Govern AI agents from creation to retirement
Govern AI agents across their full lifecycle — from creation to production operation and retirement — with clear ownership, identity, permissions, lifecycle controls, monitoring and human oversight.
Who this service is for
- Organizations where agents are being created across multiple teams
- Security, identity and platform teams accountable for agent risk
- Leaders asking how to control and operate agents safely at scale
Typical challenges
- No central inventory, unclear ownership and unclear business purpose
- Excessive permissions, uncontrolled connectors and no production approval
- No monitoring, lifecycle management, retirement process or escalation
What the engagement addresses
The core question: “We are creating AI agents. How do we control and operate them safely at scale?” The engagement establishes inventory, ownership, controls and an operating model for the full agent lifecycle.
Before an agent moves to production, ownership, permissions, data access, evaluation, monitoring and human escalation should all be explicitly defined.
Scope
- Agent inventory, ownership, business purpose and classification
- Lifecycle, development controls, testing, evaluation and production-readiness criteria
- Identity, permissions, data access, connectors and environments
- Monitoring, observability, cost visibility, human approval, escalation, incident management and retirement
The goal is not to slow agents down. It is to make agent sprawl visible and manageable, with guardrails and human oversight that let agents move to production safely.
What you leave with
- An agent inventory model and agent governance framework
- A lifecycle model, ownership model and production-readiness checklist
- A control matrix, risk findings, remediation priorities and operating roadmap
Relevant Microsoft technologies
Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender and the Power Platform admin and monitoring capabilities are used to inventory, secure and operate agents.