Understanding Agent 365 Hands On: Managing and Securing AI Agents with Microsoft's Graham Hosking

Graham Hosking, Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Microsoft, breaks down Agent 365, Microsoft's approach to observing, governing, and securing AI agents across multi-platform environments.

• How Agent 365 builds on existing Entra, Defender, and Purview capabilities to provide full visibility over AI agents

• Live demo of a fully autonomous LangChain agent automatically flagged for risky behaviour by Defender

• How third-party agents from Amazon, Google, Databricks, and Salesforce can be brought into a central registry

• The Agent 365 SDK and how partners like Adobe, Atlassian, and Lovable are already baking in observability

• Shadow IT monitoring for local AI agents via Defender for Endpoint

• MCP tools and plugin management for controlling end-user access

• Licensing breakdown: end-user based, one seat lights everything up, and the E5 to E7 step-up path

• Bonus demo of Morgan, a fully autonomous digital CFO with voice and avatar interaction built on LangChain

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