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Tenet Security ✓
The First Agent Behavior Security Solution
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Overview
Tenet Security is the agent behavior security platform. It protects AI agents while they act, governing what an agent does after it is authenticated and operating under its authorized intent. This is the behavioral layer that identity, posture, and prompt guardrails cannot see, and it is where the dangerous agentic attacks happen.
A single lightweight sensor runs inside the agent's own process, on the endpoint or in the cloud, with no gateways, proxies, or code changes. It correlates OS activity, network and API calls, and the model's reasoning into one live session timeline. When an action looks dangerous, Agent-Side Simulation (patent pending) predicts the agent's next moves and blocks the harmful step before it executes, backed by a real-time block and a live kill switch that actually stops the agent, not an alert after the fact. The sensor deploys in a few minutes, and a full agent risk assessment takes three hours or less.
Tenet covers coding agents and production cloud agents, protecting tens of millions of end-users across enterprise environments. The founding team built Cisco's AI Defense and leads original agent-security research, including the discovery of the agentjacking and ghostjacking attack classes. That research has been featured in The Hacker News, Dark Reading, and VentureBeat, and the ghostjacking agentic kill chain was presented at DEFCON.
A single lightweight sensor runs inside the agent's own process, on the endpoint or in the cloud, with no gateways, proxies, or code changes. It correlates OS activity, network and API calls, and the model's reasoning into one live session timeline. When an action looks dangerous, Agent-Side Simulation (patent pending) predicts the agent's next moves and blocks the harmful step before it executes, backed by a real-time block and a live kill switch that actually stops the agent, not an alert after the fact. The sensor deploys in a few minutes, and a full agent risk assessment takes three hours or less.
Tenet covers coding agents and production cloud agents, protecting tens of millions of end-users across enterprise environments. The founding team built Cisco's AI Defense and leads original agent-security research, including the discovery of the agentjacking and ghostjacking attack classes. That research has been featured in The Hacker News, Dark Reading, and VentureBeat, and the ghostjacking agentic kill chain was presented at DEFCON.
- Runtime Protection That Stops Attacks Before Execution
- Full Visibility Into Agent Activity Across Endpoints, Containers, And Cloud
- Session Auditing Across Agent Activity
- Agent Discovery Across Infrastructure
- Vendor-neutral Guardrails, Works Across Agent Ecosystems (claude Partner Network, Plus Coverage Referenced For Grok)
- Agent Risk Assessment
- Governance And Observability Capabilities (recognized In Csa's Agentic Ai Security Market Map)
- Original Threat Research, Including The Discovery Of The Agentjacking And Ghostjacking Attack Classes
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Capabilities
What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.
Input
- API
- Code
- Structured data
Output
- API
- Structured data
Highlights
- Agents
- API
Supported features
- Agents
- API
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FAQ 8
What is Tenet Security?
Tenet Security is a security platform built for the agentic era, designed to protect enterprises as they deploy autonomous AI agents. Rather than only detecting attacks after they happen, Tenet focuses on preventing them at runtime, before they execute.
What is "Agentjacking"?
Agentjacking is an attack class discovered and named by Tenet's Threat Labs team, where an AI coding agent is hijacked into running attacker-controlled code, triggered by something as simple as a fake bug report, without malware or a traditional exploit, and often invisible to existing security controls.
What is "GhostJacking"?
GhostJacking is a related attack technique presented by Tenet at DEFCON, showing how AI agents can be taken over using requests that even get blocked by a firewall, exploiting tools already deployed across roughly half of the Fortune 500.
How does Tenet actually prevent attacks instead of just detecting them?
Tenet establishes control at the runtime layer, monitoring and governing agent behavior across endpoints, containers, and cloud so that even unpredictable agent actions behave predictably, and unauthorized actions can be stopped before they execute.
Does Tenet work with Claude?
Yes. Tenet Security is part of the Claude Partner Network, extending agent discovery, session auditing, and runtime protection across the Claude ecosystem.
Who is behind Tenet Security?
Tenet emerged from stealth in mid-2026 with $6 million in seed funding led by The Westly Group (an early SentinelOne investor) and MizMaa Ventures. The company is advised by former CISOs from Robinhood and BNY, among other enterprise security leaders.
Is Tenet Security recognized in the industry?
Yes. Tenet was named a finalist in the 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards in two categories, won the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Agentic AI Security Platform, and appears in the Cloud Security Alliance's Agentic AI Security Market Map across Governance, Observability, and Vendor-Neutral Guardrails.
How do I get started with Tenet?
Tenet doesn't currently offer self-serve signup based on public information, you can request an Agent Risk Assessment or book a demo directly through their site.
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