What is Global Secure Access enabled for Copilot Studio Agents

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Simon AD, William 0

What are the positives and negatives about the Global Secure Access enabled for Copilot Studio Agents? How does one turn it one?

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Global Secure Access for Copilot Studio Agents provides several benefits and some limitations:

Enhanced Security: It allows organizations to apply network security policies such as web content filtering, threat intelligence filtering, and network file filtering to agent traffic, similar to user traffic.
Visibility and Control: Administrators gain better visibility and control over agent network activity, ensuring that agents comply with organizational security policies.
Consistent Policies: Security policies are applied at the tenant level using a baseline profile, ensuring consistent security controls across all agent traffic.
Real-time Evaluation: The Global Secure Access service evaluates agent requests in real-time against configured security policies, allowing or denying requests based on compliance.

Limited Functionality: As a preview feature, it may have restricted functionality and is not meant for production use.
Known Limitations: Certain network requests, such as those to Dataverse and Azure SQL, are not supported, which may limit the functionality of some agents.
Configuration Complexity: Setting up and managing security policies may require additional administrative effort and expertise.

To enable Global Secure Access for Copilot Studio Agents, follow these steps:

Sign in to the Power Platform Admin Center as a Power Platform Administrator.
Navigate to Security > Identity & access > Global Secure Access for Agents.
Select the appropriate environment or environment group and click Set up.
Enable Global Secure Access for Agents for the selected environment.

After enabling, ensure to create or update any existing custom connectors to route traffic through Global Secure Access.