How Alterion is different

A gap exists in current tools.
Alterion was built to fill that gap.

Enterprises put agents to work faster than today's security products can see or govern them. Alterion started from six design principles to discover every agent and control what each one does, inside the enterprise.
Design principles

The principles Alterion is built on.

The first principle

Never slow productivity down

Having led development teams, the founders made this non-negotiable. Security that slows teams down gets bypassed or switched off, so Alterion keeps up with agents with no SDKs or code changes.

01Discover, not register

Single-point tools watch one checkpoint and see only the agents that pass it. Alterion's sensors find every agent where it runs, so shadow and vendor agents are covered from day one.

02Follow behavior

Fixed rules overlook an agent misusing valid access. Alterion's Helix models learn each agent's usual patterns and stop one acting out of character before the action runs.

03Reduce friction

Slow checks get switched off. Alterion's checks finish in under 100 ms and need no code changes, so protection remains on and developers ship at full pace.

04Keep data sovereignty

Cloud inspection sends prompts outside the company. Alterion installs on-prem or air-gapped with zero data egress, so IP and customer records stay in-house, which regulated industries often require.

05Unify the controls

Another console adds another rulebook. One Alterion policy spans the endpoint, SaaS, gateway and identity controls already in place, so every agent answers to the same standard.

06Be complete

Point products handle one slice and leave the seams to the buyer. Alterion puts discovery, enforcement, audit and cost in one platform, so auditors get evidence on request and spend is always in view.

The field

Alterion, side by side.

Bolted on

Microsoft Agent 365

Agent 365 extends Microsoft's controls to agents in the Microsoft 365 tenant.

See across every cloud, vendor, and team in days, not months.

Alterion

Built for AI

Designed for AI agent governance from day one around all six principles: every agent found, behavior followed, in line in under 100 ms, data kept inside, one policy over existing controls, and complete.

Why this matters

Our principles enable these solutions:

Control shadow agents

An unregistered agent is found, mapped to an owner and brought under policy while it acts.

The full agent estate

Sanctioned, third-party and never registered, in one inventory with permissions and blast radius.

Enforced at runtime

Each action is evaluated as it begins and gets a verdict: allow, escalate or block.

Sovereign by design

Payloads, logs and risk signals stay inside the enterprise and leave only with its consent.

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