AI-native cybersecurity company Operant AI has unveiled Agent Protector, the first comprehensive security solution designed specifically for the agentic AI era. Agent Protector delivers complete visibility into both managed and unmanaged agents, real-time threat detection with inline blocking, and zero-trust enforcement purpose-built for autonomous AI systems.
The launch reflects the growing gap between the pace of AI agent adoption and existing security frameworks. While AI agents offer significant gains in productivity and automation, they also introduce new challenges around visibility, governance and control—areas where traditional security approaches fall short.
According to Gartner by the end of 2026, an estimated 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific AI agents, up from less than 5% today.
“Agentic AI is forcing financial services to redraw trust boundaries — perimeter-first security breaks down when autonomous agents can traverse apps, APIs, and data stores without a human in the loop. Operant’s real-time protection across the full agent toolchain — from MCP clients and endpoints to live, interactive agentic applications — lets technology leaders move fast without compromising customer privacy, making it a foundational control, rather than an afterthought,” said Suhel Khan, industry veteran head of Cybersecurity at Chargebee.
Rogue AI refers to advanced AI systems, including autonomous agents and chatbots—that operate beyond their intended parameters due to misalignment with human oversight and safety controls. Unlike simple errors or hallucinations, rogue agent behavior may include deception, strategic manipulation, unauthorized access, or harmful actions, raising serious concerns around accountability, security, and AI governance.
One of the key capabilities of Agent Protector is real-time rogue agent intent detection with inline protection. Agent Protector identifies and stops advanced threats in real time by analysing agent risk, trust levels, and behaviour. It detects anomalous tool usage, blocks unauthorized privilege escalation, and identifies signs of persistence or data exfiltration signals before they execute.
Vrajesh Bhavsar, Co-founder and CEO of Operant AI, said: “AI agents are proliferating across enterprises faster than security teams can track them. From cloud-based agents to SaaS environments and custom implementations, organisations face an explosion of autonomous systems with access to sensitive data and critical tools.”
Agent Protector delivers additional critical capabilities that discover the complete agentic landscape across an organisation, including unmanaged agents running in cloud and SaaS environments, development tools, and previously invisible MCP servers, tools, and dependencies. The product creates comprehensive catalogs of user and service account agentic identities, providing security teams with complete visibility into their agent ecosystem across the entire infrastructure.
Based in San Francisco, California, and founded by a team from Apple, VMware, and Google, Operant AI is backed by Felicis and SineWave Ventures.