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Nudge Security · AI Governance Platform
Best AI Governance Platform
Overview
Employees make thousands of technology decisions every day—what apps to adopt, what data to share, which AI tools to use. These decentralized decisions are happening at the Workforce Edge, and they're outpacing traditional security programs that weren't built for this reality.
Nudge Security delivers SaaS and AI security governance at the Workforce Edge. Our automated, policy-driven guardrails reach employees when and where they work, enabling rapid technology adoption while minimizing risk and sprawl. Through unrivaled discovery capabilities, AI-driven risk insights, and behavioral science-based engagement, we make security a natural part of how modern work gets done rather than an obstacle to innovation.
Key Capabilities
In just 18 months, AI tools deployed across enterprise environments surged from 75 to more than 1,000—with the average organization running 26 distinct AI apps. Governing that at scale requires a fundamentally different approach.
Nudge Security discovers the full SaaS and AI ecosystem on Day One of a free trial, going beyond pure-play AI tools to uncover the integrations, dependencies, and supply chain connections that put sensitive data at risk. This gives organizations the visibility and control they need to:
Detect sensitive data sharing: Monitor AI chatbot conversations for sensitive data shared via file upload or copy/paste.
Enforce AI policy: Deliver just-in-time policy guardrails to drive safe AI adoption and deter non-compliant behaviors.
Monitor AI usage trends: Drive adoption of sanctioned tools over shadow AI with usage data by department, user, and AI tool.
Detect risky integrations: Manage OAuth and API grants giving AI tools access to data, including MCP integrations.
Map the AI supply chain: Uncover LLM dependencies across your SaaS ecosystem and understand how your data is shared and used to train models.
Scale AI governance: Automate Acceptable Use Policy tracking, permission revocation, and account removals.
Because Nudge Security's discovery capability does not require product updates, its coverage expands naturally alongside the market—including MCP server integrations, AI agents, and AI-enabled features across SaaS apps.
With its commitment to innovation, Nudge Security recently released new AI agent discovery capabilities that give security teams the ability to find, assess, and govern AI agents as employees deploy them:
- Discover agents across agentic platforms. Continuously discover agents deployed across agentic platforms like Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, n8n, and others.
- Inventory agent permissions, resources, and capabilities. Know immediately what each agent can do, what it's connected to, and who created it.
- Surface agentic risks. Prioritized risk insights and security posture findings flag publicly accessible agents, hardcoded credentials, unauthenticated MCP connections, high-risk integrations, and orphaned agents.
- Enforce AI agent guardrails. Nudge agent creators to confirm purpose, justify use, and remediate risks—at the speed employees work.
How we are different
AI agent discovery is not a new product direction for Nudge Security—it's a natural evolution of what the company has been doing since day one: securing the Workforce Edge, where employees make thousands of daily decisions about how they adopt, use, and share data across modern AI and SaaS environments.
That distinction matters. Most security tools are built to govern technology. Nudge Security is built to govern the human decisions behind the technology—and that foundation is exactly what makes it uniquely positioned to solve the agentic AI problem at scale.
Unlike point solutions built specifically for AI agents, Nudge Security already has deep visibility into access patterns, integrations, identity signals, and behavioral context that reveal how employees are actually adopting new AI and SaaS tools across the enterprise. AI agent discovery extends this foundation directly into the agentic layer, with no new deployments required for existing customers already connected to environments like Salesforce and ServiceNow.
But visibility alone isn't governance. Where other solutions can tell you an agent exists, Nudge Security can tell you who created it, what it's connected to, what tools and resources it can access, and whether it puts your data at risk. More importantly, it closes the loop, automatically engaging the right stakeholders with targeted guardrails at the moment it matters most, driving remediation at the speed employees work—rather than the speed of IT backlogs.
This is what separates Nudge Security from every other player in this space: the combination of unrivaled discovery, AI-driven risk insights, and behavioral science-based engagement that turns security policy into a natural part of how modern work gets done, not a gate employees route around.
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