Session Abstract

You might have picked up on Entra Agent ID or Agent 365, and if you have been using Copilot, Azure Foundry or similar AI services in your tenant, you might already have thousands of agents in your organization. Where do you go from here? I work as an Identity Architect and have worked extensively with governing and securing user identities, privileged identities & workload identities in my company's and my customers' tenants, now I'm working on applying the same lifecycle management, security and governance controls for agent identities. Join me in this session for a practical approach to discover, protect and govern ALL identities in your tenant using the last updates for Entra Agent ID and Agent 365 with Security and Governance solutions in Microsoft Entra.

Note to event organizers

This is a new session I'm developing for 2026 and beyond, where I will apply much of the same principles and solutions for lifecycle management, governance and security for agent identities as I do for user, privileged and workload identities. Main learnings will be for the attendees to apply Agent ID in Entra with its components, and using Microsoft Agent 365, based on sound principles for IAM ang IGA, while understanding the architecture and similarities/differences with traditional identities

Jan Vidar Elven

Jan Vidar Elven is a Senior Cloud Platform & Security Architect working at Microsoft Partner Evidi AS in Norway. He is a Microsoft MVP in Security, an active speaker and blogger, and has more than 25 years’ experience inside IT infrastructure management and architecting solutions, working with Cloud & Datacenter, specializing in Azure, Microsoft Entra, Active Directory, Enterprise Mobility, Identity & Access Management, Identity Governance, Service Management, Operations Management and Automation cross On-Premise and Azure environments.

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