Certiv CEO Jason Needham explained more in a full TechNadu interview in the comments

AI agents are the newest workers in your organization, and the most unpredictable. They read files, call tools, and take actions on real systems, often faster than any human can review and sometimes in ways no one sanctioned. An agent can be your best worker, your worst worker, and your adversary, all at once. Certiv is the runtime assurance layer for AI agents. We install on the compute where agents actually run and govern what they do at the moment they do it. Certiv discovers every agent on the endpoint, sanctioned or shadow, inspects each tool call and file read against your policy, and authorizes or blocks the action before it executes. Not after the data has already left. Before. That means shadow AI you can finally see, data loss you can prevent, and policy that is enforced in practice, not just written in a doc. Certiv runs across macOS, Windows, Linux, and containers, and works across every major model provider, so your controls hold no matter where an agent runs or what powers it. Your teams get to move fast with AI agents, and your security team gets to sleep. Certiv is SOC 2 Type 1 examined, and built on a simple belief: you cannot control these new workers unless you live on the compute where they run. Discover, understand, control, and protect every AI agent, anywhere.

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