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Microsoft Copilot Studio Governance and Security for Practitioners

Secure Architecture, Agent Identity, Data Protection, Runtime Defense, Monitoring, and Enterprise Governance

5 parts · 15 chapters · 7 appendices

About the book

A practitioner reference for securing agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio, organised around an agent authority model: identity, knowledge, tools, permissions, autonomy, actions, impact and evidence. It covers environment governance, agent identity, data protection, tools and MCP, prompt injection and excessive agency, runtime defence, detection and incident response, and governance at enterprise scale, with a working artifact for each chapter.

Written for: Practitioners who build, secure, operate or govern Copilot Studio agents, including in government and regulated environments.

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Syllabus

Part I. Foundations of the Agentic Enterprise

  1. The Foundations of the Agentic Enterprise
  2. Security and Governance Fundamentals

Part II. Secure Architecture and Lifecycle

  1. Environment Governance and Secure ALM
  2. Agent Identity, Authentication, and Authorization
  3. Data Security, Knowledge, Grounding, and DLP
  4. Tools, Actions, Connectors, Power Automate, and MCP

Part III. Adversarial Security and Runtime Defense

  1. Prompt Injection, Jailbreaking, and Agent Manipulation
  2. Excessive Agency, Autonomy, and Workflow Integrity
  3. Runtime Security and Threat Protection

Part IV. Security Operations and Assurance

  1. Inventory, Monitoring, Audit, and Detection
  2. AI Incident Response and Forensics

Part V. Enterprise Governance at Scale

  1. Enterprise Agent Governance and Microsoft Agent 365
  2. Government, Regulated, and GCC Deployments
  3. Secure Reference Architectures
  4. Implementation Roadmap for Practitioners

Appendices

  • Copilot Studio AI Security Engineering Checklist
  • Agent Threat Modeling Worksheet
  • Security Test Catalog
  • Framework Crosswalk
  • Microsoft Learn Source Map
  • Glossary
  • References

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