The machine
Operating System
Syscalls, processes, files — the layer EDR was built to watch.
01 Why Neo
EDR stops at the OS. The agents live above it.
Enterprises spent $70B on endpoint, network, and identity. None of it covers the layer where the agentic workforce actually operates.
The layer EDR misses
A new layer, invisible to the controls you own.
EDR guards the OS-to-app boundary — the line where system calls cross. An agent reading credentials or moving data through a sanctioned API never trips that wire. It looks like the application doing its job.
Coverage stops here
EDR
Watches the OS↔app boundary. Blind to what runs inside the application.
Neo · sees inside
The Application
- AI Agents
- MCP · Plugins
- Skills · Extensions
Neo · attributes
The Actors
Human or AI — every action tied back, in real time.
- EDR One interface.
- The OS-to-app boundary, where system calls cross. By design.
- Neo Everything inside the application,
- plus the actors driving it. Where agents, plugins, and extensions now live.
02 What we believe
Four convictions behind the platform.
01
Every app is becoming an agent
Agents, skills, plugins, MCP servers, extensions, and CLIs are now first-class software running on every endpoint. The surface grew; the controls did not.
02
Discovery is not control
Knowing what is running is table stakes. Shadow-AI tools produce lists. Security needs to act — block, allow, or hold — at the point of action.
03
Attribution is the foundation
The only question that matters in an incident is who acted. Real-time human-vs-agent attribution turns logs into accountability.
04
Fight agents with agents
A signature catalog cannot keep pace with a surface that changes daily. An AI-native platform learns the threat as fast as it appears.
03 What CISOs tell us
The controls were built for a different layer.
We have no inventory of the AI agents, plugins, and MCP servers our engineers have installed. Our app control stops at signed binaries.
Our EDR was built for the OS layer. It cannot see an AI agent reading credentials or exfiltrating data through a sanctioned API.
When something breaks, we cannot answer the only question that matters. Was that action a human, or an agent operating on a human's session?
Auditors and the board want to know how we govern AI use. Shadow-AI tools show us what is running. They cannot stop a thing.
04 Why now
The agent surface is already here — and mostly ungoverned.
- 40%
- of enterprise apps will embed AI agents by year end
- 3 in 4
- boards approved major AI investments — most have not put AI risk on the agenda
- 79%
- of enterprises have agent blind spots today
- 1 in 8
- AI breaches already involve agentic systems
Gartner
Grant Thornton 2026
Akto Research
HiddenLayer 2026
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