Copilot, AI Agents and the Hidden Permissions Problem

Friday 24^th July 2026 - 2PM EDT

30 minutes

Presented by Philip Robinson, Chief Marketing Officer @ Lepide

Artificial intelligence is changing how employees discover, access, and interact with information, but it isn't creating new permissions risks. It's exposing existing ones. As organizations adopt Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, and other AI-powered tools, long-standing issues such as excessive permissions, overshared data, stale accounts, and poor identity hygiene can quickly become security concerns. In this webinar, we'll explore the hidden permissions problem behind AI adoption and show you how to identify and reduce risk across Active Directory, file servers, and Microsoft 365 before AI amplifies it.

What You'll Learn

• Why AI increases the impact of excessive permissions and overshared data
• The connection between identity security, data security, and AI readiness
• How to identify users with unnecessary access to sensitive data
• Common Active Directory risks that can expose data to AI-powered tools
• How to discover sensitive and business-critical data across your environment
• Practical steps to implement least privilege and improve AI readiness
• Live demonstrations of how Lepide helps organizations identify and reduce permissions-related risk

Whether you're actively deploying Microsoft Copilot, evaluating AI agents, or simply preparing your environment for future AI initiatives, this session will provide practical guidance to help you strengthen identity and access controls, reduce data exposure, and build a more secure foundation for AI adoption.