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You can’t govern the AI you can’t see.

Discover shadow AI and autonomous agents, map what they can touch, and red-team them against the OWASP Agentic Top 10 and CSA MAESTRO — before one acts on an instruction you never gave.

Agentic AI & Shadow AI Security Assessment

Hire expert assessors to discover, map, and red-team every AI agent in your environment. Our certified team delivers a full risk report — from agent inventory to governance plan — in 2 – 4 weeks.

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    Agentic AI & Shadow AI Security Assessment | Agent Discovery & Red Teaming | VISTA InfoSec

    Every AI agent is an identity with access and no manager. We give it one.

    ~80%of IT pros have already seen an AI agent take an unauthorised actionDark Reading, 2026
    #1agentic AI named the top emerging attack vector by security prosDark Reading / Bessemer, 2026
    40%of enterprise apps to embed task-specific AI agents by end-2026Gartner
    1 in 3enterprises have any AI-specific security controlsDark Reading, 2026

    Why this is different

    An agent doesn’t answer — it acts

    Generative AI produced text for a human to review. Agentic AI sends the email, moves the money, edits the record and calls the API — autonomously, at machine speed, often across systems that were never meant to talk to each other. The risk isn’t a wrong answer. It’s an irreversible action.

    The exposureShadow agents nobody inventoried (Cursor, Copilot, custom GPT actions, AutoGPT)
    Our moveDiscovery & live inventory of every agent and AI tool in use
    The exposureOver-broad tool & credential permissions (the “confused deputy”)
    Our moveTool-permission mapping & least-privilege review
    The exposureGoal hijacking & prompt injection that triggers actions
    Our moveAgentic red teaming against OWASP Agentic Top 10
    The exposureMalicious tools, plugins & MCP servers in the supply chain
    Our moveMCP & tool-protocol security testing

    What we do

    See it. Scope what it can touch. Break it before someone else does.

    1

    Shadow-AI & agent discovery

    Find the unsanctioned tools and autonomous agents already running — browser extensions, IDE plugins, SaaS “AI automation” and custom builds.

    2

    Permission & identity mapping

    Map what each agent can read, write and execute, and the credentials it holds — the blast radius if it’s compromised.

    3

    Agentic red teaming

    Goal hijacking, tool misuse, memory poisoning, inter-agent and MCP-server attacks — mapped to OWASP Agentic Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS, modelled with CSA MAESTRO.

    4

    Governance & control recommendations

    A prioritised plan — least-privilege, human-in-the-loop on irreversible actions, monitoring — mapped to your ISO 42001 / EU AI Act obligations.

    OWASP Agentic Top 10 (ASI)CSA MAESTROMITRE ATLASMCP securityNIST AI RMF

    An agent can’t unsend an email, un-move money, or un-delete a record. So we test before it acts — not after.

    Why visibility comes first

    You cannot secure what you cannot see — and for most organisations, this assessment is the first complete picture of their agentic footprint. Because that footprint changes constantly as tools update and new agents appear, we also offer recurring testing rather than a single point-in-time snapshot.

    YOU WALK AWAY WITH
    • A live inventory of agents & shadow AI
    • A blast-radius map per agent
    • Red-team findings with reproducible PoCs
    • A prioritised governance & control plan
    • Mapping to ISO 42001 / EU AI Act

    Find every agent in your business — before one of them finds trouble.

    Fifteen minutes to scope a discovery and red-team engagement. You’ll finally see your full agentic footprint — and what it can reach.

    No sales pressure. Speak with a certified assessor, not a call centre. Calls across the US, UK & Singapore.

    Questions, answered

    Frequently asked questions

    What counts as “shadow AI”?

    Any AI tool or agent in use without IT’s sign-off — staff using personal ChatGPT accounts, coding assistants like Cursor or Copilot, browser extensions, and SaaS features with ‘AI automation’ switched on. It’s now the most common entry point for data leakage.

    Why can’t our existing tools see our agents?

    Standard DLP and IAM weren’t built for ephemeral agent identities, and most AI traffic is encrypted to the provider. Agents are often introduced at the code or integration layer, below where traditional monitoring looks. Discovery has to be deliberate.

    What’s the real danger with agentic AI?

    Action, not text. An agent can chain tools — read a database, draft an email, hit an API — and a single prompt injection can turn that into data exfiltration or an unauthorised transaction, at machine speed, before a human sees it.

    Do you just find problems, or help fix them?

    Both. You get red-team findings with proof-of-concept plus a prioritised governance plan — least-privilege, human-in-the-loop on irreversible actions, monitoring — mapped to ISO 42001 and EU AI Act controls.

    Is one assessment enough?

    It’s the essential first picture, but your agentic footprint changes weekly as tools update and new agents appear. We offer recurring/continuous testing so your coverage keeps pace.

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