Portnox introduces Shadow AI endpoint detection and policy enforcement
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Portnox said it added a capability to identify unauthorized AI applications and agents on managed devices and automatically restrict access when they violate policy. The company positioned the update as a way for security and IT teams to close what it described as a visibility gap for “Shadow AI” on endpoints.
Portnox said Shadow AI involves generative AI applications that increasingly operate as autonomous agents, reaching local files, remote resources, and enterprise data with the same permissions as the logged-in user. It said the footprint of such tools can expand faster than most organizations can track.
Portnox said teams can define which generative AI applications are permitted or prohibited, then have Portnox assess and score device risk based on what is installed. The capability can detect generative AI applications and tools, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Cursor, Codex, and Ollama, along with “dozens of other” AI assistants, coding agents, local models, and image-generation tools. When a device violates policy, Portnox can trigger enforcement or remediation based on existing access rules.
In addition to this endpoint detection and control, Portnox said its recently announced “AI agent security capabilities” provide a network-level “kill switch” to restrict or revoke access when an AI agent or other identity becomes risky. Denny LeCompte, CEO of Portnox, said, “AI is simply moving too quickly for security teams to manage it through visibility alone,” and added, “Organizations need to know which AI tools are inside their environment and set policies about which ones they trust and enforce those decisions automatically in real time.”
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