Event details

Security practitioners, bring your real questions.

Join Microsoft Security experts live at RSA Conference or online via Tech Community for a live AMA focused on data and AI security in real-world environments. Ask how data protection, AI security, and governance actually work in production—what teams are turning on first, what can wait, and where things commonly break.

This session is designed for practitioners who want practical answers, not future-state vision.

What to expect
• Live Q&A with Microsoft Security SMEs and real practitioners
• Questions submitted both in person and online
• No slides, no pitches, no roadmap discussions
• Real usage, real challenges, real answers

Whether you’re attending RSA in person or joining remotely, this is your chance to get straight answers from people building and securing AI at scale.

Trevor_Rusher
Published Jan 22, 2026

38 Comments

  • Question from the live event:

    We work with large enterprises and one of the consistent challenges we're seeing is that Microsoft products are evolving so quickly that we lack clarity into the roadmap — specifically for Agent 365. Some of our clients are choosing alternative solutions because smaller vendors are moving faster on non-human identities, agents, and related management capabilities. We'd like to understand how we can get closer to the product teams and work more collaboratively with Microsoft — so we can better explain the roadmap to customers and set clearer expectations.

    • David_Broaddus's avatar
      David_Broaddus
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      Answer:

      We should make sure that it is included in our public roadmap and there should be some change management going on. Agent 365 is a new concept, so partner readiness is a top priority for us to help partners and the field engage the customer better to mitigate the amount of overwhelming information and drive clarity.  

  • Question from the audience:

    I work for a company called the Center for Internet Security. Organizations, states and countries are apprehensive in using AI tools. That's been the challenge for us. We're known for security best practices and partnered with a lot of security frameworks like NIST. When Microsoft builds your products from a product management perspective, do you work with these organizations or these frameworks? And how can we get more transparency to our customers. 

    • David_Broaddus's avatar
      David_Broaddus
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      Answer:

      We work with these organizations and we put objectives into a full list because of different vulnerabilities and issues. We are making sure customers can automate controls to figure out the entire lifecycle and connect it back to agents or other things that can provide users proof of compliance for their hours giving the entire end to end best practice. We have some baseline security guidance as you invite agents and AI into your organization along with policies and best practice guidance to then invite AI and agents into your organization to start off on the right foot. We make sure we are aligned with regulation, legal trust, and training best practices to be secure by design.

      If you are interested in learning about the Microsoft service where and where we are complying with the regulation of reports, there is a post service trust portal that you can go and see all the auditing reports and certificates.

  • Do you have any insights on computing agents versus agents as a service deployments? 

    • David_Broaddus's avatar
      David_Broaddus
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      Answer: We have a playwright server integrated into VDOP for Visual Studio Code which allows agents to execute in the browser. We are also seeing partners building scenarios into the products that they are selling to protect their agents and make sure they are safe along with detections for endpoint.

    • Trevor_Rusher's avatar
      Trevor_Rusher
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      This event page is completely text-based! We are going to be posting the in-person questions and answers here for you all to read as well as pass along any online questions you may have to the experts at the event! Does that make sense?

  • Trevor_Rusher's avatar
    Trevor_Rusher
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    People are still trickling into the live event so we will begin in a few minutes after a few welcome/orientation slides from our speakers!

  • Trevor_Rusher's avatar
    Trevor_Rusher
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    Hi everyone! The event is going to begin soon. We will be doing our best to post all of the live Q&A going on at the event center at RSA in the comments here on this page. If you have any questions as our online audience, please post them down here as well and we will have our moderators pass them along to the experts in person. We hope everyone learns something new today! Enjoy.

    • ShahBaig-6389's avatar
      ShahBaig-6389
      Steel Contributor

      Please check below on this page after all comments section.

       

    • Trevor_Rusher's avatar
      Trevor_Rusher
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      Hey Lisa_Holden​ the event will be right here on this page! We will be answering questions here live from the in-person event at RSA!

      • Starlighttheatre8675's avatar
        Starlighttheatre8675
        Copper Contributor

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