Practice Checkpoint 3: Registering an Agent—With and Without Agent ID

Semperis introduces Migrator for Active Directory 2.0, an update aimed at helping organizations move Active Directory environments with confidence and greater operational control.

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.

Chapter five of the Semperis guide explains Microsoft's Agent Registry as the inventory and governance plane for agents, distinct from Entra Agent ID, and how agents authenticate in three flows.

Syncing Domain Admins into Entra ID lets attackers pivot from compromised on-prem AD to the cloud, and back via password writeback. CIS and Microsoft advise keeping privileged admin accounts cloud-only.

Harness engineering explained: an AI agent is a model plus a harness—orchestration code, prompt chains, routing, evaluator loops and context compaction connecting models to tools and validation.

Nearly one in seven Entra ID environments saw rogue device registrations in 90 days, Wiz finds; attackers abuse DRS via device-code phishing, and AI-realistic device names erode old fingerprints.