Axonius, the asset intelligence platform for unified security operations and exposure management, today announced Shadow AI Discovery, AI Platforms Inventory, and AI Application Settings for the Axonius Asset Cloud. Security and IT teams can now find AI applications, agents, models, and infrastructure running inside environment and see how each is configured.
Axonius has spent years helping security and IT teams see and govern assets including cyber assets, cyber-physical assets, software assets, SaaS applications, and identities. AI is newest and fastest-growing asset class spread across multiple asset types.
Axonius has more than 1,400 bi-directional integrations and reconciles what each reports into single platform that catalogs what exists, how it is configured, and who owns it. AI assets arrive with same reconciliation problem every other asset class arrived with: endpoint vendor sees one thing, cloud security vendor sees another, and identity provider sees a third.
Shadow AI Discovery brings critical visibility into AI usage including hidden usage detectable only by correlating signals from multiple sources. Enables teams to instantly evaluate status of more than 200 leading enterprise applications. Existing depth in SaaS hygiene also allows visibility into AI vendors' stance on data training and autonomy levels.
AI Platforms Inventory deepens existing bi-directional integrations into AI platforms including Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI and more, designed to uncover active models, autonomous agents, and Model Context Protocol servers, correlating each asset directly to human and non-human identities driving them.
AI Application Settings addresses security exposure with new configuration auditing capabilities. By reading settings directly from connected adapters, teams can understand whether AI features have been activated and determine whether usage is approved or unapproved. Continuously auditing settings against compliance policies surfaces misconfigurations and policy drift.
Gartner predicts by 2028 average global Fortune 500 enterprise will have over 150,000 agents in use, up from less than 15 in 2025, generating significant agent sprawl. Only 13% of organizations believe they have right AI agent governance in place.
Every asset class followed same sequence: something new shows up, spreads faster than teams can track, and for year or two only honest answer to how many is guess. Axonius claims finding things across systems is problem it has spent nine years solving. Putting AI assets into existing asset context data means teams inherit queries, dashboards, correlations and enforcement actions they already run, instead of buying separate AI inventory tool.
Availability: Shadow AI Discovery generally available, AI Platforms Inventory and AI Application Settings in preview by end of January 2027.
About Axonius
Axonius is asset intelligence platform for unified security operations and exposure management. The Axonius Asset Cloud is one source of truth for assets and exposures across entire environment, providing all right context to prioritize risks and coordinate fixes. Cited as one of fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around world.
