The rapid adoption of autonomous agents has created a new and untenable class of institutional risks. The promise of hyper-productivity is directly counterbalanced by an expanded and poorly understood threat landscape, creating a significant strategic dilemma for executive leadership.
Waiting is not a strategy. The problems of ungoverned AI are happening now, and they compound over time, creating a new class of institutional risks for key enterprise stakeholders.
Each autonomous agent represents a new, persistent, and highly capable potential attacker on the network. The speed at which agents can chain together tools and exploit vulnerabilities means that traditional, human-in-the-loop security operations are rendered obsolete. The CISO is faced with the challenge of securing an unmanageable attack surface against threats that operate at machine speed.
The primary concern is the potential for catastrophic data spillage and loss of data provenance. An improperly governed agent with access to sensitive data can inadvertently leak personally identifiable information (PII) or proprietary intellectual property, violating data residency and privacy regulations. The CDO is tasked with enabling data access for innovation while simultaneously ensuring a verifiable, auditable chain of custody.
These individual technical and data risks aggregate into a significant institutional risk. A single misaligned agent could trigger financial losses, cause operational disruptions, or inflict lasting reputational damage. The CRO must balance the board's mandate to innovate and adopt AI with the fiduciary duty to manage the new, elevated, and often unquantified risks that this technology introduces.
Solving the problem of Cumulative Operational Authority requires a new, purpose-built architecture. Corvair provides a unified system that spans the entire agent lifecycle, from design-time safety to real-time enforcement.
The core of our solution is a centralized, authoritative system of record that unifies identity, capability, permission, context, and mission into a single, ten-layer, machine-verifiable profile for each non-deterministic agent. This provides the foundational data needed for programmatic oversight and verifiable audit.
We introduce a novel method for risk assessment by applying the industrial engineering concept of "Muda" (Waste). It quantifies an agent's potential "blast radius" by calculating metrics for its excess permissions (Permission Waste) and violations of its approved build and data lineage (Defect Waste), transforming abstract risk into a measurable, objective score.
A governance assessment engine integrated into the CI/CD pipeline acts as a preventative control, programmatically halting the deployment of non-compliant agents. A post-deployment reconciliation module acts as a detective control, comparing live operational telemetry against the Registry record to identify and alert on policy violations in real-time.
Our design-time governance is synergistically coupled with a real-time enforcement plane that operates as a per-action Policy Decision Point (PDP) and a just-in-time (JIT) privilege broker. Decisions are made by programmatically traversing a live, contextual risk graph that is instantiated and continuously enriched with the authoritative baseline profile from the Agent Registry.
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