March 17th, 2026

The First Wave of AI

Enterprises are deploying AI faster than security teams can govern it: 76% of employees now use AI tools at work (McKinsey, April 2026), yet most security stacks still enforce policy at the URL layer, blind to what is actually flowing through prompts, responses, and agent tool calls. Sensitive data started moving into AI systems before policy could keep up, and security leaders needed a way to enable adoption without losing visibility or control.

Aurascape was built to solve that problem. We help organizations secure AI use across the three AI surfaces that matter most in the enterprise today: commercial AI, embedded AI, and agentic AI. That means giving security teams broad visibility and consistent control over how AI is being used across browsers, desktop apps, CLI tools, websites, SaaS applications, IDEs, and agentic workflows. It means understanding not just that AI is present, but what data is being shared, what risks are emerging, and what policy should be enforced in real time.

The Next AI Wave Brings New Challenges

Enterprises are already feeling the scale of this problem: nearly 60% of organizations report running AI agents in production (G2, 2025), and over half of those plan to expand scope or budgets within the next 12 months, yet most lack a unified control layer across the full agent-to-tool execution path. Organizations are no longer just using AI. They are building AI applications and agents that can access tools, retrieve data, generate code, and operate across real workflows. Once AI begins connecting to enterprise systems and taking action, the security problem changes fundamentally. Security teams now need to govern not just what users ask AI, but what AI can access, what it can execute, what it can expose, and what it can do once it is connected to the enterprise.

This is where many current approaches fall short. Most of the market still treats AI security as separate categories: one tool for AI usage control, another for MCP gateway enforcement, another for testing, and another for code risk. But agentic AI does not operate in isolated layers, and siloed products do not create a real control model. Each may inspect part of the problem, but none can carry trust, context, and enforcement across the full reasoning-to-action path.

That weakness becomes especially clear with MCP. A standalone MCP gateway can only govern the traffic explicitly routed through it. It may help secure approved MCP server access for sanctioned deployments, but it does not solve the broader enterprise problem. Unsanctioned agents, embedded AI features, local agents, and cloud-hosted tools can still use MCP-related execution paths outside the approved flow. If that traffic never reaches the gateway, it is not governed by the gateway. For a CISO, that means the control can look stronger on paper than it is in practice.

A Zero-Bypass Control Model for Agentic AI

Agentic AI operates across two simultaneous channels: the intelligence channel, where the model reasons and decides, and the tool execution channel, where the agent invokes tools and takes action. Legacy controls see one channel at a time. Without enforcement at both layers, an agent can reason its way past a policy guardrail, invoke a tool, and exfiltrate data before a security team sees the request. A control model that covers both channels is not optional for agentic AI; it is the minimum viable governance posture. A 2026 Gravitee survey found that only 24.4% of organizations have full visibility into which AI agents are communicating with each other, and more than half of all agents run without any security oversight or logging (Gravitee, 2026), which means the gap this architecture closes is not hypothetical.

Aurascape addresses that gap directly with the Zero-Bypass MCP Gateway. Aurascape delivers this by combining the Aurascape MCP Gateway and the Aurascape AI Proxy into one continuous enforcement architecture. The gateway governs approved MCP server access and trusted tool use. The proxy secures the model side of the interaction and verifies trust across MCP-related activity visible to the platform. Together, they create a stronger control model for approved MCP tool use while helping security teams identify and govern untrusted MCP-related activity visible to the platform.

Aurascape connects model-side visibility and policy enforcement with governed tool execution through the gateway. It evaluates what the agent was asked to do, what tool it attempted to invoke, what parameters were used, what came back in the response, and whether that interaction should be allowed, blocked, or sanitized.

Securely Build and Run AI Apps & Agents

Aurascape now adds the core capabilities organizations need to secure how AI is built and how agentic systems operate in production. Aurascape now provides discovery of MCP servers and tool calls, giving security teams direct visibility into the systems agents can reach, the tools exposed to them, and the actions they are attempting to take. Gartner forecasts that 40% of enterprise applications will be integrated with task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025 (Gartner, August 2025), making this kind of discovery capability increasingly critical.

Before release, Aurascape helps teams test custom AI applications and agents to uncover weaknesses, validate behavior, and identify risks before deployment. After release, Aurascape protects live AI interactions with guardrails against toxic or unsafe outputs, jailbreak and role-play bypass attempts, prompt injection and instruction override, code injection via LLM completions, misinformation, and policy violations. Aurascape also adds Code Path and CVE Detection so teams can identify exploitable weaknesses in the code, dependencies, and surrounding application logic that support those AI systems.

And with the Aurascape MCP Gateway and MCP tool signing as part of the Zero-Bypass MCP Gateway architecture, organizations can enforce trusted tool use in production and prevent unsafe or unsanctioned execution paths from slipping past disconnected controls.

What matters is not just each individual capability, but how they work together on one platform. Security teams can now see how agentic systems are connected, test them before release, protect them in production from unsafe interactions and outputs, identify implementation weaknesses around them, and enforce policy once they are live. That gives CISOs a more practical way to govern custom AI applications and agents across the full lifecycle without relying on a patchwork of siloed tools. It also gives them something equally important for operations and compliance: a fuller, more auditable record of how AI systems behave, what they attempted to do, what data they touched, and how policy was enforced.

Expanding AI Use Security Alongside Agentic Security

These new capabilities are centered on securing agentic AI and the systems organizations are building, but they also significantly expand the AI use side of the platform. That matters because the same enterprises building AI agents are also dealing with a fast-growing mix of commercial AI apps, embedded AI, browser-based AI, desktop tools, CLI tools, and unsanctioned agents already in use across the business. According to a BlackFog survey of 2,000 workers at companies with more than 500 employees, 49% report using AI tools not sanctioned by their employer — and 33% have shared enterprise research or datasets with those tools (BlackFog, January 2026). Customers need to secure both sides of that reality, not choose between them.

That is why Aurascape now adds significantly broader app coverage, with support for tens of thousands of AI apps and counting. It improves the speed and freshness of discovery so security teams can keep pace with how quickly the AI landscape changes. It introduces custom app signatures so customers can identify and govern unique or environment-specific AI tools without waiting for a vendor catalog update. And it adds local agent discovery, which is especially important as more agentic activity moves onto endpoints and into internal environments where it may never appear as normal web traffic.

For security teams, local agent discovery is more than just another visibility feature. It closes an emerging blind spot. Aurascape can now see both agent traffic inline and agent presence on-device, across sanctioned and unsanctioned environments. Whether an agent is running in the cloud or on an employee laptop, the organization can see it, understand it, and govern it. That is a meaningful shift because it extends AI security beyond the network and into the places where agentic behavior is increasingly happening.

The same principle applies across embedded AI. Employees are no longer only using AI in standalone tools labeled as AI. They are encountering it inside the applications they already use every day, from SaaS products and websites to browsers and developer environments. That is why broad visibility and consistent control matters so much. Security teams need to see the AI interaction itself, not just the surrounding application, and they need to enforce policy consistently whether AI appears in a public assistant, an embedded feature, or an agent workflow.

The bigger takeaway is that Aurascape now gives organizations a more complete control model for AI. Aurascape helps customers secure the AI employees use and the AI developers build on the same platform. That means less fragmentation, fewer gaps between controls, and a stronger ability to govern AI from prompt to tool call to execution. Instead of stitching together separate products for AI usage control, MCP governance, testing, and runtime defense, security teams can apply one platform across the full AI environment.

The first wave of AI security was about governing prompts and protecting data. The next wave is about governing access, actions, tool use, and trust across agentic systems. Cisco’s 2025 AI Readiness Index found that 83% of companies plan to deploy AI agents, yet only 31% say they are fully equipped to control and secure those systems (Cisco, 2025) — and Deloitte’s 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise report found only one in five companies has a mature model for governance of autonomous AI agents (Deloitte, 2026). That is the shift Aurascape is built to address.

Conclusion

Aurascape now gives organizations a single platform to secure the AI employees use and the AI developers build. That means broader visibility into AI across the enterprise, stronger control over how agentic systems behave, and fewer gaps between disconnected tools. For security leaders, the outcome is straightforward: a more practical way to govern AI as it moves from interaction to action.

To learn more, watch the on-demand launch event recording.