As campuses adopt AI agents and cloud services, veterans from CrowdStrike and SentinelOne launched JetStream Security to map live AI activity inside enterprises; the company raised $34 million to tackle AI inventory, cost tracking, and kill‑switch needs. At the same time, campus IT teams are being urged to audit Microsoft 365 Education licensing and entitlements to optimize spending and compliance under tight budgets. JetStream’s ‘AI Blueprints’ trace the chain of agent actions and data flows in real time — a capability that higher‑education IT leaders say could help detect unauthorized models and protect research data. Meanwhile, licensing assessments for Microsoft 365 remain urgent as institutions wrestle with complex campus agreements and rising costs. Why it matters: CIOs, research‑IT directors, and chief information security officers should prioritize AI‑agent inventory, adopt provenance tracking for models interacting with institutional data, and align licensing reviews with data‑privacy and procurement controls.
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