3 posts tagged with "Security"

The pitch is intoxicating. Open Microsoft 365 Copilot, describe in two sentences what you want, upload a couple of files, and thirty seconds later you have an agent. Your own little AI, wired into your SharePoint, ready to answer questions and do things. 🪄

So of course everyone wants one. The business wants a chatbot for the knowledge base. The pro-maker wants a flow that validates quotes. The developer wants a multi-agent orchestrator with their own model. Three people, three times the word "agent", three completely different products.

And here is the uncomfortable part: letting all of them just... build one, whenever they like, is a genuinely bad idea. 🧑‍🔬

You did everything right. Conditional Access requires a compliant device before anyone touches company data. You tested it, it worked, you closed the ticket, you felt good about yourself. ☕

Then one Tuesday you spot a device in the sign-in logs you have never seen before. Personal laptop. No management. No Intune. Nothing. And right next to it, in cheerful little green letters: Compliant.

Wait. What.

Let’s face it: Break-the-Glass accounts are either your tenant's safety net — or a dangerous liability waiting to be forgotten.

And while many admins know they should have one, far fewer know how to do it right. Across tenants. Securely. Consistently.