OS-level agentic AI security

Agentic Access Management

Ring Zero enforces least-privilege access for every AI agent — at the OS level, underneath the model. Every file, every credential, every outbound connection. Observed, enforced, and tamper-proof.

Ring Zero Security — JIT access & enforcement demo

Visibility, enforcement, and audit — in one platform

Traditional security tools were built for human users. Ring Zero was built for agents. OS-level interception means no SDK integrations, no agent modifications, and no workarounds.

Live Session — claude-code-session-42
2 agents • 3 blocked
127
Events
3
Blocked
62/100
Risk score
09:41:02Clauderead/src/auth/tokens.rslow
09:41:05Claudewrite/etc/passwdhighBLOCK
09:41:07Cursorexeccurl api.stripe.com/chargesmed
09:41:09Clauderead~/.ssh/id_rsahighBLOCK
09:41:12Cursorwrite/tmp/output.jsonlow
09:41:15Codexexecgit push origin mainmed

Real-time Session Dashboard

Every active AI agent session across your org — who's running what, under which policy, right now. One-click approve or deny.

Claude Code
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
OpenClaw
Claude Code
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
OpenClaw
Gemini
Windsurf
Devin
Codex
Gemini
Windsurf
Devin
Codex

Works with Any Agent

Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, custom LLM agents. Ring Zero intercepts at the OS level — no SDK changes, no config.

2 divergences detected
claude-code · 09:41
Declared intentObserved behavior
read/src/auth/session.rs
write/tmp/output.json
execcargo build --release
read/src/auth/session.rs
+read~/.ssh/id_rsa
write/tmp/output.json
+execcurl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data
execcargo build --release

Intent vs Behavior Diff

Declared intent vs. observed behavior — cryptographically signed. Instant alert when an agent diverges from its declared scope.

JIT Access Requests
1 pending
Claude Codehigh
read ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Deploy script needs SSH key for remote push

Pending approvalTTL 120s
Cursormed
exec pg_dump production
Granted

Schema migration requires DB snapshot

Active grantTTL 300s
187s left
Codexmed
write /etc/hosts

Local dev domain routing

Expired

JIT Ephemeral Access

Time-boxed access grants that activate on demand and revoke automatically. No standing privilege. No forgotten credentials.

When your auditor asks what your AI agent accessed last Tuesday — with Ring Zero, you pull up the session and prove it. Without it, you guess.

Ring Zero Security
Ring Zero Security

The control plane for agentic access

Answer the three questions every auditor will ask.

What was the agent allowed to do? What did it actually do? Can you prove it stayed in scope?

Built for the age of AI agents

The organizations that govern their AI agents now will have clean records, defensible policies, and no regrets when regulators catch up.

ringzero-daemon — sudo
$ sudo rz setup
Installing eBPF kernel hooks...
Loading LSM programs (6 hooks)...
✓ ringzero-daemon.service active
$ sudo rz status
Driver● connected
Hooks6 / 6 active
Agents4 monitored
Events/s23
Blocked2 today
Ring level0 (kernel)
Intercepting at ring 0 — no workarounds possible

OS-Level Enforcement

Ring Zero sits underneath every agent at the OS level. There is no workaround — enforcement happens before any application-level bypass is possible.

Fleet · 3 orgs · 12 agents
live
claude-code
alice @ acme
allowed
312 ev
cursor
bob @ acme
blocked
87 ev
copilot
charlie @ beta
escalate
54 ev
codex
diana @ gamma
allowed
203 ev
windsurf
eve @ acme
allowed
441 ev
↑ real-time · updated 1s ago

Global Fleet Visibility

One dashboard for every agent session across your entire organization — on-prem, cloud, or hybrid.

Limited spots available

Become a Design Partner

We're working with a small group of forward-thinking security and engineering teams to shape the future of AI agent governance. Design partners get early access, direct input on the roadmap, and founding customer pricing.

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Early Access

First access to every new feature as it ships — including eBPF kernel hooks, JIT access controls, and SIEM integrations.

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Shape the Roadmap

Bi-weekly calls with the Ring Zero engineering team. Your real-world use cases directly influence what we build next.

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Founding Pricing

Lock in significantly reduced pricing before public launch. Design partners are grandfathered into the best rate we'll ever offer.

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What the industry is saying

Security leaders, CISOs, and researchers on the agentic AI risk landscape.

The lethal trifecta for AI agents is access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally.Together, these create the perfect storm for exploitation. If your agent combines these three features, an attacker can easily trick it into accessing your private data and sending it to that attacker.

Simon Willison

Simon Willison

Software Engineer & AI Security Researcher

AI agents are not software in the conventional sense. They are autonomous actors inside the organization —non-deterministic by design. For CISOs, agentic AI security is now one of their most significant and least-understood challenges.

Jeff Pollard

Jeff Pollard

VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Machine identities already outnumber human identities 82 to 1. When AI agents enter that equation,the identity attack surface doesn't grow — it explodes. Every agent is a credential, and every credential is a potential breach.

Sounil Yu

Sounil Yu

CISO, JupiterOne

The lethal trifecta for AI agents is access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally.Together, these create the perfect storm for exploitation. If your agent combines these three features, an attacker can easily trick it into accessing your private data and sending it to that attacker.

Simon Willison

Simon Willison

Software Engineer & AI Security Researcher

AI agents are not software in the conventional sense. They are autonomous actors inside the organization —non-deterministic by design. For CISOs, agentic AI security is now one of their most significant and least-understood challenges.

Jeff Pollard

Jeff Pollard

VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Machine identities already outnumber human identities 82 to 1. When AI agents enter that equation,the identity attack surface doesn't grow — it explodes. Every agent is a credential, and every credential is a potential breach.

Sounil Yu

Sounil Yu

CISO, JupiterOne

The lethal trifecta for AI agents is access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally.Together, these create the perfect storm for exploitation. If your agent combines these three features, an attacker can easily trick it into accessing your private data and sending it to that attacker.

Simon Willison

Simon Willison

Software Engineer & AI Security Researcher

AI agents are not software in the conventional sense. They are autonomous actors inside the organization —non-deterministic by design. For CISOs, agentic AI security is now one of their most significant and least-understood challenges.

Jeff Pollard

Jeff Pollard

VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Machine identities already outnumber human identities 82 to 1. When AI agents enter that equation,the identity attack surface doesn't grow — it explodes. Every agent is a credential, and every credential is a potential breach.

Sounil Yu

Sounil Yu

CISO, JupiterOne

The lethal trifecta for AI agents is access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally.Together, these create the perfect storm for exploitation. If your agent combines these three features, an attacker can easily trick it into accessing your private data and sending it to that attacker.

Simon Willison

Simon Willison

Software Engineer & AI Security Researcher

AI agents are not software in the conventional sense. They are autonomous actors inside the organization —non-deterministic by design. For CISOs, agentic AI security is now one of their most significant and least-understood challenges.

Jeff Pollard

Jeff Pollard

VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Machine identities already outnumber human identities 82 to 1. When AI agents enter that equation,the identity attack surface doesn't grow — it explodes. Every agent is a credential, and every credential is a potential breach.

Sounil Yu

Sounil Yu

CISO, JupiterOne

Organizations that defend agentic AI only at the model layer — through system prompts and safety filters — are operating on the same layer as the attack.Effective containment requires controls that operate independently of the model.

Heather Adkins

Heather Adkins

VP of Security Engineering, Google

When agents are talking to agents, your humans are out of the loop at that point.How are you going to protect against a world where there are rogue AI agents in your environment? MCP and A2A protocols open the door to entirely new classes of risk.

Mike Britton

Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal AI

Autonomy combined with authority creates behavioral risks, not just risks associated with code.Autonomous agents in production with no kill switch and no audit trail can cause silent, systemic failures.

Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson

Co-founder & CTO, DryRun Security

Organizations that defend agentic AI only at the model layer — through system prompts and safety filters — are operating on the same layer as the attack.Effective containment requires controls that operate independently of the model.

Heather Adkins

Heather Adkins

VP of Security Engineering, Google

When agents are talking to agents, your humans are out of the loop at that point.How are you going to protect against a world where there are rogue AI agents in your environment? MCP and A2A protocols open the door to entirely new classes of risk.

Mike Britton

Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal AI

Autonomy combined with authority creates behavioral risks, not just risks associated with code.Autonomous agents in production with no kill switch and no audit trail can cause silent, systemic failures.

Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson

Co-founder & CTO, DryRun Security

Organizations that defend agentic AI only at the model layer — through system prompts and safety filters — are operating on the same layer as the attack.Effective containment requires controls that operate independently of the model.

Heather Adkins

Heather Adkins

VP of Security Engineering, Google

When agents are talking to agents, your humans are out of the loop at that point.How are you going to protect against a world where there are rogue AI agents in your environment? MCP and A2A protocols open the door to entirely new classes of risk.

Mike Britton

Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal AI

Autonomy combined with authority creates behavioral risks, not just risks associated with code.Autonomous agents in production with no kill switch and no audit trail can cause silent, systemic failures.

Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson

Co-founder & CTO, DryRun Security

Organizations that defend agentic AI only at the model layer — through system prompts and safety filters — are operating on the same layer as the attack.Effective containment requires controls that operate independently of the model.

Heather Adkins

Heather Adkins

VP of Security Engineering, Google

When agents are talking to agents, your humans are out of the loop at that point.How are you going to protect against a world where there are rogue AI agents in your environment? MCP and A2A protocols open the door to entirely new classes of risk.

Mike Britton

Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal AI

Autonomy combined with authority creates behavioral risks, not just risks associated with code.Autonomous agents in production with no kill switch and no audit trail can cause silent, systemic failures.

Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson

Co-founder & CTO, DryRun Security

AI is the single biggest driver of change in cybersecurity today. The threat is not just AI being used against us —it is the unintended exposure created by AI tools operating inside our own environments.

Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna

CEO, IBM

The likelihood of an agentic AI-driven data breach in 2026 is high.We must classify threats as human or AI-originated — the response playbooks are fundamentally different. Containing AI risks requires rethinking how we define the trust perimeter.

Neil Thacker

Neil Thacker

Global Privacy & Data Protection Officer, Netskope

Defenses that live inside the model — system prompts, fine-tuning, safety filters — operate on the same layer as the attack.They are part of the conversational context, which means they can be overridden by sufficiently crafted input.

Tyler Shields

Tyler Shields

CMO & Security Strategist, Corellium

AI is the single biggest driver of change in cybersecurity today. The threat is not just AI being used against us —it is the unintended exposure created by AI tools operating inside our own environments.

Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna

CEO, IBM

The likelihood of an agentic AI-driven data breach in 2026 is high.We must classify threats as human or AI-originated — the response playbooks are fundamentally different. Containing AI risks requires rethinking how we define the trust perimeter.

Neil Thacker

Neil Thacker

Global Privacy & Data Protection Officer, Netskope

Defenses that live inside the model — system prompts, fine-tuning, safety filters — operate on the same layer as the attack.They are part of the conversational context, which means they can be overridden by sufficiently crafted input.

Tyler Shields

Tyler Shields

CMO & Security Strategist, Corellium

AI is the single biggest driver of change in cybersecurity today. The threat is not just AI being used against us —it is the unintended exposure created by AI tools operating inside our own environments.

Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna

CEO, IBM

The likelihood of an agentic AI-driven data breach in 2026 is high.We must classify threats as human or AI-originated — the response playbooks are fundamentally different. Containing AI risks requires rethinking how we define the trust perimeter.

Neil Thacker

Neil Thacker

Global Privacy & Data Protection Officer, Netskope

Defenses that live inside the model — system prompts, fine-tuning, safety filters — operate on the same layer as the attack.They are part of the conversational context, which means they can be overridden by sufficiently crafted input.

Tyler Shields

Tyler Shields

CMO & Security Strategist, Corellium

AI is the single biggest driver of change in cybersecurity today. The threat is not just AI being used against us —it is the unintended exposure created by AI tools operating inside our own environments.

Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna

CEO, IBM

The likelihood of an agentic AI-driven data breach in 2026 is high.We must classify threats as human or AI-originated — the response playbooks are fundamentally different. Containing AI risks requires rethinking how we define the trust perimeter.

Neil Thacker

Neil Thacker

Global Privacy & Data Protection Officer, Netskope

Defenses that live inside the model — system prompts, fine-tuning, safety filters — operate on the same layer as the attack.They are part of the conversational context, which means they can be overridden by sufficiently crafted input.

Tyler Shields

Tyler Shields

CMO & Security Strategist, Corellium

We are embedding AI agents into everything — browsers, email, phones, productivity suites — without thinking about the attack surface we're creating.Every AI agent with access to your data is a potential insider threat waiting for the right prompt injection.

Caleb Sima

Caleb Sima

Chair, Cloud Security Alliance AI Working Group

We are embedding AI agents into everything — browsers, email, phones, productivity suites — without thinking about the attack surface we're creating.Every AI agent with access to your data is a potential insider threat waiting for the right prompt injection.

Caleb Sima

Caleb Sima

Chair, Cloud Security Alliance AI Working Group

We are embedding AI agents into everything — browsers, email, phones, productivity suites — without thinking about the attack surface we're creating.Every AI agent with access to your data is a potential insider threat waiting for the right prompt injection.

Caleb Sima

Caleb Sima

Chair, Cloud Security Alliance AI Working Group

We are embedding AI agents into everything — browsers, email, phones, productivity suites — without thinking about the attack surface we're creating.Every AI agent with access to your data is a potential insider threat waiting for the right prompt injection.

Caleb Sima

Caleb Sima

Chair, Cloud Security Alliance AI Working Group

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Ring Zero enforces least-privilege access for every AI agent — at the OS level, underneath the model. Every file, every credential, every outbound connection. Observed, enforced, and tamper-proof.