The AI Agent Control Company

Control what AI agents can do.

See exactly what Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and autonomous workloads can access — and enforce least privilege at runtime, on the machine where each action happens.

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Runtime evidence: what agents attempted — and what was stopped.

Works with CrowdStrike·Microsoft Defender·Existing IAM

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Partners & customers

The gap

Your agent should not automatically inherit everything you can do.

Same login. Different actor. Different authority.

Access Surface
Human — Alice
Autonomous — Claude Code
SOURCE
ALLOW
ALLOW
TESTS
ALLOW
ALLOW
SSH
ALLOW
BLOCK
CLOUD CREDS
ALLOW
BLOCK
PRODUCTION
GOVERNED
BLOCK

Autonomous software changes the security model.

AI agents execute commands, use credentials, invoke tools, and reach production-adjacent systems. A legitimate agent can perform an action your organization never intended to authorize — without being malware.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Defender ask if software is malicious. 1stProtect asks if this autonomous action is allowed — complementary, not a replacement.

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Execution chain

One human session can spawn many autonomous paths — each with its own authority.

Triggers

Developer session

Human intent

Agent task

Autonomous workflow

Autonomous actor

Claude Code · Cursor · Codex

Policy evaluates each attempted action

Interfaces

Shell

Command execution

MCP

Tool invocation

API

Service calls

Browser

Web automation

Reach

Repositories & files

Source and data

Credentials

Secrets & keys

Production & cloud

Operational impact

The same enforcement model at every protection point.

Desktop, laptop, server, and cloud workloads evaluate policy locally when an action is attempted — not via a centralized proxy or a cloud decision on every request.

Coverage + protection points

Desktop

1stProtect icon1stProtect engine
local policy
Agent read repo -> allow

Laptop

1stProtect icon1stProtect engine
local policy
Agent read SSH key -> block

Server

1stProtect icon1stProtect engine
local policy
Agent run kubectl get -> allow

Cloud workload

1stProtect icon1stProtect engine
local policy
Agent delete prod namespace -> block

No centralized enforcement path. Policy decision stays local to each endpoint.

Every endpoint enforces its own runtime policy boundary. Agents can run anywhere, but authorization is evaluated locally at each protected surface.

See what happened. See what was stopped.

Runtime decisions become operational security evidence your team can act on.

Risk inventory with prevented versus detected outcomes, mapped to protection engines and endpoint context.

Detection is not authorization.

EDR / XDR

Is this malicious?

  • Threat detection
  • Behavioral analytics
  • Malware prevention
  • Incident response

1stProtect

Is this action allowed?

  • Actor attribution
  • Action-level policy
  • Resource boundaries
  • Runtime enforcement

Governance platforms answer what should be allowed in policy across your AI estate. 1stProtect answers whether this action executes here, now — on the machine where it happens.

Legitimate user.
Legitimate software.
Legitimate credentials.
Unauthorized action.

Execution enforcement layer

Enforce at the action — locally, before it completes.

AI agent governance platforms focus on discovery, policy, and estate-wide runtime control. 1stProtect stays narrow: normalize the action, evaluate policy locally, and enforce before execution completes.

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What we are not

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    No proxy dependency

    Policy is enforced where the action is attempted — not by routing agent traffic through a gateway.

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    No prompt interpretation required

    Decisions use actor lineage and normalized actions, not guessing intent from prompts or tool payloads.

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    No cloud decision required

    Local policy evaluation returns deterministic outcomes without a cloud round-trip for every request.

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    No EDR replacement

    Threat detection stays in your existing stack; we add authorization for autonomous actors.

Start with evidence. Then enforce.

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