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Intent-based security for AI agents and critical systems

See access to protected resources. Control governed interactions in real time. Prove which actions, commands, or prompts were cryptographically bound to the authorized person’s input.

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Intent-Based Security

What is Keystrike?

Keystrike is an intent-based security platform for governing AI agents and critical systems. The platform monitors access to protected resources, recording whether they are from approved employee workstations or unmanaged devices. Keystrike secures remote sessions, agentic work, and third-party access by blocking interactions to sensitive resources in real-time unless they have Proven Intent: actions, commands, or prompts that are cryptographically bound to the authorized person's input. Actions without Proven Intent are blocked.
Every governed action becomes tamper-evident, non-repudiable evidence that organizations compile into their compliance reporting.
Intent therefore isn't a guess about what a user or agent meant to do; it's proof.

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Was this action, command or prompt cryptographically bound to the authorized person's input?

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See, Control, and Prove

Across everything that acts on your systems

One control — verify every action is bound to an authorized person — across remote sessions, agentic work, and third-party access. See the Platform →

See Control Prove
Remote sessions Live view of remote access from client-enabled endpoints and unknown or unmanaged clients across documented supported protocols. Physical-input verification, tripwire alert, and real-time blocking on supported interactive protocols. Evidence of governed sessions and enforcement on supported paths, and patent-pending attestations of commands through per-keystroke cryptographic signatures.
Agentic work Approved framework includes visibility into relevant chatbot and AI-agent activity on endpoints, including unsanctioned “shadow AI” use. Require Proven Intent for governed actions, commands or prompts where enforcement is enabled. Non-repudiable cryptographic evidence connects unwarranted agent authorizations to the input prompt and approvals by the authorized person.
Third-party access Visualize how third parties behave in your network – live. Govern third-party access at keystroke level through agents, or manage third party access agentless by bounding the servers, identities, time interval, and even applications they may use. Non-repudiable evidence logs of remote access, and signed per-keystroke evidence from client-enabled governed sessions.
Customer testimonial
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Keystrike gives us greater confidence that privileged activity is being performed by an authorized person, not merely through valid credentials. It complements our existing identity, endpoint and privileged access controls with zero friction for the user, helping us demonstrate that sensitive actions originate from authorized workstations with verified human involvement.

Chief Information Security Officer, European Bank

A new control plane

What is the difference between Proven and Inferred Intent?

Keystrike is based on Proven Intent, a control that seamlessly integrates into and strengthens the rest of your security stack, across remote sessions, agentic work, and third-party access.
With Proven Intent we use the physical input that is already there to continuously
create device-bound cryptographic evidence.

  • Proven Intent is not a guess about what a user or agent meant to do; it's proof. It's cryptographic (non-repudiable) evidence that a real, authorized person is behind each action, human or not.
  • Inferred intent is a probabilistic guess about what a user or an agent meant, produced by a learning model watching behavior and context.
Keystrike Proven Intent Legacy approach Inferred Intent
Basis Cryptographic binding to the authorized person's input; device-bound evidence in supported contexts. Behavioral and contextual signals.
The question it answers Is this action, command, or prompt cryptographically bound to the authorized person's input? Does this action look expected, normal, or acceptably low-risk?
Nature of the signal Cryptographic evidence, not a behavioral estimate. Probabilistic and risk-scored.
Enforcement Block interactions and actions without Proven Intent; apply connection control where supported. Alert, challenge, allow, or deny based on score and policy.
Evidence produced Signed, tamper-evident, non-repudiable evidence from governed actions. Events, decision logs, risk scores, and behavioral context.

Keystrike mitigates the risks that ride authorized access

Stolen credentials in governed sessions Session hijacking via malicious input Adversary-in-the-middle on RDP/SSH Piggybacking on authenticated sessions Vendor account abuse AI agents acting without person-binding

Prompt-injected agents are covered via the AI-agent early-access program. See the Platform →

Integration

How Keystrike completes
the security stack

Keystrike completes traditional security solutions by giving them the ground truth and session-level verification they were not built to provide.

Tool Gap for remote access Keystrike fills Why it works
PAM Credentials managed, not continuously verified

CONTROL: Cryptographic attestation beyond credential checkout.

SEE: Live map surfaces all access paths outside PAM scope.

 PAM controls the vault. Keystrike verifies who controls every command inside the session and maps every access path your PAM doesn't manage.
IGA / MFA Lifecycle focus; slow to detect privilege abuse

SEE: Live map detects misuse across active sessions.

CONTROL: Attestation blocks unauthorized commands in real time.

 IGA manages entitlements. Keystrike shows when those entitlements are being misused live and stops the damage before it occurs.
SIEM Log aggregation; delayed alerts on past events

SEE: Live topology as a new data source.

PROVE: Every action inside the session is verified and enforced.

 SIEM correlates events after the fact. Keystrike feeds it binary cryptographic signals and live topology data that make every alert more accurate.
ZTNA Verifies access at connection; cannot see inside the session

SEE: Maps lateral movement inside the trusted perimeter.

CONTROL: Extends continuous verification to command execution.

 ZTNA controls the door. Keystrike verifies every action taken inside the room and maps everything ZTNA can't see.
Where it matters most

Anywhere a privileged action, human or machine, reaches a system that matters

A vendor needs RDP to one server for one afternoon.

Today that usually means standing credentials and an audit log that shows only the login. With Keystrike, the session is seen, every action inside it is verified as genuine human input, and the whole session becomes signed evidence — and vendors who can't install an agent can still be governed through agentless, time-boxed access.

An AI agent is granted access to act in your environment.

AI-Agent reads a support ticket, a web page, or a document carrying an instruction it was never meant to follow — and tries to act on it. Because that action isn't bound to an authorizing person, it fails the same test every other action on the platform faces.

The same pattern holds in critical infrastructure, regulated industries, enterprise IT, and managed services — anywhere a privileged action, human or machine, reaches a system that matters.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

A control plane that verifies intent on every action — not just identity at login. An action carries intent only when it's cryptographically bound to a real, authorized person, whether they type it themselves or stand behind an agent acting for them. Keystrike delivers this as the Intent-Based Security Platform, which verifies that binding and blocks the actions that lack it.

The same way as for a person: by binding the action to a specific authorizing person with device-bound cryptographic evidence. An agent acting on its own — redirected by a poisoned prompt, for example — carries no such binding. Agentless visibility into AI activity from managed endpoints is running with current clients today, included for every customer; shadow-AI surfacing and enforcement reach early-access participants first. Sign up for early access to get in line.

Keystrike complements and strengthens them by governing a control point none of them owns — the intent behind each action after access is granted. When your need is controlling privileged actions rather than managing the full credential lifecycle, Keystrike is a lighter path for that scope.

Yes — it deploys alongside IAM, MFA, PAM, ZTNA, IGA, EDR, and SIEM, with no infrastructure changes.

The same test applies to a person's keystroke and an AI agent's action: was this bound to an authorized person? If yes, it proceeds; if not, it's blocked and recorded.

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You can't govern what you can't see — or prove what you can't verify

See, control, and prove every action on your systems, human or not. The Intent-Based Security Platform verifies intent where your stack verifies identity — and gives you cryptographic evidence for every action it governs.

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