Agent Discovery & Mapping
Pillar 1 of Agent-Aware Security: Discover
You cannot secure what you cannot see. Human identities are governed through directories and SSO providers, but non-human identities—SaaS bots, LLM agents, and RPA workflows—often operate in the shadows. They’re created outside IT visibility, granted wide-ranging permissions, and silently persist until something goes wrong.
Consider a marketing team that installs a Slack bot to auto-post campaign updates. Months pass, and that same bot requests new scopes to read private channels, export analytics, and connect to Google Drive. Without centralized discovery, it becomes impossible to know which apps are connected, which permissions were granted, and whether those actions align with policy. Multiply by dozens of teams and hundreds of integrations—hidden risk grows fast.
Why Discovery Matters
ClarioSec’s Agent Discovery & Mapping brings these actors into the light. The platform ingests from Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365/Teams, GitHub, and cloud IAMs to automatically identify:
- Bots installed by end-users or teams
- AI agents created for workflow automation and copilots
- Service accounts, OAuth apps, webhooks, and API tokens with persistent access
- Scopes, effective actions, and connected systems tied to each agent
Discovery alone is not enough. Mapping transforms inventory into usable intelligence by building a relationship graph. You don’t just know an agent exists—you see how it interacts and moves data across systems.
From Inventory to Insight
Mapping reveals what identity-centric tools can’t: the flows agents execute. A single rogue bot may pull customer records from Salesforce, save them into Google Drive, and send summaries via Slack. That path is invisible to traditional IAM or SSPM, but with ClarioSec, the end-to-end route is visible and monitored. The platform highlights:
- Over-provisioned agents with excessive scopes
- Bridging agents that create lateral exposure between apps
- Dormant agents that should be revoked
- Agents tied to sensitive workflows (finance, HR, privacy data)
This intelligence feeds directly into drift-aware scoring and runtime enforcement, enabling a proactive stance instead of reactive cleanup.
The Risks of Staying Blind
When non-human agents remain undiscovered, enterprises face multiple risks: privilege creep as bots accumulate permissions beyond their scope; data exfiltration as information moves between apps without audit trails; regulatory exposure under GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001; and operational fragilitywhen undocumented automations break critical processes after a token rotation or vendor change.
Compliance & Governance Alignment
Agent discovery is essential to compliance evidence. Frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001require identity governance and access monitoring. GDPR expects you to know where personal data flows. Emerging AI governance (e.g., EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001) puts pressure on transparency. ClarioSec provides the unified inventory and mapping auditors expect—logging agents, scopes, connected systems, and relationships.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Agent Discovery & Mapping?
A live inventory of non-human identities—SaaS bots, service accounts, OAuth apps, webhooks, and LLM workflows—showing ownership, effective permissions, relationships, and recent activity context across your SaaS and cloud estate.
How is this different from SSPM?
SSPM focuses on static configuration posture. Discovery & Mapping centers on the actors themselves—their scopes, behavior, and reachable data—so you can baseline normal activity, detect drift, and enforce policy at runtime (Block → Alert → Log, JIT approvals).
Which systems does ClarioSec discover?
Today: Google Workspace and Slack. Broad platform coverage includes GitHub, Microsoft 365/Teams, and AWS/Azure/GCP IAM via OAuth/API connectors, with continuous ingestion and normalization.
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