AI has changed the face of the attack surface. It has changed how attackers advance and how we defend systems. And it changes the way that Boards must think about the intersection of AI adoption, identity security, and recovery.
Your business leaders are racing to adopt generative and agentic AI to move faster and unlock new efficiencies. As your business bets more on agents, it bets more on your identity fabric. Use this checklist to be sure you’re ready.
True cyber resilience doesn’t begin with recovery. It starts much earlier, through stronger visibility, tighter control, and—crucially—identity resilience that enables the organization to correct issues before they became business-disrupting events.
AI agents aren’t just code running quietly in the background. They’re code with agency, wrapped in identity, carrying permissions, making decisions, and crossing boundaries on behalf of someone or something else. Learn how to avoid some simple but important misconfigurations as your organization begins adopting Agent ID at scale.
In the previous chapter of our guide to protecting agent identities, you learned about and practiced using Microsoft’s Agent Registry. In this Practice checkpoint, follow the steps to verify three agent identity authentication flows in Entra ID.
In the third hands-on practice session in our series on understanding and preventing Entra ID identity attacks, you’ll learn how Microsoft’s Agent Registry works by walking through the steps of registering a new agent identity.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Chapter 5 of Understanding and Preventing Entra ID Agent Identity Attacks: A Comprehensive Guide. To review previous chapters and practice lessons, start here. While we were writing this blog, the registry blade was removed from the Entra portal. Now the registry is part of the Agent…
In this Practice Checkpoint—part of our comprehensive Guide to Preventing Entra ID Identity Attacks—you'll walk through the steps to wire up the permission model for an agent identity in the same way it appears in real deployments.