Kyndryl Agentic AI Digital Trust Services provides security architecture, governance, and implementation support for autonomous and agentic AI systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Defender for Cloud, Purview, Sentinel, Application Insights, and Fabric IQ, the service enables secure AI agent authentication, authorization, behavior monitoring, and model governance, aligned with Zero Trust AI principles and responsible AI practices.
Customer Challenges
Enterprises adopting agentic AI face new risks as autonomous systems interact with sensitive data, infrastructure, and business processes, including:
- Shadow AI and ungoverned agent growth with limited visibility and inconsistent policy enforcement
- Identity, authentication, and authorization gaps that lead to privilege escalation or unauthorized access
- Model security risks such as poisoning, adversarial manipulation, prompt injection, and loss of model integrity
- Difficulty meeting GDPR, HIPAA, AI Act, and industry compliance requirements for data protection and AI operations
- Lack of real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and behavioral analysis for autonomous agent actions
- Limited auditability and accountability for AI-driven decisions in regulated or mission-critical environments
Value Proposition
Kyndryl applies Zero Trust AI principles based on continuous verification, least-privilege access, and governed autonomy to help customers securely design, deploy, and scale AI agents, models, and workflows:
- End-to-end Agentic AI security design covering authentication, authorization, monitoring, model governance, data protection, and compliance controls
- Unified security using Azure AI Foundry, Defender for Cloud, Purview, and Sentinel for centralized visibility, threat detection, and policy enforcement
- Scalable architecture supporting growing AI agent ecosystems, model portfolios, and evolving enterprise needs
- Protection against AI-specific threats including adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data exfiltration, and unsafe autonomous behavior
- Real-time observability with Application Insights and Azure Digital Twins plus automated guardrails, kill-switch actions, and incident response
- Responsible AI governance including explainability, fairness and bias monitoring, transparency controls, and automated compliance validation
- Integration with existing SIEM, SOAR, identity, and data protection platforms to unify enterprise security and AI security operations
- Data classification, lineage tracking, sensitivity labeling, and access governance using Microsoft Purview across training, inference, and model outputs
The Kyndryl Agentic AI Digital Trust model provides a continuous control loop with four core pillars:
- Observability & Intelligence – visibility into AI agent inventories, interactions, and behavior patterns
- Runtime Protection & Mediation – real-time guardrails during agent execution with risk-based controls
- Governance & Certification – validation of compliance, operational readiness, and safe deployment
- Continuous Controls – ongoing monitoring, reporting, and adaptive risk management
Why Kyndryl?
- Expertise in AI governance, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and digital trust
- Platform-agnostic services across major cloud and AI ecosystems
- End-to-end delivery from assessment and design through implementation and managed operations
- Decades managing complex enterprise data, infrastructure, and hybrid environments at global scale
- 7,500+ cybersecurity and resiliency experts supporting advanced security initiatives worldwide
- Trusted by thousands of enterprise customers, including 60% of the Fortune Global 100 and over half of the Fortune Global 500
Contact Us
Terms, conditions, duration, and pricing are tailored to each engagement. Contact us to discuss a solution aligned to your AI security and governance needs. Offer availability may vary by country.
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