Defend AI Runtime Security & Guardrails

Detect and block prompt injection, data exfiltration, and agent manipulation in coding agents, productivity agents, and custom-built AI agents.

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Defend AI delivers runtime security for AI agents across coding copilots like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot, productivity agents like MS Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise, and custom-built agents on AWS Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry. Powered by a high-efficacy AI engine, not legacy rule-based approaches, it inspects every prompt, reasoning step, and tool call to stop prompt injection, data exfiltration, and agent manipulation in real time.

Runtime Security and Protection for AI Agents

AI agents are dynamic, multi-step, and unpredictable, making accurate threat detection uniquely hard. Defend AI is the industry's first runtime security engine trained on millions of real-world agent traces, delivering 6-21x lower false positive rates than frontier model judges with 98.1% detection accuracy at <300ms latency.

Runtime Security for AI Agents

Stop direct and indirect prompt injection, data exfiltration, and agent manipulation across coding agents, productivity agents, custom-built agents, and multi-agent workflows.

Multimodal Threat Detection

Detect threats hidden in text, code, images, audio, and file uploads that single-mode tools miss. Multi-language support included.

MCP & Tool Security

Identify malicious or vulnerable MCP servers and tool connections in real time, backed by Straiker's MCP Threat Database that is purpose-built to cover local and remote MCP risks where misclassifications have real consequences

AI Agent Observability & Forensics

Trace every interaction across the user, model, tool chain, and agent-to-agent calls for root-cause analysis. for root-cause analysis, anomaly detection, and audit readiness.

Application grounding & Output Safety

Detect and suppress application drift, toxic output, and policy violations before they reach users or downstream systems.

What to expect with defend AI

Built-in guardrails

Out-of-the-box, privacy-preserving guardrails you can customize to match policy and use-case needs.

Agentic AI chain of threats 

Visualizes every user ↔ model ↔ tool step, enabling rapid incident triage and live threat blocking.

Frictionless deployment

Deploy in minutes with a single hook-based integration. One-line install via API, SDK, webhook, or AI sensor with no thick clients, proxies, firewalls, or infrastructure changes required.

Multimodal support 

Consistent protection across any files, PDFs, text, image, audio, and visual inputs for unified policy coverage.

Real-time detection and blocking

Compact, optimized inference engine delivers subsecond decisions that scale automatically.

Monitoring and compliance

Dashboards, audit logs, and instant alerts over Slack, email, or webhook keep teams informed and audit-ready.

Adaptive threat management

Self-learning models tune themselves to your app’s behavior, reducing false positives and improving accuracy over time.

chain of threat forensics

a closed-loop system
for AI security.

faq

How does Defend AI protect coding agents like Cursor and GitHub Copilot?

Defend AI provides runtime security for coding agents including Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code. It detects and blocks destructive actions like file deletion and config changes, prevents data exfiltration of proprietary code and secrets, and identifies malicious MCP server and Skills connections in development environments.

How does Defend AI secure productivity agents like MS Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce?

Defend AI detects data exfiltration across SaaS applications, blocks prompt injection delivered through enterprise content like emails and documents, and surfaces unapproved agent usage. Agentic traces give security teams full visibility into how productivity agents interact with enterprise data.

What is runtime security for custom-built AI agents?

Runtime security for custom-built AI agents protects agents built on AWS Bedrock, Azure Foundry, and MCP from threats that emerge during multi-step tool call chains. Defend AI detects jailbreaks, prompt injection, and malicious MCP server configurations, and supports compliance with NIST AI RMF, OWASP, and EU AI Act.

How does Defend AI detect data exfiltration from AI agents?

Defend AI uses semantic detection to identify data exfiltration attempts across all agent types. It monitors for extraction of PII, PCI, HIPAA-regulated data, proprietary source code, and secrets across text, code, images, and file uploads, catching exfiltration vectors that traditional DLP tools miss.

What is MCP security and why does it matter?

MCP servers extend AI agent capabilities through tools and data access, but they also expand the attack surface. Defend AI identifies malicious, poisoned, or vulnerable MCP servers in real time, backed by Straiker's MCP Threat Database. As MCP adoption grows, securing these connections is critical to preventing supply chain attacks and unauthorized data access.

Secure every AI Agent

You’re building at the edge of AI. Forward-thinking teams use Straiker to secure AI agents, detect emerging attack paths, and safely scale agentic AI across their organization. With Straiker, you have the confidence to deploy fast and scale safely.

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