AI Agent Runtime Governance

Overview

Runtime governance for AI agents enforces policies at action time (approve/redirect/block), spanning discovery, session inspection, and guardian-agent patterns.

Timeline

• 2026-08-03: zenity $125M Series C reinforces intent-aware allow/modify/block category (2026-08-03-zenity-series-c-official)

• 2026-07-29/30: onyx-security $113MSeriesB($640M) (2026-07-31-onyx-security-113m-ai-agent-control)

• 2026-07-20: neo-security $100M control-layer funding

• 2026-07-30: okta/permiso-security — complementary identity/ITDR layer

Key Players

• onyx-security
• neo-security
• okta

Analysis

Funding and M&A both accelerating: startups build control planes; incumbents bolt on ITDR. Anthropic eval breaches reinforce demand narrative.

Related Topics

• ai-agent-security
• agent-control-plane
• identity-security-agentic-era