Where we fit
Where Certiv fits in your stack
On the endpoint, at the agent layer, above the layer EDR watches and the layer your MDM manages. Not instead of either.
Certiv runs on the endpoint at the agent layer, evaluating an AI agent's reasoning, tool calls and data access before an action executes. EDR enforces below the application at the OS layer; MDM manages the device itself. All three are the same machine, at different depths. Certiv also composes with off-endpoint controls. AI gateways, CASB and proxies govern traffic that routes through them, which is precisely the traffic a local model never produces.
One machine, three depths
Every control below runs on the endpoint. What separates them is which layer of it they govern, and only one of those layers holds an agent's action while it is still a proposal.
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Agent layer
CertivWhat the agent decided to do, which tool it reached for, and what data that touches, all evaluated while the action is still a proposal. This is the only layer at which an agent action can be judged before it happens, because it is the only layer where the action exists as intent rather than as a completed syscall.
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OS layer
EDRProcess, file and behavioural telemetry, below the application. Exactly the right place to catch malware, and structurally blind to an agent doing damage through software it is allowed to run. The process is curl or a Python script doing precisely what such a process does.
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Device layer
MDMEnrolment, configuration, posture and identity. It answers which machine this is and who is signed in to it. Certiv deploys through this same channel (Jamf, Intune, Kandji, Workspace ONE) and then governs what the agents on that machine actually do.
What each control already sees
None of these is wrong about its own layer. Each one is answering a different question, and none of them is asked what the agent was trying to do.
AI gateways
LLM API trafficRouting, key custody and cost for LLM API traffic. Runtime assurance governs what the agent does with the answer.
Certiv vs. AI gatewaysCASB
Sanctioned SaaSGoverns SaaS usage and data movement between approved services, not the intent of an agent acting on the endpoint.
Certiv vs. CASBEDR
Processes and filesWatches processes; Certiv watches agent intent. Different threat models, same machine. Run both.
Certiv vs. EDRAgent observability
Instrumented tracesRequires SDK instrumentation and serves developers debugging agents. It records; it does not enforce.
Certiv vs. Agent observabilityAI proxies
HTTP on the wireSees HTTP, not intent, and never sees a local agent. Traffic that does not cross the proxy does not exist to it.
Certiv vs. AI proxiesThe hole is not in any of them
Every control that works by inspecting traffic inherits the same limit: it governs what it can see, and it can only see what routes through it. Every control that works below the application inherits a different one: it sees a sanctioned process behaving like a sanctioned process.
An AI agent is not malware and does not have to touch the network. The decision that matters happens in the reasoning chain , above the OS, and often nowhere near a wire. That is the layer Certiv occupies, and it is the reason this is an addition to a stack rather than a replacement for part of one.
Straight Answers
How Certiv Composes With What You Run
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How Certiv Composes With What You Run
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Where does Certiv sit relative to EDR?
Does Certiv replace anything we already run?
Why can a network control not cover this?
What does Certiv need in order to see an agent?
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