Microsoft takes Agent 365 out of preview as shadow AI becomes an enterprise threat

Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge around autonomous AI is no longer theoretical but operational and urgent.The product, first announced at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in November, positions itself as a unified control plane that lets enterprise IT and security teams observe, govern, and secure AI agents wherever they run: inside Microsoft’s own ecosystem, on third-party cloud platforms like AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud, on employee…