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ThreatLocker adds external controls for AI agent access and execution

ThreatLocker announced Zero Trust AI Control (ZTAIC), a product that lets security teams grant AI agents only the access they need to do their jobs while keeping other systems out of reach, including when agents invoke other applications and processes to take action. ThreatLocker positions ZTAIC as an external control layer, arguing that AI guardrails alone cannot fully define how an agent behaves. The tool targets organizations that want to deploy agentic AI without surrendering control of their environments.

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ThreatLocker has announced the launch of Zero Trust AI Control (ZTAIC), giving organizations a tool to deploy agentic AI without surrendering control of their environments. ZTAIC enables security teams to give AI agents exactly what they need to perform their jobs while keeping everything else out of reach, even as agents invoke other applications and processes to take action. AI guardrails aspire to define how an agent should behave, but AI continues to find ways … More

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