For the Chief Information Security Officer

Each autonomous agent is a new, persistent, and highly capable potential attacker on your network. Corvair.ai provides preventative controls that operate at machine speed, allowing you to neutralize the threat of Cumulative Operational Authority and defend against a new class of AI-native attacks.

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Your Existing Stack Wasn't Built for This

Traditional security tools (IAM, PAM, ZTNA) are architecturally incapable of governing non-deterministic agents. They cannot see or control the primary threat vector: Cumulative Operational Authority.

Machine-Speed Threats

Agents can chain together tools and exploit vulnerabilities at a speed that renders traditional, human-in-the-loop security operations obsolete.

Cumulative Operational Authority

An agent's authority is an emergent property of its static permissions plus rights inherited from users and tools, creating an unmanageable attack surface that cannot be measured or controlled.

Ill-Equipped Controls

Your existing security controls are blind to this new risk. They cannot perform the per-action, mission-aware privilege evaluation required to govern AI.

Left of Boom vs. Right of Boom: Shifting from Reactive to Preventative Security

The traditional security mindset keeps organizations trapped in reactive "right of boom" responses. It's time to move left.

Understanding the "Boom"

The terms "left of boom" and "right of boom" originated in military and counterterrorism contexts, where the "boom" represents an explosive attack or security incident. This framework has become essential for understanding modern cybersecurity strategy:

Left of Boom

Preventative measures taken before an incident occurs. Focus on prevention, early detection, and stopping threats before they materialize.

Right of Boom

Reactive measures taken after an incident has occurred. Focus on incident response, damage containment, and recovery.

Why Traditional Security is Stuck "Right of Boom"

Reactive by Design

Most security tools are fundamentally reactive - they detect and respond to threats after they've already begun executing. SIEM, SOAR, and EDR all operate in "right of boom" mode.

Speed Mismatch

Human-speed security operations cannot keep pace with machine-speed AI threats. By the time an incident is detected and responded to, significant damage may already be done.

Visibility Gaps

Traditional tools can't see Cumulative Operational Authority or predict the dynamic risk of autonomous agents. They're blind to the primary threat vector.

High Cost of Incidents

Right of boom responses are expensive - incident response teams, downtime, regulatory fines, reputation damage. Prevention is always more cost-effective than cure.

The Zero Trust and ZSP Challenge

Security professionals universally acknowledge that Zero Trust Architecture and Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) represent security best practices. However, implementation remains challenging:

  • Legacy System Constraints: Existing applications weren't designed for dynamic privilege management
  • Operational Complexity: Traditional ZSP implementations can disrupt workflows and create friction
  • Scale Challenges: Managing fine-grained permissions across thousands of users and systems is unwieldy
  • AI Amplifies the Problem: Autonomous agents make these challenges exponentially worse

Adopting Best Practices Incrementally with Corvair

Rather than requiring a complete security transformation, Corvair enables you to implement Zero Trust and ZSP principles incrementally, starting with your AI agents.

Phase 1: AI-First ZSP

Start by implementing Zero Standing Privileges for AI agents only. This provides immediate security benefits while learning the operational patterns.

  • Deploy Corvair for new AI initiatives
  • Gain experience with JIT privilege workflows
  • Build confidence in automated controls
Phase 2: Expand Coverage

Gradually extend ZSP principles to critical human workflows and high-risk applications using lessons learned from AI governance.

  • Apply to admin and privileged accounts
  • Extend to critical business applications
  • Integrate with existing IAM systems
Phase 3: Full Zero Trust

Achieve comprehensive Zero Trust architecture across your entire organization, using AI governance as the foundation.

  • Organization-wide ZSP implementation
  • Complete "left of boom" security posture
  • Proactive threat prevention at scale
Why Moving "Left of Boom" is Critical
Prevention vs. Reaction

Stopping threats before they execute is always more effective and less costly than responding after damage is done.

Machine-Speed Defense

Automated preventative controls can operate at the same speed as AI threats, providing effective defense against machine-speed attacks.

Regulatory Compliance

Preventative controls demonstrate due diligence and can significantly reduce regulatory liability in the event of an incident.

Business Enablement

Rather than saying "no" to AI initiatives, you can say "yes, safely" with proper preventative governance in place.

The Corvair Solution: An AI-Native Defense Plane

Move from reactive incident response to proactive, preventative control over your entire AI fleet.

Enforce Zero Standing Privileges

The #1 vector for breaches is the misuse of static credentials. Our platform enforces a Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) model for agents by eliminating "Permission Waste" and issuing only ephemeral, task-scoped authorization.

  • JIT Privilege Broker: Our engine serves as a just-in-time privilege broker that decides, within milliseconds, whether to grant, modify, or deny a requested privilege.
  • Verifiable Cryptographic Identity: We replace weak, static secrets with strong, short-lived cryptographic identities (e.g., SPIFFE/SPIRE SVID) to achieve non-repudiation for every agent action.
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Prevent Unsafe Deployments

Our platform provides a "left-of-boom" defense by ensuring agents are safe by design. We provide preventative "poka-yoke" (mistake-proofing) controls that halt non-compliant deployments before they can become a threat.

  • CI/CD Governance Gate: Our engine intercepts deployment events, compares artifacts to the approved registry profile, and halts the pipeline if the change is out of policy.
  • Pre-Deployment Blast Radius Calculation: We calculate an agent's Maximum Potential Blast Radius before deployment, turning risk into a quantifiable metric you can gate on.
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Contain Threats at Machine Speed

When a threat is detected, containment speed is everything. Our platform enables an automated, graduated response to contain threats in seconds, not days, minimizing operational disruption.

  • Adaptive Privilege Adjustment: When risk exceeds a threshold, the PDP can downgrade a requested privilege (e.g., from write to read-only) or require human step-up approval.
  • Mass Revocation & System Lockdown: Instantly execute a mass revocation of privileges for any agent or crew, ensuring ultimate human control and containment in an emergency.
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See the CISO Dashboard in Action

Our platform provides a dedicated "SOC View" for your security team, with a live event stream, incident investigation workbenches, and the emergency controls for mass revocation and system lockdown. Schedule a demo to see how we arm you for the new era of security.

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