New product delivers on the company’s Intent Security vision with real-time behavioral analysis at sub-50ms speeds and 99.83% detection accuracy

Lasso Security, the platform enabling secure AI adoption at enterprise scale, today launched Intent Deputy: the industry’s first behavioral intent framework purpose-built for securing AI agents. Intent Deputy is the foundational product behind what Lasso defines as “Intent Security,” a new approach that moves beyond broken data patterns to analyze behavioral intent in real time and understand why AI acts, not just what it says.

Elad Schulman, CEO & Co-Founder, Lasso Security, declared, “Intent Security represents the breakthrough security paradigm this rapidly evolving market demands, and Intent Deputy is our first-of-its-kind solution delivering it. It equips security teams with precise behavioral baselines to identify and stop agent deviations, caused by misconfiguration, behavioral drift, or malicious intent, in real time, before they escalate.”

Intent Security: The Essential Layer in the Age of Agentic AI
Enterprises are shifting from isolated chatbots to autonomous AI agents that reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows across sensitive systems—accessing data, calling APIs, and acting independently on users' behalf. This creates a non-deterministic attack surface where context and intent determine whether identical content is benign or malicious.

Legacy security tools relying on regex classifiers, keyword scanning, or high-latency LLM-only detection fail here. They miss sophisticated threats like indirect prompt injection, tool misuse, or excessive agency, while imposing performance penalties that degrade the end-user experience. Intent Security addresses this gap by shifting the focus from static content analysis to dynamic understanding of intent across the full interaction lifecycle.

The explosive rise of tools like OpenClaw exemplifies the urgency. OpenClaw empowers users with significant autonomy, but misconfigurations or manipulations can expose credentials, local files, and connected services, or trigger rogue behaviors such as mass spamming.

“OpenClaw is shadow AI with a broader blast radius,” said Elad Schulman, CEO & Co-Founder, Lasso Security. “Employees adopt these tools because they genuinely help them work better, but the autonomous scale amplifies familiar vulnerabilities into enterprise-wide threats. Prohibition isn’t viable; the path forward is intelligent governance through deep behavioral visibility.”

Introducing Intent Deputy: Bringing Intent Security to Life
Intent Security defines the new category; Intent Deputy is the product that makes it real. As the runtime intelligence engine of the Lasso AI Security Platform, Intent Deputy operationalizes this approach. It shifts from superficial, content-based scanning to deep behavioral-intent analysis across every AI interaction.

Ophir Dror, Lasso’s CPO & Co-Founder, explained, “Legacy tools only look at content: what the user asked or the AI output. Intent Deputy asks the real question: Is this action aligned with the agent's authorized purpose? A marketing agent suddenly generating code? That's often scope drift, not malice. By creating unique behavioral fingerprints for agents, as we do for humans, we detect anomalies in real time, deliver explainable audits for compliance, and let enterprises adopt agentic AI safely.”

Intent Deputy delivers on the Intent Security vision through four core capabilities:

• Intent Alignment, Not Data Patterns — Verifies that every action an AI agent takes is aligned with its authorized purpose by analyzing the full session history and context, not just scanning individual prompts for regex patterns and keywords. This catches threats that legacy tools miss, such as a customer service agent that begins exfiltrating data through a sequence of seemingly benign requests.
• Real-Time Protection Without the Performance Tax — Delivers 99.83% threat detection at sub-50ms speeds, ensuring security never degrades the AI user experience. 570× more cost-effective than comparable cloud-native guardrail approaches.
• Behavioral Baselines for Users and Agents — Creates unique "fingerprints" based on historical usage patterns, enabling detection of anomalous behavior even without malicious intent, the same approach enterprises already use for human identity security. ​​ When a user or agent’s behavioral fingerprint deviates from their established baseline, Intent Deputy flags the anomaly in real time.
• Explainable Compliance — Provides human-readable evidence that AI operated within its authorized scope, giving legal and compliance teams the audit trail they need.

Itzik Menashe, CISO & VP IT Productivity at Telit Cinterion, shares, "As we scale AI agents across the enterprise, the security challenge isn't just what data flows through them, it's understanding why they're taking the actions they take. Legacy tools may force enterprises to choose between security rigor and agent performance. Lasso's approach brings behavioral visibility into an AI environment at the speed business requires, without compromising the user experience that drives adoption."

Intent Deputy is available today as part of the Lasso AI Security Platform. For more information or to request a demo, visit www.lasso.security.

• What is Intent Security? Learn more: lasso.security/platform/intent-security
• Read the blog: Introducing Intent Security: A Behavioral Baseline Framework for Agentic AI
• Read the blog: OpenClaw and the Agentic Future: A Practical Guide to Discovery

About Lasso
Lasso is an AI Security Platform that delivers comprehensive observability, governance, and real-time defense across the entire AI ecosystem. Built to support the shift from human-led AI usage to autonomous AI agents, Lasso enables enterprises to securely manage the AI they use, build, and deploy to production.

Lasso empowers organizations to innovate safely and confidently with LLMs and agents. For more information visit www.lasso.security.

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Intent Security is a new approach that analyzes behavioral patterns to understand why AI acts rather than just what it says.