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SAN JOSE, Calif. — July 1, 2026 — PointGuard AI today announced it has been recognized in the Gartner Coolest Vendor Innovations in AI Software Security* report for its Agent Mission Control solution. The report profiles innovative technologies designed to help organizations address the emerging security risks associated with autonomous AI agents.
"We're honored to be recognized for our innovation in AI agent security," said Pravin Kothari, Founder and CEO of PointGuard AI. "Our mission is to help customers adopt autonomous AI with confidence by giving every AI agent a verifiable identity, validating actions before execution, and stopping risky behavior before it impacts the business."
Autonomous AI agents are rapidly becoming part of enterprise software, enabling organizations to automate complex workflows, access business systems, and perform tasks with increasing levels of autonomy. As adoption accelerates, organizations require new security controls that provide visibility, governance, and runtime protection for these systems.
PointGuard AI's Agent Mission Control helps organizations securely deploy and govern autonomous AI agents by providing runtime controls throughout the agent lifecycle. As described in the Gartner report:
"PointGuard AI's Agent Mission Control product delivers verifiable identities for AI agents, validates actions before execution and provides real-time containment of agentic behavioral anomalies."
Agent Mission Control provides organizations with capabilities including:
- Verifiable identities for AI agents
- Validation of agent actions before execution
- Real-time monitoring of agent behavior
- Policy enforcement and runtime governance
- Real-time containment of anomalous agent behavior
The solution is designed to help organizations deploy autonomous AI agents while maintaining governance and operational oversight. It also supports alignment with leading AI security and governance frameworks, including OWASP, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act.
Agent Mission Control is part of the PointGuard AI platform, which helps organizations secure AI applications, models, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystems across development and production environments.
For more information about PointGuard AI Agent Mission Control, visit www.pointguardai.com.
About PointGuard AI
PointGuard AI secures the complete enterprise AI lifecycle, helping organizations discover, govern, test, and protect AI applications, models, autonomous agents, and MCP ecosystems. Its platform combines AI discovery, AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), automated AI red teaming, runtime protection, data security, and Agent Mission Control to help organizations accelerate AI adoption securely.
*Gartner, Coolest Vendor Innovations in AI Software Security, Aaron Lord, Meghan Hollis, Manjunath Bhat, 1 July 2026.
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