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Securing AI Agent Identities in Microsoft Entra: Governance, Conditional Access and Least Privilege in 2026
Copilot and low-code agents now get their own identities in Microsoft Entra. This guide covers Entra Agent ID — the sponsor/owner model, blueprints, Conditional Access and ID Protection for agents, least-privilege connector governance, and the lifecycle controls that stop agent sprawl — in the order a security team should apply them.
Entra ID Conditional Access Gaps: 10 Misconfigurations That Quietly Defeat MFA
The most common Entra ID Conditional Access gaps are policies that exclude too much, sit in report-only forever, ignore legacy authentication, skip device and risk signals, and leave break-glass accounts unmanaged. Here's how to find and close each one.
Zero Trust Architecture: The Practitioner's Cheat Sheet and Implementation Guide
A complete, practical reference for Zero Trust security — the NIST SP 800-207 principles, the five CISA pillars (Identity, Devices, Networks, Applications & Workloads, Data), the four-stage maturity model, a control-by-control cheat sheet, a Microsoft-stack mapping, a phased rollout roadmap, and the mistakes that quietly undermine most deployments.