Alterion Draco
by Alterion
Runtime control plane for enterprise AI agents — see, govern, and stop agent actions in real time
Alterion Draco is an agentless runtime control plane that gives enterprise security, risk, and compliance leaders real-time visibility and enforced governance over AI agents running across clouds, vendors, and endpoints. Launched July 16, 2026, it is aimed at CISOs, CIOs, and platform teams who have agents in production but no way to see or stop what those agents are doing.
Draco is Alterion's runtime control plane for enterprise AI agents, made available to enterprise customers on July 16, 2026. Powered by Helix, Alterion's runtime intelligence layer, Draco observes every prompt, tool call, action, and payload in real time, models agent behavior and intent, and applies programmable guardrails that enforce policy before an agent performs a high-risk action such as deleting data or changing production. The platform is organized around three functions: EXPLORE discovers and inventories all agents — including shadow, SaaS, endpoint, and custom agents — and tracks every prompt, tool call, and token spend; PROTECT provides low-latency built-in controls for agent threats and rogue behavior with guardrails covering the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications; and COMPLY monitors posture against SOC 2, ISO 42001, and the NIST AI RMF and generates audit-ready evidence packages on demand. Alterion positions Draco against design-time governance tooling and traditional APM and security stacks, which capture logs and metrics but not agent intent — as co-founder Alharith Hussin puts it, "Most governance tools work at design time... Draco sits in the runtime, sees every action in context, and enforces controls." It requires no agent code changes or SDK integrations, is vendor- and infrastructure-agnostic across AI gateways, LLM vendors, and frameworks, uses multi-layer detection spanning runtime behavior, network traffic, workload metadata, and endpoint activity, and integrates with existing SIEM, SOAR, SOC, and GRC systems. Alterion was founded by Alharith Hussin, a former McKinsey Partner, and Asim Husain, a former Google Engineering VP, and is headquartered in San Francisco.
At a Glance
- Category
- Governance & Security
- Pricing
- Contact for pricing
- Target Market
- CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Enterprise Security Teams, Risk and Compliance Leaders
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, United States
Key Features
- ✓EXPLORE — agent discovery and inventory
Discovers and inventories every agent (shadow, SaaS, endpoint, custom) without code changes and tracks every prompt, tool call, and token spend while profiling runtime behavior automatically.
- ✓PROTECT — runtime threat controls
Delivers real-time threat detection with low-latency built-in controls for agent threats and rogue behavior, including guardrails covering the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications.
- ✓COMPLY — continuous compliance evidence
Monitors compliance posture against SOC 2, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF and generates audit-ready evidence packages on demand.
- ✓Helix runtime intelligence layer
Models agent behavior and intent from observed prompts, actions, and payloads rather than relying on logs and metrics alone.
- ✓Programmable runtime guardrails
Enforces policy before an agent performs a high-risk action such as deleting data or making production changes.
- ✓Agentless, vendor-agnostic deployment
Requires no agent code changes or SDK integrations and works across AI gateways, LLM vendors, frameworks, and infrastructure, including agents added later.
Use Cases
- •Shadow agent discovery
Inventory every agent running across clouds, SaaS apps, and endpoints — including ones no central team provisioned.
- •Runtime policy enforcement
Intercept and stop destructive or out-of-policy agent actions before they touch production systems or sensitive data.
- •AI regulatory audit readiness
Close the control gap against SOC 2, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act with continuously collected runtime evidence.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Discovering shadow and unmanaged AI agents across an enterprise estate
- ✓Blocking high-risk agent actions such as data deletion or production changes at runtime
- ✓Producing audit-ready evidence for SOC 2, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and EU AI Act reviews
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Agentless deployment avoids the integration work most agent-governance tools require
- ✓Runtime enforcement can block destructive actions rather than only reporting them after the fact
- ✓Compliance mapping to SOC 2, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act is built in
Cons
- ✗Launched July 16, 2026, so there is little independent long-run production evidence yet
- ✗No public pricing and no named reference customers
- ✗Funding and investor backing are not disclosed
Pricing
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
- ✓Agent discovery and inventory
- ✓Runtime guardrails and threat controls
- ✓Compliance monitoring and audit evidence packages
- ✓SIEM/SOAR/GRC integrations
Pricing is not published; Draco is sold to enterprise customers directly. Alterion says deployment spans every cloud, vendor, and team "in days, not months."
Sources
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