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Agents don't operate in isolation. They run on infrastructure, are invoked from devices, and increasingly act as extensions of the user's work environment. As enterprises deploy agents in production workflows, how and where agents operate becomes inseparable from endpoint health and device management.
An agent invoked from an unmanaged or compromised device represents different risks than the same agent invoked from a compliant, policy-aligned endpoint. Without incorporating device posture into agent governance, organizations have a blind spot.
Unified governance
Organizations want a unified model for managing the surfaces where agents run. They don't want separate tools for device compliance and agent governance. They expect the same conditional access rules, compliance baselines, and configuration profiles to apply consistently across scenarios whether a user is opening Outlook, running a line-of-business app, or invoking an agent.
They also need assurance that agents deployed to or accessed from devices meet organizational security standards, including encryption, OS patch levels, and posture requirements.
From shadow AI to governed AI
Shadow AI is growing as agents and AI tools proliferate. Employees often adopt unsanctioned AI assistants, browser extensions, and agentic apps to work more efficiently. However, these tools can bypass the established identity, data, and security controls. As a result, corporate data can flow into AI systems that IT never evaluated, often from devices that security teams can't fully manage.
Microsoft Intune helps close this gap. By managing the endpoints where work actually happens, Intune provides visibility into which AI applications run on corporate-managed devices. It also enables control to allow, block, or restrict these applications through app protection policies and configuration profiles.
Conditional access ensures that only compliant, Intune-managed devices can access approved AI services. App protection policies help prevent corporate data from being copied or shared with unapproved AI tools on both corporate and BYOD devices.
Signals that matter
Agent 365 builds on Intune to make endpoint context a first-class signal in agent governance. Conditional access policies can require agents to operate from compliant devices. This requirement ensures that higher-trust agent actions align with the same device health requirements used to protect access to corporate resources.
Where applicable, administrators can manage agent deployment by using the same Intune workflows used for applications. This approach provides consistent targeting, monitoring, and remediation. For organizations with mixed device fleets, agents remain governed by the same endpoint standards across corporate-managed, BYOD, and partner-accessed scenarios.
This integration connects identity, data, and devices where agents actually do their work. By anchoring agent operations in Intune, Agent 365 ensures that endpoint posture is part of every agent decision. The result is a security and compliance model that treats agents like every other workload. Agents are governed end to end, from identity to data to device.