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AI application & agent security

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These products address different jobs. Follow a control purpose to inspect its offerings, operating assumptions, and evidence. Placement groups related work; it does not indicate quality or rank.

Reviewed . Comparable edition scopes and published scoring criteria are needed before this market receives scores or momentum signals.

Each offering has one primary placement. Secondary tags show overlap within its documented scope. Filter by control purpose to include both primary and secondary coverage. Model supply-chain security is marked as adjacent.

24 offerings

CONTROL PURPOSE 01

Agent discovery and security posture

Discover agents, owners, configurations and reachable resources before prioritizing exposure.

Where the boundary lies: An inventory or posture finding does not itself block an agent action. Connector scope determines what is visible.

Zenity

Zenity AI Agent Security Platform

Zenity combines agent inventory and posture assessment with exposure testing and runtime controls. This placement starts with discovering agents and assessing their reachable resources.

Also covers
Agent tool and execution controls · Agent detection, response and recovery · Agent security testing and validation
Deployment surface
SaaS agents · Custom/cloud agents · Endpoint/coding agents
Integration point
Platform connector
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Compare the discovered agent and exposure finding with the source configuration and owner record.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Noma Security

Noma AI Agent Security Platform

Noma describes discovery and posture assessment alongside agent access controls, red teaming and session detection. This profile begins with inventory and exposure context.

Also covers
Agent tool and execution controls · Agent detection, response and recovery · Agent security testing and validation
Deployment surface
SaaS agents · Custom/cloud agents · Endpoint/coding agents
Integration point
Platform connector · API/SDK · Gateway/proxy
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Preserve the inventory change, exposure finding and selected policy outcome for the new tool.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

SentinelOne

SentinelOne Prompt AI Agent Security

Prompt AI Agent Security is described as a discovery and governance control plane for agentic workflows. Its primary placement is visibility and policy context.

Also covers
Agent tool and execution controls · AI interaction and data protection
Deployment surface
Endpoint/coding agents · Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Platform connector · Gateway/proxy · API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Record the discovered dependency, ownership context and resulting interaction policy decision.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Lasso Security

Lasso AI Security Posture Management

Lasso AI Security Posture Management maps agent and application exposure, including reachable data and available actions. Runtime protection is a complementary area of the platform.

Also covers
AI interaction and data protection
Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Platform connector
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Link the exposure finding to the exact configured resource and verified access result.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

CONTROL PURPOSE 02

Agent identity and access security

Govern agent identities, delegated permissions and credentials throughout their lifecycle.

Where the boundary lies: Valid credentials establish access, but do not establish whether an action matches the assigned task.

Oasis Security

Oasis Agent Identity Security

Oasis addresses agent risk through non-human identities and delegated access. The useful boundary is the permission and credential used by an agent.

Also covers
Agent discovery and security posture
Deployment surface
SaaS agents · Custom/cloud agents · Endpoint/coding agents
Integration point
Identity provider · Platform connector
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Compare effective permissions and access outcomes before and after the grant is reduced.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Okta

Okta for AI Agents

Okta for AI Agents applies identity governance and least privilege to agent access. It makes the agent an explicit subject in the identity security model.

Also covers
Agent discovery and security posture
Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Identity provider
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Record the identity lifecycle event and resource access result, including any surviving session.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Cisco

Cisco / Astrix Agent Identity Security

Astrix addresses agent and non-human identity discovery, access and lifecycle security. Its Cisco ownership does not make it equivalent to AI Defense validation.

Also covers
Agent discovery and security posture
Deployment surface
SaaS agents · Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Platform connector · Identity provider
Availability
Legacy / acquired

Make it observable: Verify credential removal and denied access while preserving the product-transition context.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

CONTROL PURPOSE 03

Agent tool and execution controls

Authorize or constrain individual tool calls and executable actions at their enforcement point.

Where the boundary lies: A gateway or execution hook protects only the routes it intercepts. Test direct access and bypass paths.

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Policy

Policy in AgentCore places an authorization decision at the gateway tool boundary. Cedar policies evaluate the principal, action, resource and relevant context before a tool call proceeds. This provides a concrete contrast with asking the language model to remember a business rule.

Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Gateway/proxy
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: The authorized read succeeds, containment is denied at the gateway, and the downstream mock records no containment action.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Bay Security

Bay Agentic Endpoint Security

Bay describes endpoint discovery, session monitoring and action enforcement using session context. This profile emphasizes its allow, ask or deny decision at execution.

Also covers
Agent discovery and security posture · Agent detection, response and recovery
Deployment surface
Endpoint/coding agents
Integration point
Endpoint control
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Record the session, policy decision and mock bucket state before and after execution.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Zscaler

Zscaler AI Gateway

Zscaler AI Gateway places a control point in agent communications over MCP and A2A. Its scoped job is governing connections to tools, data and other agents.

Also covers
Agent identity and access security · AI interaction and data protection
Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Gateway/proxy
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Compare gateway records with server receipts and verify that the denied route made no call.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

WitnessAI

WitnessAI Agentic Security

WitnessAI extends AI usage governance to agent activity and the MCP tool boundary. Evaluate how observed agent connections become enforceable policy.

Also covers
Agent discovery and security posture · AI interaction and data protection
Deployment surface
Endpoint/coding agents · Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Gateway/proxy
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Capture discovery, policy handling and whether the unexpected tool actually executed.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Snyk

Snyk Evo Agent Behavior Governance

Snyk Evo describes governance inside an agent execution loop. This scope emphasizes policies on agent behavior during development.

Also covers
Agent security testing and validation
Deployment surface
Endpoint/coding agents
Integration point
Endpoint control
Availability
Generally available

Make it observable: Capture the server policy, endpoint decision and connection outcome in logging and blocking modes.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

CONTROL PURPOSE 04

AI interaction and data protection

Inspect model inputs, retrieved content and outputs for instruction attacks and sensitive-data exposure.

Where the boundary lies: A content detection is not a credential revocation or tool denial. Verify how the application enforces the result.

Check Point

Check Point AI Guardrails

Check Point AI Guardrails, identified as Lakera Guard in its privacy documentation, inspects submitted LLM inputs and outputs for threats and policy violations. The practical question is where an application sends content for inspection, what action follows a detection and how that content is retained.

Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: The result distinguishes the detected policy condition, the enforced application action and the content recorded in service logs.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Microsoft

Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety

Azure AI Content Safety provides APIs for application content checks. Prompt Shields addresses instructions that try to redirect a model, including attacks embedded in documents. The returned result is evidence for an application decision; a separate identity and permission system still controls access to records and tools.

Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: The test separately records the prompt detection and the data-access denial, with benign scheduling questions still usable.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Model Armor

Model Armor screens prompts and responses using configurable templates. Its inspect-only and blocking modes are useful for teaching the difference between a recorded policy violation and an interaction that was actually stopped. Integrations and content modalities have explicit boundaries that must be checked.

Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Logs identify the template and filter result, and the application records whether the model was invoked in each enforcement mode.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

NVIDIA

NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is a programmable library for adding checks at several stages of an LLM application. Input, retrieval, dialog, execution and output rails expose different control points. That makes it an educational option for seeing exactly where a check belongs, while leaving configuration and operation with the application team.

Also covers
Agent tool and execution controls
Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: The trace demonstrates which rail ran and whether the mock tool was called; a blocked answer alone is not counted as a blocked action.

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CONTROL PURPOSE 05

Agent detection, response and recovery

Trace agent behavior, detect harmful activity and support intervention, investigation or recovery.

Where the boundary lies: Detection may occur after an action. Recovery depends on supported systems and preserved state; no placement implies every response function.

CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian

Falcon Guardian connects agent execution with Falcon telemetry for discovery, runtime detection and response. The endpoint execution chain is the primary scope here.

Also covers
Agent discovery and security posture · Agent tool and execution controls
Deployment surface
Endpoint/coding agents
Integration point
Endpoint sensor
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Retain the agent session, process chain, detection and observable response outcome.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Rubrik

Rubrik Agent Cloud

Rubrik Agent Cloud describes monitoring, governance and remediation across agent data, identities and actions. This profile connects behavioral evidence to intervention and recovery questions.

Also covers
Agent discovery and security posture · Agent tool and execution controls
Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents · Endpoint/coding agents
Integration point
Platform connector · Gateway/proxy
Availability
Generally available

Make it observable: Retain the action trace, intervention result and verified restored record state.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

Proofpoint

Proofpoint Agentic AI Security

Proofpoint Agentic AI Security describes runtime observability and behavioral anomaly detection across multistep agent workflows. Its Acuvity lineage is ownership context.

Also covers
AI interaction and data protection · Agent tool and execution controls
Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Compare the reconstructed transaction with the attempted destination and actual delivery result.

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CONTROL PURPOSE 06

Agent security testing and validation

Exercise agent and application configurations with adversarial and benign cases before and after changes.

Where the boundary lies: A passing evaluation samples behavior and does not guarantee that every future model, prompt or tool sequence is safe.

Cisco

Cisco AI Defense

AI Defense combines model and application validation with separately integrated runtime protection. Its management API exposes validation runs and results alongside application connections and policy events. This makes it useful for learning how a predeployment finding becomes a runtime control, without treating the two as the same test.

Also covers
AI interaction and data protection
Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: The record contains the original test case, validation result, configured policy and observable runtime outcome.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

HiddenLayer

HiddenLayer AI Attack Simulation

HiddenLayer AI Attack Simulation tests AI systems with adversarial cases, including prompt manipulation, data leakage and unsafe tool use. Its value to an evaluation is the reproducible failing interaction and resulting repair, not the existence of a report or an aggregate score.

Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
API/SDK
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: The result identifies an observable unauthorized mock action, and a corrected policy prevents it on retest without breaking permitted use.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

OpenAI

Promptfoo AI Security Testing

Promptfoo provides AI security testing and red teaming, including an open-source project. Its primary job is finding failures in a configured application.

Deployment surface
Custom/cloud agents
Integration point
Test harness
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: Preserve the case, tool configuration and actual disclosure outcome before and after repair.

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ADJACENT AI SECURITY 07

Model supply-chain security

Assess model artifacts and dependencies before promotion into an AI application.

Where the boundary lies: This adjacent AI security discipline cannot establish runtime agent permissions or business authorization.

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS

Prisma AIRS spans several AI security modules. AI Model Security examines model artifacts and their supply chain before use, while runtime APIs inspect interactions after integration. A learner should keep an artifact finding separate from evidence that a deployed agent can access too much data.

Deployment surface
Model artifacts
Integration point
Build pipeline
Availability
Confirm availability

Make it observable: The review preserves artifact identity, the finding and promotion decision; it makes no claim that the scan certifies runtime behavior.

Inspect scope & evidence ↗

APPLY IT / AGENTIC SOC

The alert is evidence. It is not authority.

An investigation agent reads a suspicious message, gathers context, and proposes a response. Trace which component checks the content, which identity authorizes each tool call, and which policy governs the proposed action.

In a lab, place conflicting instructions in synthetic evidence. Record whether the agent attempts an unauthorized action and whether the tool boundary prevents it. A model refusing the request and an authorization control denying it are different observations.

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