2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Kanopy Security · Shadow AI Governance Platform
Best Enterprise AI Governance Platform
Overview
Kanopy Security (formerly Nokod Security) is the leading application security platform dedicated to securing the growing jungle of shadow AI built by business users. While rapid citizen development on platforms like Microsoft Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Salesforce, and ServiceNow accelerates innovation, it also introduces critical vulnerabilities that bypass traditional security oversight.
Kanopy provides complete visibility, risk detection, and automated remediation to secure this often overlooked attack surface. By proactively detecting and remediating hidden threats while enforcing continuous, automated guardrails, Kanopy enables organizations to govern their digital transformation safely without slowing down productivity. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Kanopy turns hidden risks into secure, governed innovation.
Key Capabilities
Kanopy delivers end-to-end AI governance across the full lifecycle of business-built applications and agents. It is the only solution architecturally designed to operate inside the visual logic builders, agent orchestration environments, and AI automated workflow tools that traditional security products cannot access.
Kanopy gives security teams the infrastructure to define and enforce governance policies automatically across thousands of agents and automations, bringing business-built tools up to regulation requirements such as OWASP and MITRE When risks are identified, Kanopy delivers prescriptive, one-click remediation guidance directly to the application owner – not just the security team. This distributes governance responsibility at the pace and scale of citizen development, freeing security teams from manually reviewing thousands of tools they didn't build.
The foundation of the platform is automated discovery. Kanopy connects to enterprise platforms in minutes and immediately surfaces every agent, workflow, automation, and application running across the environment, including assets security teams never knew existed. Each discovered asset is mapped to its owner, data connections, privilege levels, and interaction history, creating a continuously updated governance inventory. Working with tens of enterprises, Kanopy has found that roughly 20% of the business builder-designed tools are vulnerable.
From there, Kanopy moves beyond static analysis into runtime behavioral governance through its Adaptive Agent Security capability. Unlike build-time controls, which are blind to how agents behave once deployed, Adaptive Agent Security continuously profiles each agent's behavior and tool usage to establish a dynamic baseline, detects deviations such as logic drift, unauthorized connector use, environment bridging, and privilege escalation in real time, and intercepts policy-violating actions before they execute. Guardrails evolve as agents learn and autonomously modify their own workflows, ensuring compliance is maintained not just at creation but throughout the agent's entire lifecycle.
Kanopy identifies the threats that legacy AppSec and DLP tools are architecturally incapable of detecting in these environments: prompt injection attacks embedded in agent workflows, agent chaining and cross-environment data propagation, over-permissioned workflows, hidden data flows that bypass audit trails, and insecure third-party connector integrations.
How we are different
Kanopy's differentiation is fundamental as the first company to define and build an entirely new security category: AI governance for the citizen developer layer of the enterprise.
Kanopy is built on the belief that security governance and business productivity should not be in conflict. Enterprises should never have to choose between letting their people build and keeping their environment safe. Business users keep building; security teams gain the visibility and control they need; and risks are resolved by the people closest to the tools, quickly and without bottlenecks. That philosophy is what makes Kanopy not just a security product, but a governance platform that enterprises can adopt at scale.
The starting point is the breakdown of "control". Traditional AppSec tools and DLP solutions were built for a world where developers write code that moves through structured pipelines and security checkpoints. That model breaks completely when the builder is a business user working inside a visual workflow tool that never touches a code repository. Kanopy is the only platform that connects directly inside these environments and understands the logic, data flows, and agent behaviors they contain.
Kanopy solves a governance problem that no existing tool was designed for: AI agents that continue to learn, chain with other agents, and autonomously modify their own workflows after deployment. Most governance approaches rely on build-time scanning, which captures a snapshot of an agent at creation and then goes blind. Kanopy's Adaptive Agent Security provides continuous behavioral profiling and real-time policy enforcement across the full agent lifecycle, governing agents not just as they are built, but as they evolve. This is not an incremental improvement on existing technology; it is a capability class that did not exist before Kanopy built it.
The scale of the problem also sets Kanopy apart. Kanopy's research shows enterprises average 50+ new AI agents being added daily, and the gap between estimated and actual asset counts is frequently 10x or greater. One insurance customer expected a few hundred assets and discovered more than 3,000. A global enterprise customer found itself governing tens of thousands of applications built by hundreds of thousands of users. No manual review process or point-in-time audit can address this reality, which is precisely why Kanopy's automated, continuous, and builder-centric governance model exists.
Underpinning all of this is a founding team that has done it before. Kanopy was built by the co-founders of Imperva and SecuredTouch, who bring the same category-defining instincts to this new problem.
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