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SANS Leadership Summit Session: Are You Ready for AI Agents?

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Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier

Over 80% of the Fortune 500 have active agents built using low-code/no-code tools.1 With agent use and opportunities expanding, now is the time to put foundational controls in place. Successful adoption is grounded in an organization's ability to observe, govern, and secure their AI transformation. At the 2026 SANS Leadership Summit Microsoft shared learnings from the latest Cyber Pulse: An AI Security Report, diving into trends around AI agent growth and some of the risks that organizations should consider. The session covers the core pillars required to secure the next wave of AI adoption: continuous observability to understand how agents operate in real time, governance frameworks to control their creation and use, and security strategies grounded in Zero Trust principles. Without these controls and governance, unsanctioned or poorly secured agents can create blind spots that attackers may exploit. Those that embed security early rather than retrofitting controls later are better positioned to safely scale AI, reduce risk, and sustain long-term innovation.

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Watch the full SANS Leadership Summit session to learn how to apply these controls to agents and how to unify business, IT, and security teams to create a resilient foundation for AI.

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  • Human-agent teams are growing and AI agents are scaling faster than some companies can see them.
  • Microsoft is seeing agent growth across every industry.
  • Discussion on the new opportunities presented by AI agents, as well as some of the risks.
  • How rapid deployment of agents can outpace security and compliance controls, creating a governance gap.
  • The interplay between these 3 pillars and the role each plays.
  • Importance of observability: what agents exist, how are they being used, and who is using them.
  • How governance turns insight into enforceable controls.
  • Agents need the same protection as humans and this can be done using Zero Trust principles.
  • Tips on how to get started with managing and securing AI agents.
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    Based on Microsoft first-party telemetry measuring agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio or Microsoft Agent Builder that were in use during the last 28 days of November 2025.

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