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AI Agent Security

Govern what AI coworkers and agents are allowed to do before they act, across every AI tool, on every endpoint. Enforce least privilege and least agency at each step.

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BeyondTrust Phantom Labs™, Phantom Labs Analysis of BeyondTrust’s Identity Security Insights Data Finds Enterprise AI Agents Growing 466.7% Year Over Year. March 2026.

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State of AI 2026 Report. AvePoint. June 2026.

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AI Agents & Identity Security: How Enterprises are Rewriting the Rules. Omdia Research (Commissioned by BeyondTrust). March 2026.

AI Agent Security

Use Cases

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AI Agent Discovery & Attribution
Identify every AI agent running across your endpoints—including shadow AI—and attribute each action to its source, clearly distinguishing human activity from agent-initiated execution.
Runtime Control & Privilege Enforcement
AI agents act at machine speed, and post-hoc detection arrives too late. Restrict credential access, block destructive commands, and enforce human-in-the-loop approval before agents act.
Vendor-Agnostic AI Agent Governance
When every action appears permitted, detection tools have nothing to flag. Apply deep, consistent controls across Claude Code, Copilot, and other agentic frameworks—before damage is done.

"We are not a privileged access company adding AI. We are the company that has long defined how to govern privileged action, and the most powerful actor on the endpoint is no longer human. For twenty years that actor was a person with admin rights, and we built the category for governing them. The actor changed. Our job did not."

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—Marc Maiffret, CTO, BeyondTrust

Undermanaged Agentic AI Risks

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AI agents don't introduce new permissions—they weaponize the ones already there, exposing gaps traditional security tools were never designed to close.

Unrestricted Credential Exposure
Agents launch with access to the same credentials as the user—cloud provider keys, SSH keys, SSO tokens, and repository access—with no scoping, least-privilege enforcement, or expiration.
Unchecked External Reach
AI agents communicate dynamically with external APIs and MCP servers, extending their blast radius well beyond the endpoint. Data and commands can flow outbound with no visibility or approval gate.
Bypassable Native Guardrails
A single flag can disable an AI tool's built-in safety controls. Vendor policy enforcement is fragmented tool by tool, leaving no consistent governance layer across your AI environment.
Shadow AI & Limited Agent Visibility
Security teams can't reliably discern AI-initiated activity from human actions. Legacy tools see only normal-looking API calls, leaving no reliable signal for detection or response. Meanwhile, AI agents are running in your environment whether IT approved them or not.

Product Highlights

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We believe organizations should be able to embrace AI productivity without becoming exposed to the unintended risks of delegated permissions. AI Agent Security builds on BeyondTrust's market-leading Endpoint Privilege Management and 20 years of privilege-centric identity security for thousands of customers. This new offering delivers three layers of critical AI governance capabilities, helping secure your AI Coworkers across Windows, macOS, Linux, and containers.

See every AI agent in your environment—before it becomes an active attack surface

With BeyondTrust, know which AI agents are running on every endpoint, including unsanctioned shadow AI. Our AI Agent Security product maps full execution chains across the environment, tracing each action to its source and identifying whether it was initiated by a human or an AI agent—giving security teams the context to confidently enforce downstream controls. Nothing hidden. Nothing untraceable.

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Control AI agents at runtime—before they become runaway systems

Only approved AI agents are allowed to execute. Everything else is blocked. Enforce least-privilege access across credentials and files, restrict destructive commands, and control MCP and API connections. Require human-in-the-loop approval—even when agents operate autonomously or native guardrails are disabled.

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Unify governance across every AI agent regardless of vendor

AI coworkers are fragmented by design—your controls shouldn’t be. AI Agent Security provides vendor-agnostic governance across Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and other agentic frameworks, ensuring no AI agent operates outside defined policy, regardless of how it’s deployed.

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A one-platform approach to Identity Security

The BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform unites our best of breed security solutions (including AI Agent Security) under a single console, delivering a streamlined experience that enhances operational agility, while also bringing shared, intelligent context across all our products to unlock powerful synergies. With our integrated Pathfinder platform, customers can benefit from the broad and deep capabilities reflected in our multicategory identity security leadership, and leverage the fastest time-to-value via a unified approach to manage their entire identity attack surface.

Learn more about the Pathfinder Platform

See every AI agent in your environment—before it becomes an active attack surface

With BeyondTrust, know which AI agents are running on every endpoint, including unsanctioned shadow AI. Our AI Agent Security product maps full execution chains across the environment, tracing each action to its source and identifying whether it was initiated by a human or an AI agent—giving security teams the context to confidently enforce downstream controls. Nothing hidden. Nothing untraceable.

Control AI agents at runtime—before they become runaway systems

Only approved AI agents are allowed to execute. Everything else is blocked. Enforce least-privilege access across credentials and files, restrict destructive commands, and control MCP and API connections. Require human-in-the-loop approval—even when agents operate autonomously or native guardrails are disabled.

Unify governance across every AI agent regardless of vendor

AI coworkers are fragmented by design—your controls shouldn’t be. AI Agent Security provides vendor-agnostic governance across Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and other agentic frameworks, ensuring no AI agent operates outside defined policy, regardless of how it’s deployed.

A one-platform approach to Identity Security

The BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform unites our best of breed security solutions (including AI Agent Security) under a single console, delivering a streamlined experience that enhances operational agility, while also bringing shared, intelligent context across all our products to unlock powerful synergies. With our integrated Pathfinder platform, customers can benefit from the broad and deep capabilities reflected in our multicategory identity security leadership, and leverage the fastest time-to-value via a unified approach to manage their entire identity attack surface.

Learn more about the Pathfinder Platform

Recommended Integrations

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Endpoint Privilege Management

Enforce least privilege dynamically to prevent malware, ransomware, and identity-based attacks, achieve compliance across Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints, and enable your zero trust strategy — without compromising on productivity.

Identity Security Insights

See and understand the access escalation pathways of identities—even across domains—to gain unrivaled control over your identity attack surface.

Register for AI Agent Security Early Access & Updates

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AI Agent Security is available as part of the Pathfinder Platform, and is offered in a limited private beta for select design partners, ahead of US general availability in Fall 2026.

Phantom Labs™ Research & News

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Popping Microsoft’s Sandbox: Dataverse Security Risks in Plugin Containers
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Claude & Control: An Introduction to Agentic C2 with Computer Use Agents
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How Command Injection Vulnerability in OpenAI Codex Leads to GitHub Token Compromise
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The Most Powerful Actor on the Endpoint Is No Longer Human. BeyondTrust Secures It.

AI Agent Security FAQs

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Customers can request to be on the early access list by signing up on this page or through their BeyondTrust account team. As more information is available, we will be in touch with more details. We look forward to hearing from you and helping you secure your AI agents.

BeyondTrust AI Agent Security helps organizations discover AI coworkers and agents, attribute actions to humans or agents, and control what those agents can access or execute on endpoints. It's designed to restrict credential and file access, block risky commands, govern MCP and API connections, and require approval before sensitive actions run.

AI Agent Security controls agent behavior while the agent is actively running. Instead of waiting to detect harmful activity after it happens, runtime controls evaluate actions before execution, including process launches, file changes, credential access, external connections, and privileged commands.

AI Agent Security reduces endpoint and identity-based risks by limiting what AI agents can do inside a user security context. Because AI coworkers can inherit user permissions, reach local files, use credentials, and interact with external systems, endpoint-level controls help reduce the blast radius before risky actions occur.

Enterprises should look for AI agent security tools that provide shadow AI discovery, human and agent attribution, runtime privilege enforcement, credential protection, vendor-agnostic policy controls, and human-in-the-loop approval for high-risk actions across endpoints and AI tools.

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