Gives AI agents identities in Entra of their own, created from blueprints, so they fall under Conditional Access, ID Protection and governance just like users do.
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Terms in this definition
- Blueprints
Python v2 programming model objects (func.Blueprint) for splitting a function app's functions across several modules, which are then added to the main FunctionApp by calling app.register_functions().
- Conditional Access
Policy engine in Microsoft Entra ID P1 that, depending on signals such as risk or named locations, allows access subject to controls like MFA or a compliant device, or blocks it.
- Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Uses risk scores on users and sign-ins to spot, look into and fix threats to identities. Policies that respond to that risk live in Conditional Access, and a Microsoft Entra ID P2 licence is required.
- Governance
Keeping cloud deployments in line with an organisation's rules on technology, security and compliance, helped by Azure Policy, tags and resource locks.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
Related terms
- Agent identity blueprint
Template in Microsoft Entra Agent ID that holds credentials for one type of agent and obtains tokens for the agent identities created from it. Policies like Conditional Access set on it reach all those identities; Azure RBAC roles cannot be assigned to it.