AI Security That Enforces Agent Purpose
Align AI agent data use, access, and actions with intended business purpose in real time.
AI Agents Need More Than Access. They Need Purpose.
Agents Overexpose Data
An agent serving one customer goes rogue, exposing thousands of other customers' records and triggering a data breach and privacy violations.
Agents Misuse Sensitive Data
A finance agent discloses nonpublic earnings in a report before their release, creating compliance risks.
Agents Take Harmful Actions
A coding agent goes rogue, making unauthorized changes to production systems that disrupt operations and cause business harm.
Understand Purpose. Enforce Boundaries. Prove Control.
Lightbeam understands each agent’s purpose and controls its data access, system privileges, and actions in real time to prevent harmful behavior and enforce business boundaries.
Give AI Agents Autonomy Without Losing Control.
Lightbeam combines AI Data Security, purpose-based access control, and runtime controls to keep AI agents aligned with their intended business purpose.
- . Understand what agents can access and do.
- . Enforce least agency with adaptive policies.
- . Prevent data exposure and harmful actions in real time.
Protect sensitive data by controlling what data AI agents and GenAI can access, use, and expose based on business purpose.
Enforce least agency by limiting each agent's access to the data, applications, APIs, and resources needed for its intended business purpose.
Secure GenAI interactions and monitor agent behavior in real time. Enforce guardrails to prevent sensitive data exposure and harmful actions outside intended business purpose.
Protect sensitive data by controlling what data AI agents and GenAI can access, use, and expose based on business purpose.
Enforce least agency by limiting each agent's access to the data, applications, APIs, and resources needed for its intended business purpose.
Secure GenAI interactions and monitor agent behavior in real time. Enforce guardrails to prevent sensitive data exposure and harmful actions outside intended business purpose.
Beyond Traditional AI Security
Lightbeam combines data identity, Agent Purpose and adaptive enforcement to secure GenAI interactions and autonomous agent actions in real time.
The Lightbeam Advantage
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Data Identity Context
Know data sensitivity, ownership, identity and business context, including whose data is involved.
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Purpose-Aware Security
Check whether agent access, data use and actions match business purpose, not just permissions.
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Adaptive Enforcement
Block harmful actions, restrict access and remediate risks in real time before incidents occur.
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Enterprise AI Governance
Govern GenAI and autonomous agents across enterprise data, applications, tools and environments.
Traditional AI Security Approaches
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Limited Data Context
Sees prompts, tool calls or labels, but may lack data ownership, identity and business context.
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Permission-Based Controls
Checks access rights or rules without assessing whether actions fit business purpose.
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Reactive Security Controls
Often alerts or blocks interactions, leaving harmful actions and access risks unresolved.
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Fragmented AI Governance
Secures individual AI systems without consistent controls across enterprise systems.
The Security Foundation for Trusted AI
Lightbeam unifies data security, access governance, and privacy to protect enterprise data, enable secure AI adoption, and enforce the boundaries autonomous agents need to operate safely.
AI Security
Safely deploy GenAI and autonomous AI agents with real-time controls over sensitive data, access, and actions.
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AI Governance
Continuously align agent privileges to the data, applications, APIs, and resources required for intended business purpose.
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Data Security Posture Management
Find sensitive data, understand risk, and reduce exposure across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments.
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Data Classification
Classify, label, and govern sensitive data for security, privacy, and AI use.
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Privacy Operations
Connect sensitive data to identity, purpose, consent, retention, and regulatory obligations.
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Breach & Ransomware
Understand whose data is exposed and reduce the blast radius of data incidents.
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Insider Risk
Detect risky access, sharing, and data exposure before it becomes a business problem.
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“Within a few weeks we were able to provide the personal data discovered within their environment. It was an eye opener and it helped a lot to convince the security board to pursue the usage of the software."
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Protecting Data and People in the AI Era
Lightbeam helps teams prove how sensitive data is governed, protected, and used across AI, privacy, and compliance workflows.
Why Leaders Choose Lightbeam
1700000 +
Entities Protected
180 +TB
Sensitive Data Secured
“What we want to make sure we’re able to do is protect data from AI use that could cause a security risk. If we want to restrict sensitive data, we need the ability to identify it and put policies in place that don’t allow that AI system to access it, while maybe allowing access to other information that can help automate tasks or analyze data.”
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"Lightbeam is an excellent data privacy automation platform I've used for a few months. What I like best is its ability to help me automate privacy compliance and security tasks, and provide a 360-degree view of sensitive data sprawl. The platform's user interface is also easy to use and navigate, even for someone who's not very tech-savvy like myself."
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