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id: "prereq-enterprise-governance"
type: "prerequisite"
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tags: ["security", "enterprise-architecture"]
related: ["claim-governance-drives-adoption", "concept-least-privilege-agents"]
reason: "Essential for safely deploying agents that interact with sensitive corporate data systems."
sources: ["s06-openai-free-employee"]
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# Familiarity with Enterprise IT Governance

## Why This Is Required

Essential for safely deploying agents that interact with sensitive corporate data systems.

## What You Need to Know

Successfully deploying agents in a corporate environment requires a baseline understanding of enterprise IT security concepts:

- **Least privilege access** (see [[concept-least-privilege-agents]])
- **Service accounts** (see [[action-use-service-accounts]])
- **Audit logging** and version history
- **Compliance APIs** and regulated-workflow constraints
- **Permission scoping** by app and action

Without this knowledge, a practitioner risks building agents that are functional but **entirely undeployable** due to security compliance failures. The failure mode is captured in [[claim-governance-drives-adoption]] (~80%+ of pilots fail on compliance, not capability).