What happened
Alterion announced general availability (July 16, 2026) of Draco, a runtime control plane that sits between AI agents and enterprise infrastructure, observing prompts/actions/payloads in real time and enforcing programmable guardrails (blocking data deletion, unsafe production changes) without requiring agent code changes.
Why it matters
Addresses a documented gap where agents pass pre-deployment review but misbehave in production (cited real incidents: a coding agent deleting a production DB, a financial agent transferring $200K to an attacker); maps behavior to SOC2/ISO 42001/EU AI Act for audit readiness.
Applicability
CISOs/risk teams in regulated industries (finance, healthcare) running production agentic workflows should evaluate now as a vendor-agnostic runtime enforcement layer.