Workplace Ninjas US Boston Meetup

Jon Towles

This will be the inaugural meetup for Workplace Ninjas US Boston at the Innovation Hub in Burlington, MA. The agenda and sponsors TBD.

5 Wayside Rd

Agenda

Introduction

AI agents are entering the SOC fast but most teams are not securing them.

This session focuses on the real risks of deploying Microsoft Security Copilot and agentic AI in production environments including prompt injection, data exposure, over permissioned connectors, and uncontrolled autonomy.

You will walk away with practical blueprints and proven design patterns for secure AI adoption including least privilege architecture, RBAC alignment, auditability, prompt governance, and safe MCP integration strategies.

If you are bringing AI into security operations, this talk shows you how to build it securely from day one.

SOC it to me: how to blueprint AI security governance using the tools you have

Break

A session for IT Pros in a Desktop Engineering, DaaS, or App Deployment discipline. TMurgent’s founder Tim Mangan will give a modern review of app packaging today, including the following:
• The reasons Enterprises need to package apps
• How apps themselves are changing
• Automating the installation and customization
• Learning about the apps
• Automating the packaging workflow
• Use of third party packaging factories
• Enhancing with full app lifecycle management
You will learn about the current best practices in use by the best organizations from around the world, to better enable you to implement these practices in your environment.

Best Practices in App Packaging

Lunch

Login VSI Sponsored Session

Interactive session demonstrating best practices for managing kiosk and assigned access configurations through Intune; focusing on the 4 main examples featured in my Kiosk blog post. The session will feature best practices for validating a Windows 11 Kiosk image XML and deploying at scale using Intune from an endpoint administrator's point-of-view. We will review common pitfalls and misconceptions with Windows 11 "Kiosk mode", now officially called Assigned Access for Windows 11.


Leveraging Intune Management for Windows 11 Kiosks and Assigned Access Devices

Security teams already have access to enormous volumes of telemetry across identity, endpoint, network, and cloud. The real challenge isn’t collecting more data. It’s turning that data into faster decisions and better protection. This is where AI changes the game.
This session will focus on the Unified Security Operations Center (SOC) architecture that integrates data, AI, and human expertise to empower security teams to prevent, detect, and respond to threats seamlessly across the entire lifecycle.

The Agentic SOC Era

AI agents are being built across multiple tools, frameworks, and platforms—but without centralized governance, they can quickly become invisible, insecure, and unmanaged. Agent 365 addresses this challenge by extending enterprise-grade identity, security, and observability to AI agents.
This session breaks down the Agent 365 control plane, covering agent discovery and registry, policy-based access control, observability into agent behavior, and secure interoperability with Microsoft 365 services. Designed for architects and technical leaders, the talk will focus on real-world patterns for safely scaling agent-based solutions while minimizing operational risk

From Chaos to Control: Managing AI Agents at Scale with Agent 365

Closing

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Workplace Ninjas US Boston Meetup

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Location

5 Wayside Rd

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Agenda

Introduction

SOC it to me: how to blueprint AI security governance using the tools you have

Break