Operant AI launches Semantic Firewall to secure AI agents

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San Francisco-headquartered Operant AI has announced the launch of Operant Semantic Firewall, an AI security layer designed to understand an AI agent’s intent in real time and enforce enterprise policies inline. The solution can stop malicious actions, jailbreaks and potential data breaches before they are executed.

As enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents across workflows handling sensitive data, agents are gaining the ability to run code, modify records, access enterprise data, call external tools and interact with other models and services. This increased autonomy is creating a need for security controls that can assess not only what an agent is doing but also whether its actions remain within the purpose and permissions assigned to it.

Operant Semantic Firewall evaluates the meaning and intent behind an agent’s activity across prompts, model responses, commands, tool calls and data movement. It can then make an inline allow, block or redact decision as the agent...

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