IBM (NYSE:IBM) is integrating its AI governance tool watsonx.governance with Guardium AI Security — its tool for securing AI models, data, and their usage — to simplify and bolster AgentOps for enterprises.
AgentOps, short for agent operations and also otherwise known as agent development lifecycle management, is a growing area of focus for enterprises as agent sprawl becomes a key challenge, mostly driven by vendors lining up to offer enterprises tools to create AI agents for a plethora of different tasks.
“AgentOps is a new discipline with growing pains, and tool sprawl is one of them. Integrating agentic governance and security gives AI builders a unified perspective and controls. Integrating the two also makes it less likely for risks like shadow agents to proliferate,” said Heather Gentile, director of product for IBM watsonx.governance, risk, and compliance.
The way the integration works is that both products share information about AI assets, such as AI project inventory.
However, there is a catch. Enterprises who wish to take advantage of this integration will need to have both watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security deployed, according to Vishal Kamat, VP of data security at IBM.