Practical perspectives on securing the enterprise as identities, copilots and autonomous agents increasingly operate side by side.
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Securing AI applications, copilots and agents as organisations move from experimentation to production.
How identity, authentication, Zero Trust and access governance are evolving in an AI-enabled enterprise.
Agent identity, permissions, tools, data access, lifecycle, monitoring and governance.
Protecting sensitive information as AI changes how people and systems discover and use organisational data.
The security, governance and operating-model questions organisations should answer before scaling AI.
Practical observations across technologies such as Entra, Purview, Defender, Copilot and the wider Microsoft security ecosystem.
Reflections from projects, research, speaking engagements and conversations with security and technology practitioners.
A lot of the AI conversation focuses on what we can build.
I'm equally interested in what happens after we build it.
And how do we introduce the governance needed to answer those questions without making security the reason innovation stops?
These are the kinds of questions I explore here.
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I'm Cynthia Akiotu, a cybersecurity architect and Microsoft MVP in Security.
My work and research sit at the intersection of identity, data security, AI security, governance and agentic systems.
I write about the practical challenges organisations face as humans, applications, copilots and autonomous agents increasingly operate within the same digital environment.
I also speak at conferences and technical communities on cybersecurity, identity and securing enterprise AI.
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