Latest news and updates about Entra ID.
Microsoft has announced new generally available and preview capabilities for Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access, with a strong focus on securing AI, web, and private app traffic. The updates give IT teams more visibility into shadow AI, prompt injection risks, unmanaged devices, and private app access while extending Zero Trust controls across more scenarios.
Microsoft’s latest Entra guidance explains SASE fundamentals for organizations modernizing secure access in cloud-first and hybrid work environments. The post clarifies how SASE differs from SSE, how it supports Zero Trust, and how teams can begin with Microsoft Global Secure Access.
Microsoft has introduced Account Discovery in Microsoft Entra ID Governance public preview to help organizations identify existing user accounts and permissions inside connected applications. The feature gives identity teams a clearer view of matched, unassigned, and orphaned accounts so they can bring unmanaged access under policy and reduce identity risk.
Microsoft has outlined how identity standards are evolving to support AI agents and other non-human identities in enterprise environments. The company highlights key standards work around trust bootstrapping, delegation, and reducing shared-secret use, signaling important changes for Entra administrators planning secure AI agent access.
Microsoft is positioning Entra Agent ID as the identity foundation for governing AI agents as first-class identities across the enterprise. Combined with Microsoft Agent 365, it gives organizations centralized visibility, lifecycle governance, and Conditional Access-style protections to reduce risk as agent adoption accelerates.
Microsoft has made the Tenant Configuration Management (TCM) APIs in Microsoft Graph generally available, giving organizations a scalable way to define, export, monitor, and manage tenant configurations. The release matters because it enables a configuration-as-code approach in Microsoft Entra, helping IT teams reduce drift, improve compliance, and automate governance across multi-tenant environments.
Microsoft has made License usage insights generally available in the Microsoft Entra admin center, giving IT admins clearer visibility into license entitlements and premium feature adoption. The update adds six months of usage trends, active versus guest user reporting, and Copilot prompt suggestions to support budgeting, compliance, and rollout planning.
Microsoft Entra’s Q1 2026 roundup introduces passkey enhancements, new governance APIs, External MFA general availability, and broader Conditional Access enforcement. The updates matter for IT teams because several changes require policy reviews, sync planning, and helpdesk preparation before enforcement deadlines in May and June 2026.
Microsoft highlights new research showing that AI adoption is rapidly expanding identity and network access risk, with AI agents, GenAI use, and fragmented tools increasing incidents across enterprises. The report argues that organizations need a more unified access strategy, or "access fabric," to improve visibility, enforce policy faster, and reduce risk as AI scales.
Microsoft Entra has introduced new SCIM 2.0 APIs that let external SCIM-compatible identity sources provision and manage users and groups directly in Entra. The update matters for IT teams because it enables standards-based identity lifecycle automation, reduces custom integration work, and supports reuse of existing SCIM tooling and workflows.
Microsoft has expanded the Conditional Access Optimization Agent in Entra ID public preview with context-aware recommendations, continuous gap analysis, least-privilege enforcement for agent identities, phased rollouts, passkey campaigns, and Zero Trust posture reporting. These updates help security teams move from static policy reviews to continuous identity security optimization with safer deployment and clearer visibility into access gaps.
Microsoft has introduced Entra Tenant Governance to help organizations discover, govern, and secure related tenants from a central control plane. The new capabilities matter for IT teams managing mergers, acquisitions, and shadow IT because they reduce cross-tenant risk, streamline delegated administration, and enforce consistent security baselines at scale.