Governing AI Agents in Entra ID: Why Observability Comes Before Policy

Before you can govern agentic identities, you have to see them. All of them. The rise of Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Virtual Agents has quietly created a new class of identity problem. Every agent an employee builds gets its own Entra ID object - sometimes two. At scale, a large enterprise can accumulate thousands of these registrations before anyone in the security or identity team has written a single governance policy for them. The instinct is to jump straight to policy: block creation, enforce naming conventions, require manager approval.