Use Case

Secure Copilot Studio Access

Give every Copilot Studio agent a verified blended identity, enforce exactly what it can access, and produce an audit trail that holds up to compliance review without slowing deployment.

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The Challenge of Securing Copilot Studio at Scale

Microsoft Copilot Studio makes it fast to build and deploy AI agents connected to enterprise tools and data through MCP servers. That speed is the goal, but it’s also where the security gap opens.

When a Copilot Studio agent connects to an enterprise resource, it needs credentials. The default approach – static API keys stored in agent or MCP server configurations, broad service account permissions granted at provisioning time, or using OAuth to let the user give the agent access – gets the agent running. It doesn’t produce an access model that holds up to security review, compliance audit, or the scrutiny that follows an incident.

Security teams need to close three gaps to deploy Copilot Studio agents with confidence:

  • No distinct agent identity. Copilot Studio agents inherit the connecting user’s access rights with no identity of their own. Attribution in audit logs is incomplete, and services outside the IdP’s scope are ungoverned.
  • Long-lived credentials stored in the wrong places. Standard MCP authentication in Copilot Studio stores API keys and tokens directly in agent or connector configurations – static, unrotated, and sitting in places never designed to be credential stores.
  • No centralized access control. Access policies must be configured per agent and per user, updated individually, with no centralized logging across the agent landscape.
Aembit securing Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents architecture
Aembit securing Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents architecture

How Aembit Secures Copilot Studio

Aembit provides a central control plane that gives each Copilot Studio agent a blended identity – tied to but distinct from the user’s human identity – and enforces least-privilege access policy at the MCP server level in real time, with a complete, attributable audit record of every action the agent takes.

Security teams can approve Copilot Studio deployments with the same identity, access, and audit controls they apply to the rest of their environment.

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Proven in Production

Aembit’s blended identity model is already running in high-stakes enterprise environments. A $300B investment firm deployed AI agents across its analyst and executive workforce – connecting agents to Microsoft 365, Factset, and Kensho – with Aembit securing every connection from day one. Their security team went from blocking the rollout to owning it.

The same access model that secured Claude agents at that firm governs Copilot Studio agents through Aembit today.

Secure Copilot Studio Access to MCP Servers

Govern Copilot Studio agent access to tools and resources regardless of where agents operate or which MCP servers they connect to.

Secretless

Replace static API keys and connector tokens with ephemeral, single-use credentials. Nothing persists in agent or MCP server configurations.

Blended Identity

Give each Copilot Studio agent its own identity – distinct from the user's – within the same access and audit framework applied to your human workforce.

Token Exchange

Replace insecure token passthrough between Copilot Studio and downstream services with a governed, policy-enforced brokering layer.

Policy Enforcement

Real-time allow/deny decisions at the traffic boundary, before any tool is invoked or data is reached. Defined once, enforced for every agent.

Centralized Management

A single control plane governing all Copilot Studio agent access policies across the environment — alongside policies for Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and custom agents.

Audit With Attribution

Complete, human-agent-attributed logs for every access event. Answer any compliance question — which agent, which resource, which policy, when — without digging through server logs.

Agentic AI Identity and Access Management for All Your Teams

Empower your teams with Aembit’s IAM for Agentic AI – streamlined identity verification, simplified access controls, and consistent security across every Copilot Studio deployment.

Security

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DevSecOps

Developers

Compliance

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