Secure Enterprise AI Agents with Straiker’s Visibility & Protection
▼ Summary
– Straiker launched Discover AI and expanded Defend AI to provide security visibility and protection for AI agents, which operate with broad access and minimal oversight.
– AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot are now essential for 85% of developers but introduce risks like data exfiltration and remote code execution through their autonomous actions.
– Enterprise productivity agents, such as Microsoft Copilot, access sensitive systems like email and CRM, often without security teams’ knowledge of their activities or data reach.
– Discover AI automatically inventories agents and tools, detects vulnerabilities in MCP servers, and identifies unsafe agent configurations for security governance.
– Defend AI provides runtime security by monitoring and blocking malicious agent actions in real-time, such as prompt injections or data leaks, with high accuracy and low latency.
The rapid adoption of AI agents in enterprise environments has created a critical security gap. These systems, from coding assistants to custom-built platforms, operate with broad access and growing autonomy, often with no formal oversight. Straiker addresses this challenge by launching Discover AI and expanding its Defend AI platform, providing the visibility and runtime protection needed to secure this new operational layer.
Tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot are now fundamental to software development, with a vast majority of developers relying on them. This shift accelerates delivery but introduces significant risk. These agents can autonomously create and deploy other agents, opening vectors for endpoint takeover, data exfiltration, and remote code execution. Risks are compounded by integrations with potentially malicious MCP servers and extend to custom agent platforms like AWS Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Copilot Studio, where tool calls chain across sensitive production systems.
The problem scales with enterprise productivity agents such as Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce. These agents interact with email, documents, and CRM systems, frequently without security teams having an inventory of what is running or what data they can access. The central issue is not that the agents are at risk, but that they themselves represent a new attack surface.
To bring governance to this chaotic landscape, Discover AI provides comprehensive visibility. Many organizations cannot even list their active agents, their permissions, or their vulnerable connections. Discover AI solves this by automatically building an inventory of agents, MCPs, and tools across all platforms, giving security teams a centralized dashboard. It scans over 12,000 vulnerability databases to detect and block risky MCP configurations. The platform also enforces security hygiene by flagging agents with unsafe settings, like excessive permissions, and provides observability by classifying agent interactions based on risk.
For runtime threats, Defend AI offers active protection. Trained on millions of real-world agent traces, it detects malicious activity with high accuracy and sub-300ms latency. Its expanded capabilities now cover coding and productivity agents, featuring runtime action tracing to identify prompt injection and tool misuse as it happens. It prevents data exfiltration and destructive commands, and detects risks within MCP and tool chains. Defend AI integrates via API with major agent builder platforms for monitoring and can be deployed as an inline gateway for organizations that require real-time enforcement of security policies.
Industry experts underscore the urgency of this approach. “Agentic AI is moving to production faster than governance can keep up,” noted Ken Buckler, research director at EMA. “Our research shows nearly 80% of organizations have deployed agents without formal policies. We need to treat AI agents as first-class digital citizens with Zero Trust controls, as attackers are shifting to simply asking these agents for access.”
David Levin, CISO at American Express Global Business Travel, highlighted the foundational shift. “We’re rebuilding how we operate with agents at the center. The security stakes grow quickly as agents gain access to core systems, making focused protections essential for safe adoption.”
Scott Clinton from the OWASP GenAI Security Project framed the broader challenge. “Agentic AI introduces rapidly evolving risks like behavior hijacking and privilege abuse. Community-driven resources, like the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications developed with contributions from Straiker, provide critical guidance to help organizations manage these emerging threats holistically.”
Together, Straiker’s solutions form an agentic security control plane, designed to secure every category of AI agent across the entire security lifecycle, enabling enterprises to harness the power of autonomous systems without compromising safety.
(Source: Help Net Security)
