Nudge Security Launches AI Agent Discovery to Tackle Enterprise Shadow AI Risk

New updates have been reported about Nudge Security.

Nudge Security has introduced AI agent discovery capabilities designed to give enterprises immediate visibility into employee-created AI agents, their permissions, and connections to corporate data, positioning the company as a frontrunner in AI security and governance. The new features respond to rising agentic AI adoption on platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, and n8n, where employees frequently grant expansive access rights that have already led 80% of organizations to report data exposure or unauthorized system access risks.

The AI agent discovery release expands Nudge Security’s existing workforce-edge security model, which monitors how employees adopt SaaS and AI tools, by extending that visibility directly into the agent layer without new deployments for current customers integrated with systems like Salesforce and ServiceNow. Security and IT teams can now continuously inventory AI agents, map their permissions and data connections, identify issues such as public exposure, hardcoded credentials, unauthenticated Model Context Protocol links, high-risk integrations, and orphaned agents, and then directly engage the human creators to justify purpose, remediate risks, and enforce guardrails in real time.

Unlike point products built solely for AI agents, Nudge Security leverages its broader dataset of access patterns, identity signals, and behavioral context to deliver prioritized risk insights and clear accountability for each agent, including who created it and who is responsible for ongoing governance. CEO and co-founder Russ Spitler said organizations that build a true inventory of AI agents with risk visibility today will gain a structural advantage as agentic AI becomes the fastest-growing enterprise technology priority and a top concern for nearly half of security professionals.

The new discovery capabilities integrate with Nudge Security’s broader AI governance stack, which already includes discovery of shadow AI applications and users across thousands of providers, detection of sensitive data sharing, visualization of AI data flows, and discovery of MCP server connections. For executives, the launch underscores Nudge Security’s strategic push to be a central control layer for AI and SaaS risk at the workforce edge, enabling rapid AI experimentation while constraining operational, compliance, and data protection exposure across the enterprise.