Nvidia Adds Hardware Monitoring to AI Agent Safety Platform
Nvidia illustrates its layered approach to AI agent safety: OpenShell sets access boundaries, while Sentry adds monitoring from separate hardware. Image: Nvidia.
Nvidia adds a Sentry hardware monitoring design to its AI agent safety platform. See what OpenShell offers now and what IT teams still need to verify.
Sep 28, 2026
An AI agent can follow its assigned task and still reach a system it was never meant to access. Nvidia wants security controls that can stop the agent even when the agent’s own software does not.
On September 28, Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, combining its OpenShell software with a reference design for monitoring agents on separate hardware. For IT teams, the practical question is whether those controls can restrict an agent’s access to files, services, and credentials while leaving it enough room to do its job.
OpenShell is broadly available, according to Nvidia. The hardware monitoring...
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