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AI agents are the fastest-moving risk you've ever onboarded.
You didn't hire them. You can't fully supervise them. And they have real access — to your code, your data, your customers' information. They follow instructions you didn't write, from prompts you can't see, at a speed no human can review in time.
Most security tools were built to catch attackers. Agents aren't attackers. They're trusted software doing unpredictable things with permission you gave them. That's a gap nothing in your current stack was designed to close.
"What can it actually reach?"
Agents accumulate access fast and rarely give it back.
"What if it's tricked?"
One poisoned prompt can redirect a helpful agent into a harmful one.
"Would I even know?"
By the time a dashboard alerts, the data's already gone.
Why the obvious answers don't work
The two tools you'd reach for first won't save you.
When the agent-risk problem lands on a leader's desk, two answers usually show up. Both feel reasonable. Both leave you exposed.
The pitch
Inspect what the agent is asked to do, and block the bad requests.
Why it fails
You're trying to guess intent from words — and prompts lie. Attackers craft injections faster than any filter can learn them, and a perfectly innocent-looking prompt can still produce a harmful action once the agent starts reasoning on its own. You can't enumerate every dangerous instruction, and the prompt isn't where the damage happens anyway.
Watching the words is guessing. You need to govern the behavior.
The pitch
We already have endpoint protection; it'll catch a misbehaving agent.
Why it fails
EDR was built to catch attackers — malware, intrusions, known-bad processes. Your agent is none of those. It's trusted software you authorized, doing exactly what software does: reading files, calling tools, moving data. EDR looks at it and sees a friendly process — and waves it through. Worse, EDR observes and alerts after the fact, often too slow to stop an action that happens at machine speed.
Wrong threat model, and wrong by the time it reacts.
The pitch
Control what an agent is allowed to do — on every action, in real time.
We don't read minds and we don't assume an agent is friendly. We watch every action an agent takes, and the moment one steps outside the boundaries you've set, we stop that single action before it lands. The legitimate work continues. The dangerous move simply never happens.
Both approaches stop at the edge of the problem. One watches the words; the other watches for enemies. Neither controls what a trusted agent is actually allowed to do. That's the only thing that works — and it's the only thing 1stProtect does.
1stProtect controls what an agent does — not what it says.
We don't read minds and we don't assume an agent is friendly. We watch every action an agent takes, in real time, and the moment one steps outside the boundaries you've set, we stop that single action before it lands.
It doesn't matter how the agent was prompted, whether it was tricked, or whether your other tools consider it "trusted." The legitimate work continues. The dangerous move simply never happens.
The same protection covers the AI models and agents you build — so you're protected on both sides of the agent.
Set the rules once.
Decide what each agent is allowed to touch. 1stProtect enforces it on every action, automatically.
Stop the bad move in real time.
Not a report after the fact — the harmful action is blocked as it happens, fast enough that nothing leaks.
Always know what happened.
Every agent action is recorded on the device itself, so you can answer the board, the auditor, and the incident review with certainty.
How it works
Control in three steps.
No new hardware. No slowdown.
Deploy.
Installs across your environment in days — no risky changes to your production systems. Start in watch-only mode so you can see exactly what your agents do before you enforce anything.
Set boundaries.
Define what each agent is allowed to touch. When you're ready, switch from watch-only to enforcement with a single configuration change.
Stay in control.
Agents work freely inside the lines. Anything outside is stopped instantly — online, offline, anywhere.
See It Stop in Real Time
OUR TEAM COMES FROM
The teams that defined modern security — now building what comes next.
Built by the people who built the industry.
Trusted where the stakes are highest.
Design partner scenarios — actual outcomes from early access deployments
"Caught an agent's data-exfiltration attempt before it ever left the machine."
"Blocked 100% of an attack's spread — even with the network physically cut."
"Detected a threat 40 seconds before our existing tools saw anything."
Use cases
Wherever your agents run, you stay in control.
Engineering & ops agents
Let coding and automation agents move fast, without standing access to everything they touch.
Customer-facing & data agents
Keep agents that handle sensitive data from ever sending it somewhere it shouldn't go.
The AI you build
Protect your own models from theft and manipulation — so what you ship stays yours.
Your most sensitive environments
Full control even in air-gapped, regulated, or disconnected systems. No cloud dependency required.
Plays Nice With Your Stack.
1stProtect is a unified enforcement layer with on-host AI forensics. Our SIGMA engine streams high-fidelity telemetry directly to your existing tools via JSON, gRPC, MCP, or Syslog.
- Splunk
- Datadog
- Elastic
- Sumo Logic
- Okta
- Azure AD
- Ping
- JumpCloud
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Slack
- PagerDuty
- Jira
- ServiceNow
Founders' Notes
Engineering logs, release notes, and deep dives from the 1stProtect team.
For your security & engineering team
For the engineers who'll put us through our paces.
Marketing claims are easy. Here's the architecture behind them — SIGMA engine, 22 modules, latency specs, deployment options, and the rigorous case for why prompt filtering and EDR fall short.
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Transmission / FAQ
View Feature Matrix: 1stProtect vs. Legacy EDR