Endpoint AI Agent Security

Endpoint AI agent security is policy enforcement and visibility applied at the point an AI agent actually executes: on the endpoint itself, rather than at a network chokepoint a proxy or gateway happens to sit on.

Most existing controls, CASB, secure web gateways, and LLM API proxies, watch traffic bound for hosted AI vendors. That misses a growing share of what agents do: acting directly on the device, calling a model that runs locally, or working through a CLI tool with no required network hop to inspect. AI Agent Assurance closes that gap by intercepting and evaluating each agent action where it happens, on the endpoint, before it runs.

AI agents increasingly run directly on the endpoint instead of purely through a hosted API. Desktop coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor read files, run shell commands, and call tools on the machine itself. Browser extensions act on the pages a user has open. CLI tools execute with the permissions of whoever is logged in.

None of that requires a network hop that a proxy or gateway can inspect. AI Agent Assurance on the endpoint intercepts these actions where they execute, evaluating each tool call, file access, and command against policy before it runs, regardless of which application or framework issued it.

Local AI agent security covers agents that call a model running on the device itself, through runtimes like Ollama or LM Studio, instead of a hosted API. Local inference happens entirely between processes on the machine, so it produces no hosted-model API request for a network tool to inspect.

A CASB, secure web gateway, or LLM gateway that only watches traffic to known AI vendors has nothing to see: there was no call to see. Certiv Scout finds local runtimes and installed models on the endpoint directly, then applies policy to the agent actions those local models drive.

AI agent endpoint visibility means knowing which agents are installed and active on every device, from the endpoint itself, not inferred from what happens to cross a network path. Certiv discovers agents, local model runtimes, and shadow automation across the fleet from a single install.

For each one, Scout shows what it did: the actions it took, the policy each action hit, and the outcome. That comes from running at the same vantage point the agent has, on the endpoint, rather than reconstructing activity after the fact from logs a proxy happened to capture.