Detecting and mitigating common agent misconfigurations

Agents are increasingly powerful. With that power comes risk: small misconfigurations, over‑broad sharing, unauthenticated access, and weak orchestration controls can create real exposure. This article consolidates the most common risks we observe and maps each to practical detections with Microsoft Defender, and mitigations in Copilot Studio.
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Research

February 12

17 min read

Detecting and mitigating common agent misconfigurations

By Microsoft Defender Security Research Team

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