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One Platform. 20 Built-In AI Agent Risk Use Cases.

CloudSentry AI continuously discovers, evaluates, and helps you govern every AI agent running across your cloud — grouped into six areas of risk, from foundational inventory to continuous compliance.

Detection Methods

How CloudSentry AI Sees What Others Miss

Three complementary methods, running continuously and working together.

Cloud Configuration Scanning

Read-only connections to Azure, AWS, and GCP continuously inventory every AI-related resource and check its configuration, permissions, location, and tags against policy.

Live Agent Behavior Monitoring

For instrumented agents, we observe what they actually do at runtime — tools called, data touched, destinations reached — and compare it to their normal pattern.

Governance Workflow Tracking

Approval, incident-response, and compliance-evidence workflows built into the platform itself, so decisions that need a human are tracked and enforced — not assumed.

The Full Catalog

All 20 Use Cases

Every finding below draws on real data — cloud configuration, agent behavior, or CloudSentry's own governance workflows.

Foundation
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AI Agent Inventory & Discovery

What we find: Every AI agent running across your connected cloud accounts, and specifically which ones have no registered owner, no documented business purpose, or no completed approval record.

Why it matters: You cannot govern, secure, or budget for what you don't know exists. This is the foundation every other protection in this document is built on — a single, always-current inventory instead of a spreadsheet someone updates twice a year.

Access & Identity
UC-2

Least-Privilege Access Control

What we find: Agents holding wildcard or administrator-level permissions that go beyond what their actual job requires.

Why it matters: The same principle that limits how much damage a single compromised employee credential can do, applied to AI — it caps the worst-case outcome of any one agent going wrong.

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Human Approval for High-Risk Actions

What we find: High-risk actions (financial transactions, destructive operations, permission changes, direct customer communication) that an agent has taken, or is proposing to take, without a recorded human sign-off.

Why it matters: Keeps a person accountable for the decisions that matter most, even as agents do more on their own — essential for both risk management and for defending your practices to a regulator or auditor.

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Tool & API Access Governance

What we find: Agents calling tools or APIs that fall outside your organization's approved catalog.

Why it matters: Prevents “capability creep” — an agent gradually gaining abilities well beyond what it was ever approved to do, often without anyone deciding that should happen.

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Secrets & Credential Protection

What we find: Secrets embedded directly in agent configuration, and credentials that haven't been rotated within your policy window.

Why it matters: Credential compromise is one of the single most common ways any system gets breached — this closes that door specifically for your AI agents.

Data Protection
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Prompt Injection Protection

What we find: Prompt injection attempts that were not successfully blocked by the agent's protective layer.

Why it matters: This is one of the most novel risks unique to AI agents, with no equivalent in traditional software. Left unmanaged it can turn a trusted internal tool against you.

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Sensitive Data Loss Prevention

What we find: Agents classified as handling sensitive data that are communicating with external AI models or services outside your approved list.

Why it matters: Stops your most sensitive data from silently leaking through an AI agent — a critical control for regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI) and for customer trust.

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Agent Memory Governance

What we find: Agent memory kept longer than your retention policy allows, or memory contents that look like they contain a secret or personal information.

Why it matters: Closes an overlooked but very real privacy and data-retention gap that's unique to AI agents with memory — one most organizations haven't thought to look for yet.

Infrastructure
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Network Segmentation for Agent Workloads

What we find: Agent workloads with unrestricted outbound internet access, and production workloads sharing a network with non-production ones.

Why it matters: The network equivalent of watertight compartments on a ship — it limits how far any single problem can spread.

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Egress Control for External AI Services

What we find: Any outbound call an agent makes to a destination outside your approved list of models and services.

Why it matters: A broader safety net than data-loss prevention alone — this is about controlling where your AI agents are allowed to talk to at all, not just what they send.

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Approved Model & Platform Usage

What we find: Agents running on a model that isn't on your approved list, or deployed in a cloud region outside your approved list.

Why it matters: Keeps AI sprawl in check — the same governance discipline already applied to cloud spend and vendor selection, extended to AI models specifically.

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Infrastructure-as-Code Guardrails

What we find: Missing required tags, deployment outside approved regions, exposed public endpoints, and logging or encryption not enabled.

Why it matters: Catches misconfiguration before it becomes an incident — far cheaper and safer than discovering it after something has already gone wrong.

Behavioral Security
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Runtime Behavioral Monitoring

What we find: Abnormal call volume (more than three times an agent's typical baseline), traffic to new or unusual destinations, and activity outside normal business hours.

Why it matters: Turns AI oversight from a one-time check into ongoing behavioral security — the same principle behind fraud detection and intrusion detection, applied to AI agents.

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Output Validation

What we find: Knowledge-based answers delivered without a supporting source, and outputs touching a regulated topic (financial, medical, or legal advice) that weren't routed through review.

Why it matters: Protects against the reputational, legal, and financial fallout of an agent confidently saying the wrong thing to a customer, employee, or regulator.

Governance
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Agent Lifecycle Management

What we find: Agents with no recent activity that are still marked active, and agents that are overdue for their periodic re-certification.

Why it matters: Closes the classic “orphaned account” problem — a well-known source of breaches in traditional IT — for AI agents specifically.

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Incident Response for AI Agents

What we find: Active incidents involving an agent where the incident-response playbook (disable, revoke access, isolate, preserve evidence) has not yet been triggered.

Why it matters: AI agents need their own incident-response muscle — this makes sure that muscle actually fires when needed, instead of only existing on paper.

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Data Residency & Regulatory Compliance

What we find: Agents processing data in a region outside your approved or legally required list.

Why it matters: Data residency violations carry real regulatory and financial consequences — this gives you continuous, provable compliance instead of a point-in-time audit finding.

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Approval Workflow for New Agent Use Cases

What we find: Production agents missing a completed intake record covering purpose, data handled, model used, tools granted, autonomy level, business owner, and risk rating.

Why it matters: Moves AI governance from cleanup-after-the-fact to review-before-launch — the difference between prevention and damage control.

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Autonomy Tier Classification

What we find: Agents holding production-impacting capabilities (administrative access, deployment rights, payment execution) that are still classified at a low-oversight tier.

Why it matters: Ensures the level of oversight is proportional to the level of risk — the agents that could do the most damage automatically get the most scrutiny.

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Continuous Compliance Reporting

What we find: Agents missing the audit evidence trail required for ongoing compliance reporting, or retaining that evidence for less time than required.

Why it matters: Turns compliance from a stressful annual scramble into an always-current, ready-to-show record — real evidence, not a snapshot assembled under deadline.

Multi-Cloud, Multi-Tenant

Built for Real Enterprise Complexity

A single client can run agents on Azure and GCP at once and see everything in one unified dashboard. A managed services provider running dozens of clients gets full data isolation between every one of them — verified at the database layer, not just the interface.

Every cloud account you connect resyncs automatically on an hourly cycle. Stale, deleted, or renamed agents are pruned automatically — no one has to remember to click "Sync."

See how it works →

AWS

Bedrock agents, tagged IAM identities

Azure

Cognitive Services, ML workspaces, Entra ID

GCP

Vertex AI, labeled service accounts

Full Isolation

Per-tenant, database-verified

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