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AgentShield™

AI & Agent Workflow Security

Your AI agents are autonomous actors with real access to real systems. They can take actions, call APIs, read data, and execute code — and they can be manipulated, compromised, or simply over-permissioned. AgentShield is the first purpose-built security platform for the AI-native enterprise.

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Agent visibility
Real‑time
Runtime monitoring
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Prompt attack detection

AgentShield™ Protection Scope

  • AI Agent Discovery & Inventory
  • MCP Server Security
  • Prompt Attack Protection
  • Agent Identity Governance
  • Runtime Behavioral Monitoring
  • Autonomous Agent Containment
How AgentShield Works

Discover, Govern, Monitor, Contain

AgentShield runs a continuous security lifecycle for every AI agent in your enterprise — from the moment it’s deployed to the moment it’s decommissioned, and every action in between.

01

Continuous Agent Discovery

AgentShield automatically discovers every AI agent, LLM application, MCP server, autonomous workflow, and agent framework across your enterprise — including the ones your security team didn’t know existed. Shadow AI is a real and growing problem; AgentShield solves it at the discovery layer before anything else can happen.

02

Identity & Permission Governance

Every agent is issued a formal identity with authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management. AgentShield inventories every tool, API, and data source each agent can access — and continuously evaluates whether those permissions are appropriate, enforcing least-privilege at the agent layer.

03

Runtime Monitoring & Prompt Analysis

AgentShield monitors every agent in real time — observing tool invocations, API calls, data access, and workflow execution. Every prompt is analyzed for injection attempts, jailbreak patterns, context manipulation, and indirect injection before it reaches the model.

04

Trust Score Computation

AgentShield continuously computes dynamic trust scores for every agent based on identity verification, behavioral history, tool access patterns, data access risk, and current activity. Trust scores feed into TrustAnchor’s enterprise trust model and Vanguard’s response decisions.

05

Autonomous Containment

When trust thresholds are violated or compromise is detected, AgentShield automatically suspends agents, restricts tool access, revokes credentials, blocks workflow execution, and isolates MCP servers — stopping malicious AI activity before it completes its intended action.

Deep Capabilities

The Full AgentShield Capability Set

Agent Discovery & Inventory

Continuously discovers AI agents, LLM applications, MCP servers, autonomous workflows, and agent frameworks — including those deployed without security team awareness.

MCP Security

Protects Model Context Protocol infrastructure by discovering servers, inventorying exposed tools, analyzing permissions, governing access controls, and evaluating trust across the entire MCP environment.

Prompt Attack Protection

Detects prompt injection, indirect prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, context manipulation, and prompt poisoning attacks in real time — before they reach the model and before malicious instructions can execute.

Runtime Behavioral Monitoring

Continuously observes agent behavior, tool usage patterns, API access frequency, data access scope, and workflow execution — detecting anomalies and policy violations as they emerge.

Agent Identity Governance

Provides formal identity, authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management for every AI agent — plus dynamic trust scoring that continuously reflects actual agent behavior and risk.

Tool Invocation Validation

Validates every tool invocation request before execution — checking authorization level, data sensitivity, risk impact, and policy compliance in real time, blocking unauthorized actions before they complete.

Use Cases

How Enterprises Use AgentShield

Global SaaS

Shadow AI Discovery Across 800-Person Engineering Org

A SaaS company running AgentShield discovered 140 AI agents deployed by engineering teams that had never been registered with security — including 23 with direct production database access and 8 with customer data read permissions obtained through OAuth grants.

Outcome: All 140 agents registered, 31 decommissioned, permissions right-sized, continuous monitoring established.
Financial Services

Prompt Injection Attack Blocked Pre-Execution

AgentShield detected a sophisticated indirect prompt injection attack targeting an internal customer service AI agent through manipulated content in a customer email. The injected instruction would have instructed the agent to initiate an unauthorized funds transfer via a connected banking API.

Outcome: Attack blocked before execution. Agent suspended, MCP server isolated, attack vector documented in 90 seconds.
Healthcare

AI Agent Data Access Governance for HIPAA

A healthcare system deployed AgentShield to govern AI agents accessing patient data systems — enforcing least-privilege permissions, monitoring every data access event, and producing continuous audit evidence of agent behavior for HIPAA compliance.

Outcome: HIPAA-compliant AI agent governance established. Continuous audit evidence produced automatically.
Critical Infrastructure

MCP Server Exposure Remediation

AgentShield discovered that three internally deployed MCP servers were exposing sensitive operational tools to any authenticated agent — including tools that could modify network configurations and access SCADA system APIs. None of these exposures had been identified by existing security tooling.

Outcome: All three MCP servers reconfigured, tool access restricted to authorized agents, continuous monitoring established.
Part of Nexus

AgentShield Extends Nexus into the AI Layer

AgentShield feeds agent discovery data to Atlas, agent risk signals to Overwatch AI, trust scores to TrustAnchor, and containment actions to Vanguard — making the entire platform AI-aware.

Your AI Agents Are Autonomous. Your Security Should Be Too.

AgentShield governs, monitors, and protects every AI agent across your enterprise — so you can deploy AI without introducing uncontrolled risk.