Building a secure-by-default foundation for the AI-powered enterprise

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Building a secure-by-default foundation for the AI-powered enterprise

Agents act, decide and execute, which changes risk, security and governance. This guide shows how to build a secure-by-default foundation so you can scale AI at speed without losing control.

✓ Why secure-by-default is a discipline, not a license feature
✓ The speed-versus-control challenge facing CIOs, CISOs and CFOs
✓ A practical four-stage framework: Prepare, Discover, Protect, Govern
Why now: IDC expects AI agent use to surge tenfold by 2027, and Gartner reports 69% of organizations suspect or have confirmed employees using non-approved AI tools.

What you will find inside

A practical guide to scaling AI securely. Here is a taste.

  • The shift:
    Why guardrails come first

    Why identity, data permissions and access must be enforced before any agent is deployed.

  • The challenge:
    Speed versus control

    How CIOs, CISOs and CFOs are solving different problems with the same technology.

  • The framework:
    Prepare, Discover, Protect, Govern

    A practical four-stage model to scale AI securely on Microsoft 365 E7.

How to use the guide

This is a working guide, not just a read. Here is how teams put it to work.

✓ Assess your environment for AI readiness ✓ Clean up identity, data and access first
✓ Apply Zero Trust principles before agents scale ✓ Give every agent an owner and a lifecycle
✓ Build governance in as a continuous program ✓ Talk to SoftwareOne about the four-stage framework
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Build your secure-by-default foundation

Get the guide and the four-stage framework to scale AI safely on Microsoft 365 E7.

Build your secure-by-default foundation

Get the guide and the four-stage framework to scale AI safely on Microsoft 365 E7.