Design a governance and security strategy for Copilot Studio agents

Intermediate
Developer
App Maker
Microsoft Copilot Studio

Learn the governance and security decisions that prepare a Copilot Studio agent for production on the standard or GitHub Copilot harness, and how administrators maintain oversight after deployment.

Learning objectives

By completing this module, you can:

  • Explain how governance controls are distributed across the tenant, environment, and agent levels in Copilot Studio.
  • Apply a zoned governance strategy to classify and manage agents by purpose and risk.
  • Select an authentication approach based on an agent's audience, channels, and harness.
  • Evaluate an agent's channel and deployment readiness against governance policies.
  • Explain how administrators inventory and observe Copilot Studio agents after deployment.

Prerequisites

  • Ability to create and configure a basic agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
  • Basic familiarity with user authentication concepts.
  • Basic familiarity with Power Platform environments and connectors.