Agent Discovery & Registry for Enterprise AI

AI agents are appearing across enterprise environments through endpoints, cloud providers, APIs, MCP infrastructure, and runtime workflows. Continuous discovery and registration give security teams a reliable way to find unknown agents, establish accountability, and maintain a governed system of record as agentic AI expands.

The Challenge

Autonomous AI agents are appearing faster than security teams can inventory or govern them. Developers can create agents locally, cloud providers can introduce agent services through APIs, and business teams can deploy assistants that connect to tools and data through MCP. Without continuous discovery, organizations may not know which agents are operating, who owns them, what resources they can access, or whether their permissions are appropriate. This creates Shadow Agents operating outside established registration, ownership, and authorization processes; because agents can use credentials, invoke tools, and act across systems, an unidentified agent can become an unmanaged identity with access to sensitive data and enterprise resources.

The Solution

PointGuard AI combines multiple discovery points with a centralized registry to turn agent visibility into an ongoing governance process.

1. Discover agents across the environment. Identify locally created, cloud-hosted, MCP-connected, and runtime agents through endpoint discovery, provider APIs, the MCP Security Gateway, and Agent Mission Control.

2. Register agents centrally. Add newly discovered agents to the PointGuard AI platform and identify unknown resources as Shadow Agents that require review.

3. Assign ownership and permissions. Associate each agent with an accountable owner, appropriate permissions, purpose, identity, tools, and authorized resources to support policy enforcement and auditability.

4. Keep the registry aligned with runtime activity. Use discovery through the MCP Security Gateway and Agent Mission Control to identify new resources and keep governance current as agents and integrations change.

The result is a continuously updated agent registry that helps teams find Shadow Agents, establish accountability, and maintain governance as agentic AI grows across the enterprise.

Use These PointGuard AI Modules

PointGuard AI provides a complete solution for this use case using these capabilities:

Agentic Endpoint Security: Continuously discovers agents and agentic resources across endpoints, provider APIs, MCP infrastructure, and runtime environments, maintaining a centralized inventory and identifying Shadow Agents.
MCP Security Gateway: Discovers agents, MCP servers, tools, and data flows at a central control point while governing agent access to enterprise resources.
Agent Mission Control: Identifies and monitors autonomous agents during runtime, linking agent identity and activity to policy, authorization, and containment controls.