What happened
AvePoint launched the Trust Platform (Nov 9-10), a cross-vendor fabric that discovers AI agents/models/tools/MCP servers, applies policies, generates audit evidence, and tracks AI spend — with AI inventory, an AI dependency graph, shadow-AI detection, ownerless-agent monitoring, and a Governance Graph mapping EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF to internal policy, supporting Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Anthropic.
Why it matters
Consolidates agent lifecycle governance, data-exposure control, recovery and cost into one platform, addressing the 88.4% AI agent-related incident rate AvePoint reports — a notable mid-market entrant into agent governance.
Applicability
Security/compliance teams needing multi-vendor agent inventory, shadow-AI detection and audit trails should pilot; validate extensibility beyond Microsoft-anchored environments.