For CISOs & IT Leaders

Enable AI agents at enterprise scale, without losing control.

CISOs are asked to enable automation everywhere. Certiv sets the operating model: productivity for users, governance for leadership, protection for the business, on one control plane.

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The 2026 CIO Agenda

What you’re being measured on. Where Certiv fits.

2026: AI moves from experimentation to operating model. CIOs must deliver outcomes while managing risk, cost, and control.

01

AI Outcomes That Show Up in the P&L

Beyond pilot purgatory

Business wants ROI, not innovation theater. IT gets asked to enable automation faster than it can govern it.

How Certiv Helps

  • Standardize agent approval, deployment, and monitoring so initiatives scale beyond pilots
  • Repeatable guardrails so teams ship automation faster with fewer escalations
  • Quantify agent usage to prove P&L impact
02

Risk Readiness in an Agentic World

The CIO owns more of it now

AI expands the risk surface: data exposure, autonomy, model dependencies, compliance. The CIO owns it now, not just the CISO.

How Certiv Helps

  • Central policy for who, what, and where agents act
  • Full visibility into what ran, what it touched, what changed
  • Audit-first posture: risk quantifiable and reportable
03

Control Across Identities & Endpoints

Shadow automation is real

Agents run on endpoints, in browsers, inside user workflows, often without IT knowing. Exceptions become the norm.

How Certiv Helps

  • Consistent agent access and authorization across every endpoint
  • Trust-but-verify: enable teams, verify actions, enforce policy
  • Govern shadow automation before it becomes a security event
04

Reduce Operational Drag at Scale

40% of apps go agentic by year-end

Gartner projects 40% of enterprise apps embed agents by 2026. Without governance: chaos or blanket bans.

How Certiv Helps

  • Shared governance primitives: registration, policy, monitoring
  • Segment and scope agent access without slowing deployment
  • Keep adoption moving without unmanaged risk
05

Cost Pressure & Vendor Consolidation

FinOps mindset everywhere

57% face productivity pressure. 52% face cost cuts. Vendor sprawl and ungoverned AI spending compound both.

How Certiv Helps

  • Unified agent governance instead of point tools per team
  • Usage analytics and cost attribution for AI workloads
  • Shared responsibility that reduces duplicate governance effort
Trust But Verify

The shared responsibility model CIOs need

The answer isn’t “allow vs. block”: it’s shared responsibility. Certiv is where IT, business, and security meet.

CERTIV SHARED CONTROL PLANE POLICY • IDENTITY • VISIBILITY • ENFORCEMENT IT Sets the guardrails Business Teams Move fast in the sandbox Security Verifies continuously Agents & Apps Endpoints Browsers GOVERNED AUTOMATION SURFACE

IT

Sets the guardrails

  • Policy definition
  • Identity controls
  • Auditability
  • Platform standards

Business Teams

Move fast inside the sandbox

  • Approved actions
  • Bounded access
  • Observable runs
  • Self-service automation

Security

Verifies continuously

  • Runtime monitoring
  • Threat detection
  • Compliance evidence
  • Incident response
The New Agent Frontier

Endpoints and browsers are the new governance gap

More automation runs at the edge: end-user workflows, agentic apps, AI-enabled browsers. Gartner warns agentic browsers can expose sensitive data and take autonomous actions in authenticated sessions unless centrally governed.

End-User Workflows

Agents embedded in productivity tools, email, and apps, acting for individual users.

Agentic Applications

Enterprise apps evolving from display-only to action-taking: querying data, invoking APIs, deciding autonomously.

Agentic Browsers

AI-enabled browsers that expose sensitive data to cloud backends and act autonomously in authenticated sessions.

Measurable Outcomes

Proof points CISOs care about

Concrete, measurable outcomes for the board.

01

Faster rollout

Approved automations deployed with reduced friction and fewer escalations

02

Fewer exceptions

Standard guardrails replace one-off security reviews and manual approvals

03

Clear audit trails

Every agent action traceable: what it did, why, what it accessed

04

Fewer incidents

Reduced risk exposure from uncontrolled tools, browsers, and shadow automation

FAQ

Questions IT Leaders Ask

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How does Certiv help IT teams manage shadow AI and agent sprawl?
Certiv discovers every agent, copilot, and automation running across endpoints, sanctioned or not. It inventories what's in use, by whom, and what it does, so IT can govern access without blanket bans.
Can Certiv support a shared responsibility model for AI governance?
Certiv is built for shared responsibility. IT sets guardrails: policy, identity, audit standards. Business teams move fast with approved actions and self-service automation. Security verifies continuously with runtime monitoring and compliance evidence.
How does Certiv help IT leaders demonstrate AI ROI to the business?
Certiv quantifies agent usage with outcomes tied to business results. Show P&L impact by initiative, track adoption trends, identify which teams need support, and prove AI investment is paying off.
How do I get started?
Start with your highest-risk workflows. Certiv deploys incrementally: govern one team first, expand from there. Typical stakeholders: IT, Security, Data/AI, and Compliance. Certiv coordinates them without blocking each other.
What does "policy" mean in practice for agents?
Policies define what agents access, what tools they invoke, what data they touch, and when actions need approval. RBAC for autonomous systems: declarative, enforceable, auditable.
Next Steps

Get the operating model for AI agents at scale

Building a governance framework, planning a rollout, or consolidating agent controls: start here.

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