Microsoft Entra Agent ID governance
Govern AI agents and non-human identities with clear ownership, lifecycle controls, least privilege, authorization boundaries, and audit-ready evidence.
AI agents need identities you can govern
Without a governed identity model, agent access becomes difficult to control. We help ensure that every agent has a clear owner, defined authorization boundaries, and audit-ready evidence.
AI agent lifecycle needs to be governed like ordinary identities. Read more about it in the article:
The reality check
Traditional identity models were not designed for agentic AI, and non-human identities already outnumber human identities in many organizations, while governance maturity remains low.
The solution
Agents as first-class governed identities.
Each agent needs a defined identity model that separates what the agent is allowed to be, how it runs, and who it acts for.
That means defining clear identity patterns and agent blueprints for approved designs, runtime identities for execution, and delegated user context where needed.
Entra Agent ID In Practice
Microsoft frames agent adoption as a lifecycle where governance and security come before build and operate.
What we deliver
A Microsoft Entra operating model for agent identity governance
To govern agentic AI safely, organizations need an identity-first governance model that treats agents as governed non-human identities with clear ownership, lifecycle responsibility, and authorization boundaries.
Agent identity governance design
We define a practical governance model that treats AI agents as governed non-human identities with ownership, lifecycle responsibility, and authorization boundaries.
Conditional Access Policy Design
Where supported, we design access policies that reflect how agents are created, invoked, and operated across environments.
Privileged owner and admin controls
The humans around the agent ecosystem matter. We help protect agent owners, makers, platform administrators, and privileged operators with controls such as PIM, MFA, device trust, hardened admin paths, and role separation.
Authorization and access boundaries
We define what agents can do, where they can act, and whether actions should use delegated or application permissions. This helps reduce over-permissioning and makes agent behavior easier to govern and investigate.
Lifecycle and control gates
We establish create, change, operate, review, and retire gates to prevent unmanaged, orphaned, or over-permissioned agent identities from accumulating across the environment.
Risk and audit evidence pack
We capture the identity, permission, ownership, lifecycle, and activity signals needed to support security operations, governance reviews, and audit evidence.
Assess your environment
Fortytwo reviews your Microsoft Entra environment, agent landscape, identity governance model, privileged access controls, and relevant AI platforms such as Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry.
Then we define a target identity model, including agent identity patterns.
Next, we design the governance blueprint and define the control gates.
Finally, we support implementation and the operating model adoption in your environment.
FAQ
Nominated business and technical owners for your agents, access to your Microsoft Entra environment and relevant IAM tooling, and participation in design workshops and review sessions.
In supported scenarios, Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry can provision and manage agent identities in Microsoft Entra. We help bring those agents under a clear ownership, authorization, and governance model.
Authorization for an agent’s actions is decided at the identity and access layer, not by trusting instructions in the prompt. It is the difference between a control and a suggestion.
No. It extends your existing identity governance approach to cover agent identities as well, while also protecting the human administrators and owners around them.
Book a call
Book a discovery call directly with Harri Jaakkonen
Principal Security Engineer:
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Every agent needs an identity.
