Sep 1, 2026, 6:59 PMCybersecurity
Closing an Azure OpenAI assistant's retrieval gap didn't take a new
Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He wrote the indexing job, configured…
Summary
Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran. His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about 60% of inbound customer email, Cioffi told VentureBeat in written responses to our interview questions. The evaluation scores were clean, and the unit tests passed.
Positives
- He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran.
- His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about 60% of inbound customer email, Cioffi told VentureBeat in written responses to our interview questions.
- Cioffi ran a low-privilege account against the same questions a high-privilege account had already put to the assistant.
- The assistant returned SharePoint content the requesting user could not have opened in SharePoint on their own.
Risks & concerns
- The article may not provide enough evidence to validate every implication.
- Execution, cost, adoption, regulation, or security could change the outcome.
Primary sourceVentureBeathttps://venturebeat.com/security/azure-openai-agent-passed-every-evaluation-served-files-user-couldnt-open
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