Government

An agent in a commercial deployment that misfires creates a support ticket. An agent wired into logistics, intelligence, or command-support systems that misfires creates an operational event, and the window for catching it after the fact may not exist. The case for deciding before execution is strongest exactly where these agents are going.

These agents are also targets. Prompt injection and tool abuse are not theoretical failure modes when the adversary is a nation-state with a standing interest in your networks; every document an agent reads and every tool it holds is attack surface. Securing the agent is part of defending the mission, not an IT hygiene item.

Most agent-security products assume a SaaS control plane: the agent asks the vendor's cloud for permission, and the answer rides back over the internet. That assumption dies at the boundary of a classified enclave. No round trip is possible, so the product either fails open, which is not enforcement, or cannot run at all.

The constraints go past connectivity. Software is carried in through controlled channels, changes move through change control, hardware is yours, and the people with access are cleared. A security product for these networks has to be installable, operable, and provable entirely from inside them.

VisIQ's sovereign deployment puts the whole control plane on your hardware: on-premises installation, an appliance shape for constrained sites, and a fully airgapped mode where rule bundles are carried in and nothing about an agent's activity leaves the network. Policy evaluates locally, per action, before execution.

Disconnection is a designed-for state, not an exception. Policy denials always enforce, evaluation failures fail closed, and the offline licensing model degrades management conveniences, never enforcement. An assessor can pull the network cable and watch the gate keep answering.

Every decision writes a signed record inside the boundary, so investigations, inspections, and audits are answered from evidence that never left your custody.

A FedRAMP authorization boundary must contain every system that touches federal data or enforces controls over it. A product that computes each authorization decision in a multi-tenant vendor cloud drags that cloud into your boundary and its assessment. VisIQ's decision point deploys inside the environment already under assessment, so the boundary keeps the shape your authorizing official expects.

The same property serves the harder cases beyond FedRAMP: IL-rated enclaves and disconnected networks where the only acceptable answer to 'what does this product send out' is nothing.