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Secure AI Usage Across Human and Agentic Workflows

AI tools and AI agents introduce different risks and require different controls. Cyberhaven covers both, from the employee pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT to the autonomous agent quietly reading files across your enterprise.

Why AI Security Is Increasingly Difficult

AI adoption has outpaced the security controls built to govern it. The risks today aren't limited to employees sharing files in a chat window.

Agents Operate Where Your
Tools Can't See 

Endpoint-based AI agents, local models, coding assistants, and MCP servers run directly on operating systems and developer environments. Browser-extension and network-layer security tools have no visibility there.

AI Workflows Move Data At Machine Speed

AI agents execute multi-step workflows autonomously, reading files, invoking tools, and moving data across systems before a single alert fires. A single misconfigured or compromised agent can exfiltrate data, hijack a workflow, or propagate across connected agents with no human in the loop.

Blocking Doesn't Work At AI Speed 

Block-first controls generate alert fatigue, push shadow AI further underground, and create operational drag for the engineering and business teams that depend on AI tools to do their jobs. Governance that can't keep pace with AI adoption isn't governance.

How Cyberhaven Secures AI Usage

Cyberhaven covers the full surface area of AI risk, including the tools employees use, the agents running on endpoints, the MCP servers connecting agents to enterprise data, and the data itself as it moves through all of them.

Discover AI apps, agents, and MCP servers

Cyberhaven continuously inventories AI tools as they appear across the organization, including SaaS generative AI, coding assistants in IDEs and CLIs, open-source agent frameworks, and MCP servers. Applications are automatically categorized, with no manual cataloging required.

Monitor what data agents actually touch

Cyberhaven tells you what AI tools are present, and what actions they take. The platform reconstructs the full execution lifecycle of every agent interaction: what data was accessed, what tools were invoked, what actions resulted, and how that activity connects across multi-turn conversations and multi-step workflows. 

Enforce controls without blocking productive work

Cyberhaven enforces runtime guardrails at the prompt and response level, based on the sensitivity of the data involved and the risk profile of the tool or agent accessing it. When a policy is triggered, employees see a plain-English explanation of what happened and why, with the option to revise or proceed. Punitive block pages are replaced with contextual coaching to reduce shadow AI adoption.

Investigate with lineage, not just alerts

Because the Cyberhaven platform is built on Data Lineage, every agent action is connected to the data it touched, where that data originated, and where it went next. Security teams can move from an alert to a complete picture of what happened in a single workflow, without manually correlating logs across disconnected systems.

Key Capabilities

The security you need to reduce AI risks

Help your employees embrace AI safely while managing risks and ensuring compliance.

01

Shadow AI Discovery

Continuously inventories AI agents running across endpoints, browsers, CLIs, and IDEs, including tools that cloud-only security solutions cannot see.

02

Agentic AI Observability

Reconstructs the full execution lifecycle of every agent interaction, capturing tool calls, data access, and multi-turn conversation context in a single view.

03

MCP Server Monitoring

Discovers and monitors Model Context Protocol servers and AI connectors across the enterprise, surfacing risk from integrations that operate outside traditional security controls.

04

AI Risk IQ Scoring

Assigns risk scores across five dimensions to every AI application and agent in your environment. Cyberhaven maintains scores quarterly, with no customer configuration required.

05

AI Data Flow Control

Enforces runtime guardrails at the prompt and response level, blocking high-risk data movement, redirecting users to sanctioned tools, and coaching employees with plain-English policy explanations.

06

Data Lineage for AI Interactions

Connects every agent action to the data it touched, showing where that data originated and where it went next, so alerts become investigations.

Those Building the Future Trust Cyberhaven

Frequently Asked Questions

What does it mean to secure AI usage across an enterprise?

Securing enterprise AI usage means governing how employees, developers, and autonomous agents access, process, and move sensitive data through AI tools and workflows. It includes discovering which AI tools are in use (including unsanctioned ones), monitoring data flows through both human-facing and agentic AI interactions, assessing the risk profile of each tool, and enforcing controls that protect data without blocking productive work.

How is securing human AI usage different from securing agentic AI?

Human AI usage involves an employee making a decision at each step: opening a tool, typing a prompt, reviewing a response. Agentic AI operates autonomously, executing multi-step workflows, invoking external tools, reading and moving files, all without human review at each step. This creates a larger blast radius and faster data movement, and requires monitoring at the workflow level, not just the prompt level.

Why can't existing security tools govern AI agents?

Most existing AI security tools operate at the browser or network layer. AI agents running in IDEs, CLIs, local model environments, and OS-level frameworks bypass those controls entirely. Governing agentic AI requires endpoint visibility, conversation-level monitoring, and the ability to trace data through multi-step workflows, capabilities that browser-extension and network-layer tools were not designed to provide.

How does data lineage improve AI security investigations?

Data lineage connects an AI agent's actions to the specific data it touched, showing where that data originated and where it went after the interaction. This transforms an alert into an investigation: security teams can determine the actual blast radius of a policy violation or incident without manually correlating logs across disconnected systems.