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An ITmedia writer argues that operating AI agents within companies requires a separate identity for each agent and precise limits on its permissions, rather than giving it the user’s own account. Incidents involving data deletion, token leaks, and instruction-injection risks show why recording an agent’s identity must be combined with restricting what it can do.
Through Foundry Control Plane, Microsoft provides an operational and governance layer for AI agents, combining tracing, evaluation, runtime controls, identity, security, and fleet management. The product supports agents built within Microsoft Foundry, as well as agents from other systems through the AI gateway and OpenTelemetry.