AGENT DESK NOTES

Agent Desk notes: analysis of agentic endpoint security

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Dated analysis on controlling what AI agents do on devices and in cloud workspaces. Every note states its publication date and the read dates of the sources it uses, and vendor statements are attributed to the vendor.

2026-10-12 · 3 min read
Reading the Agentic Endpoint Ranking: Why the Top Is Close
- Rankings
- Method
Why the top of our agentic endpoint ranking is close, which criteria decide the order, where the leader trails and how the order changes on equal weights.
2026-10-11 · 3 min read
The Verdict Census: Who Can Ask, Warn, Mask or Simulate
- Verdicts
Every agentic endpoint product we score documents blocking. Fewer document asking a person, warning, masking, simulating or removing. Our verdict census, vendor by vendor.
2026-10-10 · 3 min read
Cloud CLIs, Containers and Kubernetes: What a Laptop Agent Can Reach
- Cloud
A coding agent on a laptop can change cloud infrastructure through the credentials and command line tools on that laptop. What that means for control, and what vendors document.
2026-10-09 · 4 min read
Platform Owners and Standalone Vendors in Agent Security, 2025 to 2026
- Market
Koi went to Palo Alto Networks and Prompt Security to SentinelOne, while Onyx Security and Zenity raised large rounds. What the deals and rounds mean for buyers of agent controls.
2026-10-08 · 3 min read
The MCP Roadmap: Agent Identity and Enterprise-Managed Authorization
- MCP
- Standards
The Model Context Protocol roadmap of 22 August 2026 puts agent identity and enterprise security first. What it means for controls on agents at the endpoint.
2026-10-07 · 3 min read
What Analyst Placements Tell a Buyer of Agent Controls
- Market
Zenity and Noma Security say Gartner named them Market Shapers, SentinelOne cites a Latio report, and Harmonic Security quotes a Gartner overview. How to read vendor-cited analyst claims.
2026-10-06 · 3 min read
Where the Decision Runs: Local Checks, CPU Classifiers and Latency Claims
- Architecture
An agent waits while its next step is checked. Where that check runs, on the device or in a service, decides how fast it is. What Bay and Lasso Security state, and how to test it.
2026-10-04 · 4 min read
Six Agents, Nine Vendors: Who Names Which Coding and Desktop Agents
- Agents
Our census of which agentic endpoint vendors name Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Windsurf and Claude Desktop on their own pages, and how to use it.