A completely new approach to governing agentic AI

Provable trust for every AI agent in your enterprise

TrustwAIre is the first business-intent-driven governance platform for agentic AI. Whether governing greenfield agents from process design or reining in Shadow AI agents already running without oversight, cryptographically enforce what they can do — and prove it. Every time…for every credential…for every workflow.

Enforcement updates dynamically as each agent's business profile evolves.

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Credential Request

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No Response

Profile & Scope✓Valid

OPA Policy→HIL Required

HIL Attestation⏱Timed out · 5 min

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Pre-approved · No CISO action needed

Auto-Approved

Action TypeWRITE

Workflow-bound✓ Yes

workflow-bound or TTL · SHA-256 attested

Why TrustwAIre

Six prerequisites for provable trust

TrustwAIre enters at agent design time (before a line of code runs) and enforces continuously from there. Today’s tools detect after the fact. TrustwAIre defines governance first, then proves it. Compliance reporting and evidence is a byproduct, not an afterthought.

Compliance framework coverage: NIST 800-53 Rev 5: 40 controls active today. HIPAA, PCI DSS v4, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, SOC 2 Type II — targeted for design partner co-development, H2 2026. The compliance auto-classification engine is framework-agnostic; additional frameworks activate without architectural changes.

Business Intent-Driven Governance

Proactive, not reactive. Business owners define agent purpose; CISOs enforce it. Governance flows from intent, not from after-the-fact log inspection.

Transparent Visibility & Decisioning

Connecting business owner to CISO to SOC in real time. Every approval, override, and exception is visible across the chain. No silos, no surprises.

Cryptographic Enforcement

Every agent credential is cryptographically bound to a specific person, device, location, time window, and workflow. It cannot be reused, shared, or forged. When the operation completes, the credential ceases to exist.

One-Time Use Credentials

TTL and workflow-bound expiration. The credential dies, the access dies. No persistent tokens to steal, blast radius contained to a single operation and time window.

Real-Time Chain of Custody

When something goes wrong, you can trace it to the exact moment, the exact actor, and the exact authorization state — in seconds. Compliance evidence is a byproduct of normal operations, not a forensic reconstruction.

Immutable Auditability

The audit record cannot be altered by anyone, including TrustwAIre. Any tampering is mathematically detectable. What regulators see is exactly what happened.

Human-in-the-Loop Attestation

Attestation Ecosystem

Open Standards. Configurable Policy. Multi-Provider Ecosystem.

TrustwAIre defines the attestation standard for agentic AI credential issuance. The platform supports a progressive adoption model: start simple, scale as your security posture requires. The Credential Router enforces the same governance at every tier. The attestation method determines how the human approves, not whether they approve.

Crawl, Walk, Run

Start with built-in browser-based approval for evaluation and early pilots: zero cost, zero configuration, fully self-hosted. Move to SMS-based attestation via Twilio for production pilots where mobile notification delivery matters. Scale to enterprise-grade multi-factor attestation with biometric verification, device binding, geolocation, and hardware security keys when your security posture requires it. Every tier produces the same tamper-evident audit evidence, the same chain of custody, the same compliance-as-byproduct.

Transaction Attestation, Not Session Authentication

Session-based MFA verifies a human once and assumes identity persists. Agentic AI operates at machine speed across thousands of credential events. Each event requires its own attestation, cryptographically bound to the specific credential, workflow, and time window. TrustwAIre enforces this at the architectural level, regardless of which attestation provider delivers the verification.

Active Consent by Design

No credential is issued without affirmative human response. The attestation window, number of attempts, and escalation path are configurable by the CISO. If the designated approver does not respond, the credential request is denied. For critical operations, multi-approver workflows require independent attestation from more than one stakeholder. No credential can be issued through inaction, negligence, or a single point of compromise.

Provider-Agnostic, CISO-Controlled

The CISO defines which risk classes require human attestation, which factors are required at each level, and which providers deliver the attestation. Different agents can use different providers. Different risk levels can invoke different factor combinations. Providers compete on capability, speed, and cost. The enterprise retains full control. TrustwAIre's margin is in the governance decision, not the attestation delivery. The attestation layer is a commodity service within the platform.

Runtime Control

Runtime control, not just runtime observability

The AI Kill Switch terminates agents that deviate from their governance profile — with cryptographic proof of every enforcement action. Falco-based kernel-level behavioral monitoring, with production-ready integration patterns for CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz AI-SPM, and other behavioral sensors, continuously validates agent actions against the live governance profile. ServiceNow control plane discovery and CMDB integration feeds agent inventory directly into the governance pipeline. The moment deviation is detected, the credential is revoked and the agent is quarantined.

Early AI detection vendors observe what an agent is doing, but have no idea whether those actions are authorized or not. Shutting down an agent without that context could terminate a legitimate, business-critical operation. Detection without authorization context is just noise. TrustwAIre turns that noise into a deterministic enforcement decision.

◆ President Trump publicly called for a government-mandated AI Kill Switch · April 15, 2026 · Reuters →

🛡 Kill Switch

Claims-Triage-AI-Agent · Healthcare · HIGH · 5 entitlements

● DEVIATION DETECTED

Compliant Behavior

Falco confirms scope matches governance profile.

🔑 Credential active — sanctioned scope loaded

✅ In-scope action: ALL on Epic EHR - Demographics Only

🛡 Falco: action matches OPA-compiled profile

✅ Compliance event logged → Activity Monitor

✅ Outcome: operation continued · credential intact

Drift / Violation

Agent tries to operate outside sanctioned profile.

🔑 Credential active — same sanctioned scope

⚠️ Out-of-scope: WRITE on Patient Records (EHR)

🛡 Falco: DEVIATION DETECTED — entitlement_scope

⚡ Kill Switch fires: Kill + Quarantine (federal-grade)

🔴 Credential revoked · profile quarantined · SOC alerted

Runtime Audit Chain — SHA-256 · Tamper-Evident

14:22:07 · Credential Issued

X.509 · workflow-bound · scope: read:demographics · TTL: 5 min

14:22:31 · Out-of-Scope Attempt Detected

WRITE on Patient Records (EHR) · outside entitlement_scope · Falco kernel event

14:22:31 · Kill Switch Activated · Profile Quarantined

Credential revoked · SOC webhook dispatched · SIEM notified · federal-grade quarantine

14:22:32 · Audit Record Written

SHA-256 hashed · Hyperledger-ready · regulator-ready · elapsed: 1 second

The Architectural Shift

Secrets are becoming yesterday’s technology

Secrets management was built for credentials that persist. Agentic AI credentials shouldn’t. An agent may request thousands of credentials per day through a service mesh, one per week for a regulatory cycle, or spin up and disappear in minutes. Compounding that velocity, an agent’s governance profile (the business context, entitlements, and risk classification defining what it’s authorized to do) changes frequently as business conditions evolve. Traditional IAM and secrets management cannot keep pace with that combination. They become the bottleneck, not the safeguard.

For resources in a service mesh, PKI replaces secrets entirely: the X.509 certificate authenticates the agent through mTLS with no secret on the wire. For legacy resources, TrustwAIre issues ephemeral credentials through your existing secrets infrastructure. No persistent credentials remain.

“The question is not how to manage agent secrets — it’s why an agent should have a persistent secret.”

The TrustwAIre approach: The Credential Router™ coordinates OPA policy enforcement, SPIRE/SPIFFE X.509 certificate issuance, and human-in-the-loop attestation in a single runtime transaction.

No token to rotate No central callback No persistent access to secure Cryptographically self-verifying Expires on TTL or workflow completion One architecture · every agent type · any scale

Explore further in Position Papers

For Every Stakeholder

Built for every side of the agentic AI conversation

Business owners need self-service speed, yet must be accountable for their agent’s behavior. CISOs need cryptographic certainty while providing a frictionless experience. Development teams need to ship governed agents without filing tickets for every permission change.

TrustwAIre is the first platform purpose-built to eliminate that compromise.

For Business Owners

Self-serve agent governance with full resource and permission visibility

Define your agent’s purpose, attach business intent, select resources from the catalog, and the platform auto-classifies data sensitivity and permissions. The CISO sees the same profile in real time. No waiting on security tickets, no committee approvals for routine work.

For CISO & Compliance

Verifiable chain of custody for every credential, every decision — tailored to Compliance needs

Cryptographically signed events. Hyperledger-ready integrity. Filter by credential lifecycle, runtime violations, profile changes, and CISO actions. Export the audit artifact in one click. GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, ready.

CISO-configured risk thresholds determine when human attestation is required: routine operations auto-approve, high-risk actions require business owner confirmation. The CISO sets the boundaries; the platform enforces them at every credential request.

Chain of Custody — CISO audit view with cryptographically signed credential events and compliance export

For Developers

Declare it once. The platform handles the rest.

One SDK call registers the agent’s governance profile: orchestrator type, LLM deployment mode, tool access and autonomy capabilities. Standards compliance deviations (External API without Output Validation, Self-Modification Enabled) are caught before production, not after.

Sub-agents inherit the parent’s capability ceiling automatically. The escalation policy, “Deny and Alert CISO,” enforces itself at every credential request. Fewer tickets back to security. More time building.

Agent Capabilities — developer view with orchestrator config, tool access capabilities, agent autonomy settings, and data access scope

Instructional Videos

See how TrustwAIre works

An ongoing video series covering the end-to-end product flow, from business owner onboarding through CISO governance to runtime credential issuance and audit. The first three videos move from an overview, to shadow AI containment, to driving governance all the way left to business process design.

The TrustwAIre Platform — A Founder Walkthrough

The full picture in twenty minutes. Why we built TrustwAIre, what makes business intent-driven governance different, and a live tour of the architecture in action.

Rogue Agents at Dawn: Provable Trust by Noon

Part two of the founder series. What it looks like when autonomous agents go rogue, and how TrustwAIre turns that risk into provable, runtime trust.

Business Deploying Agentic AI Must Own its Trust and Governance

When you redesign a business process with AI agents, governance must be built in at design time, not bolted on after deployment. Video 3 shows how the business owner defines what each agent can do, the Trust Custodian validates it, and the result is a transformed process that’s governed from day one.

Recent Industry Validation — The Trust Model Is Changing

EU AI Act Omnibus May 2026 update · high-risk deadline extended to Dec 2027 · penalty ceiling raised to 7% global turnover

OWASP Dec 2025 · Top 10 for Agentic Applications formalizes agent-specific threat classes: goal hijacking, privilege abuse, rogue behavioral drift

Anthropic → Project Glasswing April 2026 · Claude Mythos Preview deployed with AWS, Microsoft, Google, Apple & 50+ orgs to autonomously identify & remediate critical software vulnerabilities

Cisco → Astrix May 5 · ~$400M acquisition · non-human identity enters enterprise mainstream

White House April 15, 2026 · President backs government-mandated AI safeguards · Reuters ↗

The Architecture

Five layers, one source of reality

The Credential Router is TrustwAIre’s proprietary core, the only component in the market purpose-built to coordinate a live, bidirectional governance loop across five stakeholder layers. Policy in, evidence out, at runtime — no exceptions.

TrustwAIre architecture: a five-layer governance loop (L1A, L1B, L2 through L5) circling the central Source of Reality, with the Credential Router, Human Attestation, and SPIFFE/SPIRE components

Cryptographic Verification Cryptographic Proof Auditable Compliance Breach Detection Data On-Prem Workflow-Bound Credentials Standards-Based Tool Access (MCP)

Built on CNCF Open Standards

OPA · Open Policy Agent SPIFFE · SPIRE Envoy ext_authz Falco Runtime Security

Platform Depth — 15 Integrated Capability Domains

Custom governance logic, open-source foundations, and a REST API integration layer that binds them into a single governed pipeline.
This is the architectural depth that piece-player entrants cannot replicate in the near term.

Welcome Overview Current Process (AS-IS) AI-Enabled Process (TO-BE) BPMN-based Process Modeler Governed Process Create / Edit Governance Profile Discovery Import Sync Governance Profile Production Credential Issuance AI Kill Switch Stakeholder Dashboards Activity Monitor Audit & Compliance Compliance Frameworks

On the Roadmap

Agents trained on annotated enterprise governance data: credential events, policy decisions, deviation patterns. Not general-purpose LLMs. Design partners contribute to the training corpus and get purpose-built operational intelligence in return.

Resource Guidance | Issuance Monitoring | Profile Change Analysis | Conformance Validation | Hyperledger Hash Verification

Early Adopter Program

Two ways to get started

Option 1

Complimentary Evaluation

Briefly Paused

We're incorporating enhancement requests from our first cohort of evaluators and updating the platform to reflect them. The evaluation program will reopen here once those updates ship.

Stay tuned. Want to be first in line when it reopens? Email us and we'll add you to the list.

Option 2

Design Partner Program

Pilot-grade software is available today. Customers and consulting partners shape the roadmap through structured engagement, with direct access to the founding team and design-partner pricing.

Apply for Design Partnership →

Structured Evaluation Framework

Governance

Trust ownership, stakeholder convergence, threshold delegation

Identity

Profile as credential, ephemeral PKI, sub-agent scope inheritance

Attestation

Configurable HIL at agent speed, fail-closed enforcement

Enforcement

Runtime kill switch, behavioral correlation, quarantine with evidence

Compliance

Tamper-evident audit, NIST 800-53 mapping, compliance as byproduct

Design partners and consulting partners receive a structured evaluation checklist covering all five domains, with scored capability assessment, required demonstrations, and integration readiness.

Competitive Positioning

How vendors align with provable agentic AI governance

An emerging standard against which the bar is set. Twenty-two initial prerequisites. First comparison: TrustwAIre and SailPoint, following its announced acquisition of Entro.

A reported $200M to manage agent credentials, and still no answer for who approved the agent that holds them.SailPoint announced intent to acquire Entro, June 15, 2026. Terms undisclosed.

Capability	SailPoint + Entro	TrustwAIre
Discovery & Inventory
Agent / NHI discovery	●●●	●●○
MCP server discovery	—	●●●
Shadow AI detection	●●○	●●○
Credential type coverage	●●●	●●○
Governance & Business Intent
Business owner at design time	—	●●●
Process design integration (BPM)	—	●●●
Multi-stakeholder convergence	—	●●●
CISO hardening workflow	●○○	●●●
Threshold-delegated authority	—	●●●
Human ownership attribution	●●●after discovery	●●●at design time
Credential & Enforcement
PKI / X.509 credential issuance	—	●●●
Ephemeral one-time-use credentials	●○○	●●●
Distributed mesh enforcement	—	●●●
Runtime behavioral enforcement	●●○NHIDR	●●●Kill Switch
Kernel-level monitoring	—	●●○
Governance baseline comparison	—	●●●
Compliance & Operations
Compliance-as-byproduct	—	●●●
Tamper-evident audit (SHA-256)	●○○	●●●
Multi-persona dashboards	●●○	●●●
NIST 800-53 mapping (40 controls)	—	●●●
Deployment
On-premise / customer cloud	—cloud SaaS	●●●
Vendor-neutral (CNCF standards)	●○○	●●●

●●● Core strength●●○ Partial / planned●○○ Weak / bolt-on— Not present

SailPoint + Entro

Discover agents after deployment, attribute ownership through lineage mapping, manage credentials through lifecycle governance, detect anomalies against behavioral patterns.

TrustwAIre

Author the governance profile at business intent, converge six stakeholders before the first credential, issue an ephemeral PKI credential gated by the profile, enforce at runtime against the governance baseline, generate compliance evidence as a byproduct.

SailPoint manages the credentials.
Nobody managed the business decision that created them.
Until now.

3 / 22SailPoint + Entro at core strength. 10 of 22 with any presence.

18 / 22TrustwAIre at core strength.

12 / 22Capabilities with no SailPoint + Entro presence at all.

More legacy and emerging vendors will be added to this comparison over time.

About the Founder

Casey M. Plunkett

Co-Founder & CEO, Secure AI LLC

At IBM, Casey served as Chief of Staff to the General Manager of Tivoli, then as Director of Global Sales for IBM Security, leading 1,300 specialists serving 15,000 customers across 160 countries. In that role, he integrated three segments into the company’s first unified IAM suite and launched the Federated Identity Management product, growing it from zero to fifty million dollars in revenue in under a year. He also led due diligence and integration for six IBM acquisitions, and his early work on model-driven identity at IBM Research earned a U.S. patent. At Oracle, as Senior Practice Director of North America Security Consulting, he created the IAM and Database Security Practice and led the Oracle Tech Surge that stabilized Healthcare.gov in 2013.

One thread runs through all of it: building trust as identity itself kept changing. From federated identity to Zero Trust to the governance of non-human identity, Casey evolved his methodology with each shift, and TrustwAIre is where two decades of that work has led. He is the author of The Agentic AI Steamroller and position papers on the six building blocks of agentic AI trust, and has led more than six hundred global engagements in digital identity, privacy, and cybersecurity.

Why We Built TrustwAIre

In October 2024, during Fall Planning at CrossGeneration Security, we launched a strategic assessment of Agentic AI. Research convinced us our business would be obsolete within five years without radical changes. Yet there was no holistic practitioner’s guidebook — no insights on process, security, or organizational considerations. A nine-month research sabbatical filled that void with The Agentic AI Steamroller.

That research also revealed a gap nobody had filled: the governance layer every enterprise deploying agentic AI would need didn’t exist. We built TrustwAIre to close it.

“The Agentic AI Steamroller is already moving through your industry. As a senior leader, you have a choice: navigate it with clear guardrails, or get flattened by it.”

The Agentic AI Steamroller is an irresistible force. “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” The window for a considered response narrows daily.

The Scale Problem

Provable trust for every AI agent in your enterprise

Six prerequisites for provable trust

Business Intent-Driven Governance

Transparent Visibility & Decisioning

Cryptographic Enforcement

One-Time Use Credentials

Real-Time Chain of Custody

Immutable Auditability

Runtime control, not just runtime observability

Secrets are becoming yesterday’s technology

Built for every side of the agentic AI conversation

Self-serve agent governance with full resource and permission visibility

Verifiable chain of custody for every credential, every decision — tailored to Compliance needs

Declare it once. The platform handles the rest.

See how TrustwAIre works

The TrustwAIre Platform — A Founder Walkthrough

Rogue Agents at Dawn: Provable Trust by Noon

Business Deploying Agentic AI Must Own its Trust and Governance

Credential Issuance & Runtime

Audit, Compliance & SOC Integration

Five layers, one source of reality

Two ways to get started

Complimentary Evaluation

Complimentary Evaluation

Design Partner Program

Get a complimentary copy of The Agentic AI Steamroller

The Agentic AI Steamroller

Read the thinking behind TrustwAIre

The Trust Crisis in Agentic AI

Part One: The Six Building Blocks of Agentic AI Trust

The Convergence Architecture – Part 2

How vendors align with provable agentic AI governance

SailPoint + Entro

TrustwAIre

“The Agentic AI Steamroller is already moving through your industry. As a senior leader, you have a choice: navigate it with clear guardrails, or get flattened by it.”