Straiker Launches Discover AI and Defend AI to Secure Enterprise AI Agents
What Happened – Straiker announced two new solutions, Discover AI and Defend AI, aimed at giving security teams visibility into, governance over, and runtime protection for enterprise‑wide AI agents. The offerings automatically inventory coding and productivity agents, detect vulnerable model‑control‑plane (MCP) connections, flag unsafe configurations, and enforce real‑time controls.
Why It Matters for TPRM –
- AI agents now operate with broad, often undocumented, privileges across critical business systems, creating a novel third‑party attack surface.
- Lack of inventory and governance can hide malicious or mis‑configured agents that could exfiltrate data, execute ransomware, or manipulate downstream tools.
- Early adoption of agent‑centric security enables organizations to embed AI risk into existing vendor‑risk frameworks before incidents occur.
Who Is Affected – Enterprises that deploy AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code), productivity agents (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Salesforce Agentforce), and custom agents built on platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Azure Foundry, or Microsoft Copilot Studios.
Recommended Actions –
- Conduct an immediate inventory of all AI agents and associated MCP endpoints in your environment.
- Evaluate Straiker’s Discover AI for automated discovery, vulnerability detection, and policy enforcement.
- Update third‑party risk assessments to include AI‑agent security controls, focusing on permission scopes, data access, and supply‑chain integrity.
Technical Notes –
- Discover AI pulls from a database of 12,000+ MCP vulnerabilities, performs misconfiguration detection, and classifies agent prompts by risk level.
- Defend AI delivers sub‑300 ms latency runtime detection with >98 % accuracy, trained on millions of real‑world agent traces from frontier AI labs and enterprise deployments.
- No specific CVEs are disclosed; the focus is on preventive controls for the emerging AI‑agent ecosystem. Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/23/straiker-discover-ai/