<style>

/* ---------- Primary button ---------- */

.button_bg {
  background-color: #a83018;
  transition: background-color 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);
}

.button:hover .button_bg,
.button:focus-visible .button_bg,
.submit-wrapper:hover .button_bg,
.submit-wrapper:focus-within .button_bg {
  background-color: #d24a2f;
}

/* ---------- Secondary button ---------- */

.button_bg.secondary {
  background-color: var(--neutral--900);
  border: 1px solid var(--neutral--500);
  transition:
    background-color 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1),
    border-color 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);
}

.button:hover .button_bg.secondary,
.button:focus-visible .button_bg.secondary,
.submit-wrapper:hover .button_bg.secondary,
.submit-wrapper:focus-within .button_bg.secondary {
  background-color: var(--neutral--700);
  border-color: var(--neutral--300);
}

</style>
[fs-list-field]:has(> *),
.tag-component {
  transition: background-color 0.25s ease, border-color 0.25s ease;
}

.fs-list-active .tag-component,
.tag-component.fs-list-active {
  background-color: #d24a2f;
  border-color: #d24a2f;
}
Solution · Shadow Agents

Find and control shadow agents.

Discover every agent across endpoints, SaaS and cloud, tie each one to an owner, and enforce policy in the path. No code changes. Nothing leaves your walls.

Supported by

The problem

Agents arrived through every door at once, and most have no owner.

Coding agents on laptops, agents inside your SaaS, serverless agents in the cloud, containers in your clusters. Each reaches systems through credentials nobody can attribute, and the tools you already own each cover one surface. The shadow agents fall through the seams.
The solution

See every agent and who owns it

Sensors across endpoints, SaaS and cloud map each agent, its owner, and the systems it can reach. Coding agents on laptops, agents inside your SaaS, serverless agents in cloud AI, all in one inventory. No agent code changes, no SDKs.
One scan
No code changes
Shadow agents included

Industry signal

82

%

of enterprises have unknown AI agents running in their environment.

Cloud Security Alliance, 2026

Enforce in the path, not after the fact

Policy is set once and applied as agents act. Every prompt, tool call and response gets a verdict before it runs, in under 100 milliseconds. Off-policy actions are blocked, not written up.
Verdict in <100ms
Every prompt, tool call, response
Blocked, not logged

Industry signal

43

%

of breaches this year involved shadow AI, more than double last year.

IBM, 2026

Control them all from one place

One view of the whole estate: activity, risk and control, across every agent and environment. One place to set policy, and one place to act on all of it at once.
One policy
Any cloud, any device
Runs in your stack

Industry signal

150

k+

agents per F500 enterprise by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025.

Gartner

From the field

What security and AI leaders tell us

“

I haven't seen a solution closer to what we need.

CISO, global technology company

“

The true discovery of every agent, the risk Wiz hasn't solved.

CIO, global cybersecurity firm

“

I want one singular control plane for all agents.

CTO, national energy utility

Why Alterion

Why Alterion is ahead for shadow agents

01

Independent of any vendor's stack

One runtime layer across every cloud, framework and device, not just the agents built on one platform.

02

Finds the agents nobody registered

Discovery from the runtime, so shadow and third-party agents show up next to the ones you instrumented.

03

Enforces in the path

A verdict before the action runs, in under 100ms, instead of a report after it did.
The industry

What the industry is saying about shadow agents

65

%

of enterprises hit an AI agent-related incident in the past year.

Cloud Security Alliance, 2026

61

%

of AI agent incidents resulted in data exposure.

Cloud Security Alliance, 2026

92

%

of AI-related breaches lacked any AI access controls.

IBM, 2026

Sources: Cloud Security Alliance, 2026 · IBM, 2026

Tech specs

Detection latency

<100ms

Agent recall

>95%

Classification precision

97%

Deployment

Read-only, your VPC

Code changes

None

Ready to protect yourself from rogue agent activity?

See it on your own estate. A read-only deployment in your VPC, live in days.
The platform

Products solving this problem

Runtime control plane

Draco

Discover, secure and govern every agent in real time, in one place.
Runtime intelligence

Helix

Runs entirely in your environment, reading agent behaviour to judge intent and risk.
FAQ

Common questions about shadow agents


Sensors across endpoints, SaaS and cloud observe activity at the runtime, so shadow and third-party agents surface next to the ones you instrumented. Discovery does not depend on an agent being declared.

No. Discovery and enforcement both work from the runtime, with no agent code changes and no SDKs.

Those map cloud posture and known assets. Alterion discovers agents by what they do at runtime, attributes each to an owner, and enforces in the path, including the shadow agents those tools do not see.

Nowhere. Alterion runs entirely in your environment, in your VPC or on-prem, models included. Nothing leaves your walls.

A single read-only scan in your VPC produces the inventory. Deployment is days, not months.

Solutions

Explore all our solutions

One control plane.
Nothing leaves your walls.

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