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"Security needs to be end to end and comprehensive, and in this age of AI that's more critical than ever."

Moments after she walked off the keynote stage at The Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, sat down with Jonathan Jones at the Community News Desk for a clear-eyed look at securing the agentic era. 🤖

Her advice for leaders is refreshingly concrete: start with your data foundations. Classify it, label it, set the policies that tell your AI what to access and what not to. Then treat agents the same way you treat humans, with their own identity and controls.

She also reframes a few things worth sitting with:
- Security should be ambient and autonomous, because the AI it protects already is.
- Attackers think in graphs, so defenders need to think in graphs.
- Productivity and security aren't opposites. Done right, security is the best catalyst for productivity.

🎥 Watch the full interview: https://msft.it/6183vbC83