and risk across Defender, Entra, and Purview to govern agentic AI and related workflows.
The agents were announced at Ignite 2025 and are in Frontier early access for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed customers, with broader access planned for Personal, Family, and Premium subscribers.
Alongside, Microsoft introduced a new round of Copilot updates to deepen generative AI integration across Word, Excel, Teams, and other apps.
The platform aims to protect against threats and ensure agents stay within defined boundaries to reduce rogue behavior.
Code apps in Power Apps offer enterprise-grade security and lifecycle management, backed by a large connector library and integrated data layers.
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