
Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 434: Reading the Spec Sheet on Microsoft’s Agentic SOC
<p>Welcome to Episode 434 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. Microsoft announced Project Perception on 2026-07-27 with a lot of “workforce of AI agents” language. In this episode, Ben and Scott discuss what Perception really is, what it needs from your tenant, what it costs, and what happens the first time an agent asks you to approve something. Six agents. Seven playbooks. Every one manually triggered. Each agent gets its own Entra Agent ID and a permission grant. There’s a lot to unpack.</p> <p>Your support makes this show possible! Please consider becoming a premium member for ac...

