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CISO Onboarding Guide

Understand ShieldAgent in 5 minutes — no technical background needed.

What is ShieldAgent?

ShieldAgent is an AI security firewall that sits between your AI agents and the tools they use, automatically blocking dangerous or policy-violating actions before they reach your systems.

Think of it as a smart security guard for your AI workforce — every action an AI agent tries to take is checked, logged, and enforced against your security policies in real time.

How it protects your AI agents

Every AI action passes through a multi-stage security pipeline before it can reach your data or systems.

AI Agent

ShieldAgent

Your Systems

Authentication — Verifies the agent's identity and API key.

Risk Scoring — Assigns a risk level (low → critical) to the request.

Rate Limiting — Prevents runaway agents from flooding your systems.

Tool Access Control — Checks whether this agent is allowed to use this tool.

Policy Enforcement — Applies your custom security policies.

Injection Detection — Catches prompt injection and data exfiltration attempts.

Anomaly Detection — Flags unusual behavior that deviates from the agent's baseline.

Audit Logging — Records every action with full context for compliance evidence.

Blocked requests never reach your upstream systems. Allowed requests are forwarded and logged.

What the dashboard shows

Your security team gets a single pane of glass to monitor all AI agent activity.

Risk Overview

Live risk score per agent, trending over time. Spot dangerous agents at a glance.

Security Events

Every blocked request, injection attempt, and policy violation — with full context.

Audit Trail

Immutable, exportable log of all agent actions. Ready for compliance reviews.

Policy Editor

Write and deploy security policies without touching agent code.

ShieldAgent Dashboard

Risk Score

↓ 3 from yesterday

Blocked (24h)

2 injection attempts

Active Agents

3 high-risk tier

Recent Security Events

BLOCKEDPrompt injection detected — coding-agent → filesystem

FLAGGEDExcessive agency: 48 tool calls in 2 min — ops-agent

ALLOWEDPolicy passed — data-agent → web-search

Illustrative dashboard — data shown is representative

How to get started

Three steps from zero to protected.

Connect ShieldAgent

Your team routes AI agent traffic through the ShieldAgent proxy. No changes to your AI agents are required — it works transparently.

Configure your policies

Use the dashboard to set which tools each agent can access, what data they can read, and what triggers an alert or automatic block.

Monitor and audit

The dashboard shows live activity, risk scores, and security events. Export audit logs for compliance reviews at any time.

Compliance frameworks supported

ShieldAgent auto-generates evidence for the AI-specific controls in these frameworks. No manual documentation required.

SOC 2 Type II

CC6.1 — Logical access controlsCC7.2 — Anomaly detectionCC9.2 — Vendor risk

ISO 27001

A.9 — Access controlA.12.4 — Logging & monitoringA.14.2 — Secure development

NIST AI RMF

GOVERN 1.2 — AI risk policyMAP 2.3 — Risk measurementMANAGE 2.4 — Incident response

EU AI Act

Art. 9 — Risk management systemArt. 12 — Record-keepingArt. 17 — Quality management

GDPR

Art. 32 — Security measuresArt. 30 — Records of processingArt. 25 — Privacy by design

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