AI Agent Security for the EU AI Act
Straiker helps organizations secure AI agents for the EU AI Act with continuous discovery, adversarial testing, runtime protection, and human control. Identify AI agents across your environment, uncover emerging attack paths, monitor agent behavior, and enforce security controls as you deploy and scale AI.
EU AI ACT RISK TIERS
Regulated or not, your AI agents are exposed.
The EU AI Act sorts AI systems into risk tiers, and your obligations depend on where they fall. Your security exposure does not. Any AI agent or AI-powered chatbot can be prompt-injected, hijacked, or manipulated into exposing sensitive data. Risk classification determines your regulatory obligations, not whether your AI systems are secure.
Unacceptable
Prohibited
Banned outright under Art. 5, such as social scoring or manipulative systems. Fines reach €35M / 7%.
High-risk
Regulated
Annex III use cases and safety components. The six articles below plus Art. 26 apply. Fines reach €15M / 3%.
Limited
Transparency
Chatbots and generated content owe disclosure duties under Art. 50. Users must know they are dealing with AI.
Minimal
Voluntary
Where most AI agents land. No statutory duties, but a prompt-injection or data-leak incident doesn't check your risk tier first.
Straiker secures AI agents across every EU AI Act risk tier. For high-risk systems, the Act adds requirements for testing, monitoring, and accountability. See how Straiker maps its AI agent security capabilities to those requirements below.
EU AI ACT SECURITY MAPPING
The EU AI Act, Answered.
See how Straiker’s AI agent security capabilities map to key EU AI Act requirements for high-risk systems, from risk management and data governance to testing, monitoring, and human oversight.
Risk Management System
"A risk management system shall be established, implemented, documented and maintained... a continuous iterative process planned and run throughout the entire lifecycle of a high-risk AI system, requiring regular systematic review and updating."
Discover AI maintains a live inventory of every AI agent, MCP server, and tool in your environment, the always-on foundation for the lifecycle risk management Article 9 requires. Continuous posture scoring flags new vulnerabilities and drift without manual review cycles.
Data & Data Governance
"A risk management system shall be established, implemented, documented and maintained... a continuous iterative process planned and run throughout the entire lifecycle of a high-risk AI system, requiring regular systematic review and updating."
Discover AI maintains a live inventory of every AI agent, MCP server, and tool in your environment, the always-on foundation for the lifecycle risk management Article 9 requires. Continuous posture scoring flags new vulnerabilities and drift without manual review cycles.
Transparency & Information to Deployers
"High-risk AI systems shall be designed and developed in such a way as to ensure that their operation is sufficiently transparent to enable deployers to interpret a system's output and use it appropriately."
Defend AI generates immutable audit trails across every agent interaction, decision, action, tool call, and data access, giving deployers and auditors an interpretable record of how the system behaved.
Human Oversight
"High-risk AI systems shall be designed... that they can be effectively overseen by natural persons during the period in which they are in use... [including the ability] to intervene in the operation of the high-risk AI system or interrupt the system."
Defend AI enforces runtime guardrails, override controls, and escalation triggers so operators can intervene in or halt agent actions at any point. That is the technical human-in-the-loop capability Article 14 mandates.
Accuracy, Robustness & Cybersecurity
"High-risk AI systems shall be resilient against attempts by unauthorised third parties to alter their use, outputs or performance... measures to prevent, detect, respond to... inputs designed to cause the AI model to make a mistake (adversarial examples)."
Ascend AI continuously red-teams your agents against prompt injection, adversarial examples, and model evasion, the exact attack categories Article 15 names. It delivers pre-deployment sign-off and audit-grade evidence that your system is resilient.
Post-Market Monitoring
"Providers shall establish and document a post-market monitoring system... actively and systematically collect, document and analyse relevant data on the performance of high-risk AI systems throughout their lifetime."
Discover AI and Defend AI together deliver the continuous runtime monitoring, behavioural drift detection, and structured data collection Article 72 requires. Every agent interaction is logged, analysed, and reportable, giving your post-market monitoring plan a live, evidence-backed foundation.
Deploying, not building? Article 26 is your obligation set.
Beyond the high-risk tier
Securing AI Agents Beyond High-Risk.
Limited- and minimal-risk AI agents carry little or no statutory paperwork, but they run in production, touch data, and take actions. Here is what Straiker does for the rest of your estate.
Transparency For user-0Facing AI Agents
"Providers shall ensure that AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons... are informed that they are interacting with an AI system... [and] the outputs... [are] marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated."
Discover AI inventories which of your AI agents talk directly to people or generate synthetic content, the exact systems Article 50 puts in scope, so none slips through undisclosed. Defend AI then monitors those interactions at runtime and logs the evidence.
Security For Minimal-Risk AI Agents
"High-risk AI systems shall be resilient against attempts by unauthorised third parties to alter their use, outputs or performance... measures to prevent, detect, respond to... inputs designed to cause the AI model to make a mistake (adversarial examples)."
Ascend AI continuously red-teams your agents against prompt injection, adversarial examples, and model evasion, the exact attack categories Article 15 names. It delivers pre-deployment sign-off and audit-grade evidence that your system is resilient.
Prove it, don't claim it
Prove EU AI ACT Readiness with Ascend AI.
Ascend AI maps your AI agents and chatbots to every chapter of the EU AI Act, red-teams each obligation against real adversarial attacks, and returns a readiness score with an executive summary your auditors and board can read. Readiness you can show, not a claim you make.
Every AI agent and chatbot is mapped to the Act, chapter by chapter, from prohibited practices through transparency and post-market monitoring.
Ascend AI red-teams each obligation against the attacks the Act names: agent goal hijack, tool misuse, prompt injection, and data leakage.
You get a readiness score, a chapter-by-chapter pass and fail breakdown, and an executive summary, with the fixes to close each gap.
Generic compliance checklists don't test anything. Ascend AI actually attacks your agents and chatbots, built for agentic apps rather than static forms, then shows you exactly where you stand and how to fix it. Straiker doesn't certify compliance. It proves readiness.
THE STRAIKER Agentic Security PLATFORM
SECURE AI AGENTS ACROSS THE FULL LIFECYCLE
Straiker brings discovery, adversarial testing, and runtime protection together to help organizations secure AI agents for the EU AI Act, from inventory and risk assessment through production enforcement.
Ascend AI
Red-team your agents continuously across 30+ exploit categories, text, code, image, audio, video, and multilingual. Know which jailbreaks land before an attacker does.
Defend AI
Runtime defense: guardrails, anomaly detection, blocking, and SOC alerting. SaaS or on-premises Helm deployment for regulated and sovereign EU environments.
Built for the audit
Audit-Ready Evidence For the EU AI Act.
Straiker is the agentic security company. Discover AI inventories your AI agents and chatbots, Ascend AI red-teams them against the EU AI Act's named attacks, and Defend AI enforces guardrails at runtime, so EU AI Act readiness becomes something you can prove, not just claim. High-risk obligations take effect this year, so whether you build, deploy, or use agents in Europe, you have to prove they are secure and overseen.
ISO 27001
Certified
SOC 2 Type II
Attested
Cloud, on-prem & sovereign
SaaS or on-prem Helm deployment
See your EU AI Act readiness score.
Run Ascend AI against your own AI agents and chatbots and get a chapter-by-chapter readiness score, or book a walkthrough of the article-by-article mapping first.
