By Tom Smith
Publication Date: 2025-11-19 18:08:00
Management and security of customers’ rapidly expanding fleets of AI agents were a major focus of day one of the annual Microsoft Ignite conference on Tuesday.
Major developments in the realm of management and governance include Agent 365, which the company refers to as an agent “Control Plane” as well as Foundry Control Plane for management of agentic development initiatives.
Agent 365 “helps safely scale agents across your whole company no matter where or how they’re built: agents from Microsoft, agents you create, agents from partner clouds and companies,” said Charles Lamanna, President, Business and Industry Copilot at Microsoft.
Foundry Control Plane builds on Agent 365 to give developers visibility and security over agents in the Microsoft Cloud. It provides observability, behavioral guardrails, and lifecycle management in a unified platform.
Among the wide range of security deliverables that Microsoft detailed, the company said…
