Your accounts already have AI agents running. Most can't tell you which ones.
Every M365 tenant you sell into already has people building agents in Copilot Studio, Teams, and other apps, often without IT's knowledge or sign-off. Ascent's complimentary assessment inventories every agent the account has, and hands you a ranked, priced plan to fix it.
- Complimentary, three-week remote engagement
- Any M365 tenant qualifies, no upgrade required to start
- Uses Microsoft tools the account already owns
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Most security and IT leaders can't answer a basic question right now.
How many AI agents exist in their environment, and what can each one touch? That gap is showing up in more security conversations. Here's what's driving it.
Shadow agents are already live. IT doesn't know about them.
Copilot Studio, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 apps make it easy for anyone to stand up an agent. Security teams typically can't say who built it, what it can access, or whether anyone approved it.
Agents inherit permissions nobody reviewed.
An agent built quickly to solve one problem often has far broader access than it needs. Excessive permissions are one of the most common exposure risks the assessment finds.
Copilot responses can surface data that should have stayed locked down.
When an agent can reach sensitive data, its responses can leak that data to the wrong person, or outside the organization entirely.
When an agent is compromised or misused, most teams have no way to see it.
Without a monitoring layer built for agents specifically, weak authentication and misuse can go unnoticed until something breaks.
Watch for these signs the account is a strong fit.
- The customer is piloting, discussing, or rolling out Copilot, Copilot Studio, or Agent 365.
- The customer has raised AI governance, shadow IT, or data-loss questions in any recent conversation.
- The customer has had a recent AI-related incident, audit finding, or board-level question about AI risk.
- Security or IT leadership has asked some version of “how many agents do we actually have running.”
- The account is on E5 and weighing whether E7 is worth the upgrade.
- The account is Microsoft-first and has responded well to complimentary security engagements before.
Three weeks, structured start to finish.
Weeks 1–2 · Discovery
Full agent inventory across the environment
Ascent inventories every official, shadow, and local AI agent across the customer's environment, using Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, and MDR alongside Agent 365 where available. Covers identity, access, data, and monitoring risk for each agent found.
Week 3 · Reporting & Remediation
A ranked, priced plan the customer can act on
Ascent scores the exposure risk for each agent, builds an executive-level risk view, and delivers a ranked, priced remediation plan with quick-win recommendations the customer can act on immediately.
The engagement is remote and structured start to finish. No on-site time is required from the customer's team beyond initial discovery input.
A complete, priced picture of AI agent risk.
Agent Inventory
Every agent found, its owner, and the resources it can access.
Executive Exposure-Risk Dashboard
A leadership-ready view of AI agent risk across the environment.
Risk Score
A clear measure of overall exposure.
Ranked, Priced Remediation Plan
Prioritized fixes with cost attached, not just findings.
Quick-Win Recommendations
The fastest, highest-impact fixes to act on first.
A Path Forward
A recommended next step into ongoing managed monitoring or a broader security assessment.
It's an easy referral with real upside.
It opens a Copilot and Agent 365 conversation with evidence. You're not asking the customer to imagine a risk. The assessment shows them their own environment.
It's an easy yes. The engagement uses tools the account may already own, and no incremental purchase is required to start.
E5 accounts get a concrete reason to evaluate E7. Instead of an abstract licensing decision, the customer sees exactly what the upgrade protects.
It positions you as the seller who brought a security answer. Ascent delivers the engagement; you get credit for the introduction.
There's nothing for the customer to lose. No cost, no long commitment, and a defined three-week timeline make this a low-friction referral.
Suggested conversation starters.
“Do you know how many AI agents are actually running in your environment right now, and what they can access?”
“Ascent runs a complimentary, three-week assessment that inventories every agent and hands you a priced plan to secure them. No Agent 365 or E7 required to start.”
“If you're weighing E7, this gives you real evidence of what the upgrade would actually protect, before you commit to it.”
“This is a zero-cost way to get ahead of an AI governance question before it becomes an incident.”
Ascent is the cybersecurity partner to Advise, Detect, and Protect the enterprise.
Ascent runs Microsoft security stacks day in and day out for enterprise and mid-market teams, not just on paper. That's what backs the assessment you're referring: a MISA Security Customer Champion in 2024 and Microsoft US Partner of the Year in 2023.
Turn a Copilot conversation into a security engagement.
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