You've just configured RBAC roles to grant your AI agent precise permissions for reading conversation history from Cosmos DB. However, the agent still needs a way to prove its identity when making API calls—traditionally accomplished by storing a connection string or access key in application configuration. This approach creates immediate security risks: developers accidentally commit secrets to source control repositories, connection strings proliferate across configuration files in multiple environments, and operations teams spend hours rotating credentials quarterly to satisfy compliance audits. Microsoft security research shows that 60% of cloud security incidents involve compromised credentials, with an average breach detection time of 280 days.
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