Darktrace, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, announced the launch of Darktrace / SECURE AI, a new behavioral cybersecurity product that enables organizations to securely and confidently integrate and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) within their business environments. The new product has been developed to give organizations real-time visibility and control over AI systems, which is a growing need in the industry to ensure the adoption of secure and governable AI.
Darktrace / SECURE AI leverages the company’s expertise in behavioral AI to monitor and analyze AI behavior, human-to-machine interactions, and agent-to-system interactions. It notifies security teams of abnormal patterns and risks that are not typically detected by security controls, allowing organizations to govern AI systems without hindering adoption.
As AI moves rapidly from experimentation to production, many organizations lack adequate visibility into how AI systems actually behave, where they’re deployed and what data they can access. Darktrace / SECURE AI bridges this gap by continuously observing AI interactions across enterprise environments including embedded AI in SaaS apps, autonomous agents, and generative AI tools to detect deviations from expected behaviors.
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“AI systems don’t fail like traditional software – they drift, adapt and sometimes behave in unexpected ways,” said Mike Beck, Chief Information Security Officer at Darktrace. “Darktrace has taken a behavioral approach to understanding and securing the unstructured and unpredictable ecosystems of people, data and technology within enterprises for more than a decade. With Darktrace / SECURE AI, we’re applying our behavioral approach to give security teams visibility into what AI is doing, not just what it’s allowed to do, and enabling businesses to innovate with confidence.”
Darktrace / SECURE AI provides Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) with actionable insights and governance capabilities to secure AI adoption effectively. The product integrates with existing security operations and is suitable for both new standalone environments and organizations already using Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™. It supports enterprises that are deploying AI across cloud-hosted models, embedded SaaS features, and agentic workflows in both low- and high-code environments.
The security teams can use Darktrace / SECURE AI for:
- Real-time monitoring of AI usage – Get insights into the usage of prompts, AI sessions, and models on enterprise systems such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce AI capabilities, and more.
- Tracking AI agents and access permissions – Automatically identify active AI agents, their access permissions, and monitor their interactions with enterprise systems, cloud infrastructure, and external environments.
- Evaluating risks of AI development and deployment – Get insights into AI identities, configurations, and permissions in development environments to identify potential misconfigurations or harmful access patterns before they are deployed.
- Uncovering and managing Shadow AI – Detect unauthorized AI tools and manage unsanctioned AI usage in the enterprise before they become blind spots in security.
“Security has always been about behavior,” said Jack Stockdale, Chief Technology Officer at Darktrace. “As AI becomes agentic, prompts become the behavioral layer, encoding intent, context, and downstream actions. If you can’t observe and understand prompt language at runtime, you can’t detect drift, misuse, or emergent behavior. Securing AI without prompt visibility is like securing email without reading the message body. Prompts are to AI what traffic is to networks and identity is to users.”
Research published alongside the launch highlights growing concern among enterprise security professionals about AI risks. According to Darktrace’s internal findings, over three-quarters of cybersecurity leaders are worried about the security implications of AI agents and third-party generative AI tools, citing sensitive data exposure and regulatory risks as top priorities.
As organizations increasingly prioritize AI to drive productivity, competitiveness and innovation, Darktrace / SECURE AI delivers comprehensive AI governance and security without hindering adoption helping enterprise leaders deploy AI technologies safely and responsibly at scale.
