Agentic AI Digital Trust
Unlock AI value with governance that fuels growth and efficiency
Read the press releaseSecure AI innovation starts with trust. Kyndryl Agentic AI Digital Trust enables real-time oversight to register, certify, and monitor every agent across hybrid environments — so you can innovate faster while staying compliant.
Why work with us
Trusted foundation
Establish governance and security controls to help AI agents stay compliant and operate responsibly.
Build smart
Enable teams to build trusted agentic systems without reengineering guardrails.
Run safe
Maintain visibility, verification, and compliance for autonomous actions in any environment.
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Journey toward AI native
Kyndryl’s AI-Native journey embeds AI at the core with agility by design and the Agentic AI Framework for continuous reinvention.
The future of agentic AI is evolution not revolution
Agentic AI evolves through continuous progress, blending LLM-powered agents with governance for secure enterprise adoption.
How people readiness will unlock the promise of agentic AI
Organizations that prioritize people-first strategies and intentional design will gain the most from their AI investments.
You have questions. We have answers.
Implementing a central control point for easier management and governance of AI agents enables you to:
- Understand your agents, serving as a single source of truth to help mitigate the risks associated with shadow AI.
- Validate each agent before launch by testing for security, resilience, and policy compliance to ensure they meet your standards before going live.
- Maintain control with real-time guardrails that keep agents operating within approved boundaries.
- Ensure visibility and transparency through immutable logs and detailed reporting capabilitie
Effective governance for agentic AI means establishing clear policies, roles, and accountability for how autonomous agents are designed, deployed, and managed. This includes defining who is responsible for agent actions, setting boundaries for what agents are permitted to do, and ensuring that every agent’s activities are transparent and auditable. Governance frameworks should incorporate agent-specific threat modelling, regular risk assessments, and alignment with industry standards and regulations. Importantly, governance is not a one-off exercise. It requires ongoing oversight, cross-functional collaboration between IT, security, and business teams, and mechanisms for adapting policies as technology and risks evolve.
To effectively maintain visibility and control over agentic AI, organizations need to employ both technical and organizational measures. Implementing real-time monitoring and behavioral analytics is essential to track the actions of each agent, identify any deviations from expected behavior, and maintain immutable audit logs for accountability. Assigning unique identities to agents and enforcing a least-privilege access policy helps limit potential damage from compromised or misaligned agents. Additionally, automated guardrails and policy enforcement mechanisms can suspend or restrict an agent's actions if they violate established rules. By combining these capabilities with regular reviews and thorough incident response planning, organizations can ensure that agentic AI operates within safe and trustworthy boundaries.
A "security by design" approach is essential for creating trustworthy agentic AI. This involves integrating security and governance controls at every stage of the agent lifecycle, from the initial design and development to deployment and ongoing operations. Security testing, validation, and threat modeling should be incorporated into development pipelines. Additionally, runtime protections such as anomaly detection, guardian agents, and rapid isolation capabilities can help contain incidents before they escalate. By making security and governance foundational rather than treating them as afterthoughts, organizations can confidently scale agentic AI, knowing that risks are proactively managed and trust is maintained with customers, partners, and regulators.