Lasso Security Introduces Intent Deputy, Pioneering 'Intent Security' as the New Standard for Securing AI Agents

Intent Deputy is the industry's first behavioral intent framework purpose-built for securing AI agents, delivering real-time protection without performance degradation.

Published on Feb. 21, 2026

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Lasso Security, the platform enabling secure AI adoption at enterprise scale, launched Intent Deputy, the industry's first behavioral intent framework purpose-built for securing AI agents. Intent Deputy is the foundational product behind what Lasso defines as 'Intent Security,' a new approach that moves beyond broken data patterns to analyze behavioral intent in real time and understand why AI acts, not just what it says.

Why it matters

As enterprises shift from isolated chatbots to autonomous AI agents that reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows across sensitive systems, a new non-deterministic attack surface emerges where context and intent determine whether identical content is benign or malicious. Legacy security tools relying on regex classifiers, keyword scanning, or high-latency LLM-only detection fail to address this gap, missing sophisticated threats while imposing performance penalties. Intent Security addresses this by shifting the focus from static content analysis to dynamic understanding of intent across the full interaction lifecycle.

The details

Intent Deputy delivers on the Intent Security vision through four core capabilities: 1) Verifying that every action an AI agent takes is aligned with its authorized purpose by analyzing the full session history and context, not just scanning individual prompts; 2) Delivering 99.83% threat detection at sub-50ms speeds, ensuring security never degrades the AI user experience; 3) Creating unique 'fingerprints' based on historical usage patterns to detect anomalous behavior; and 4) Providing human-readable evidence that AI operated within its authorized scope for legal and compliance teams.

  • Lasso Security launched Intent Deputy on February 18, 2026.

The players

Lasso Security

The platform enabling secure AI adoption at enterprise scale.

Elad Schulman

CEO and Co-Founder of Lasso Security.

Ophir Dror

Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Lasso Security.

Itzik Menashe

CISO and VP of IT Productivity at Telit Cinterion.

OpenClaw

An AI tool that empowers users with significant autonomy, but misconfigurations or manipulations can expose credentials, local files, and connected services, or trigger rogue behaviors such as mass spamming.

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What they’re saying

“Intent Security represents the breakthrough security paradigm this rapidly evolving market demands, and Intent Deputy is our first-of-its-kind solution delivering it. It equips security teams with precise behavioral baselines to identify and stop agent deviations, caused by misconfiguration, behavioral drift, or malicious intent, in real time, before they escalate.”

— Elad Schulman, CEO & Co-Founder, Lasso Security (cioinfluence.com)

“OpenClaw is shadow AI with a broader blast radius. Employees adopt these tools because they genuinely help them work better, but the autonomous scale amplifies familiar vulnerabilities into enterprise-wide threats. Prohibition isn't viable; the path forward is intelligent governance through deep behavioral visibility.”

— Elad Schulman, CEO & Co-Founder, Lasso Security (cioinfluence.com)

“Legacy tools only look at content: what the user asked or the AI output. Intent Deputy asks the real question: Is this action aligned with the agent's authorized purpose? A marketing agent suddenly generating code? That's often scope drift, not malice. By creating unique behavioral fingerprints for agents, as we do for humans, we detect anomalies in real time, deliver explainable audits for compliance, and let enterprises adopt agentic AI safely.”

— Ophir Dror, CPO & Co-Founder, Lasso Security (cioinfluence.com)

“As we scale AI agents across the enterprise, the security challenge isn't just what data flows through them, it's understanding why they're taking the actions they take. Legacy tools may force enterprises to choose between security rigor and agent performance. Lasso's approach brings behavioral visibility into an AI environment at the speed business requires, without compromising the user experience that drives adoption.”

— Itzik Menashe, CISO & VP IT Productivity, Telit Cinterion (cioinfluence.com)

What’s next

Lasso Security plans to continue developing Intent Deputy and expanding its Intent Security platform to help enterprises securely adopt and scale AI agents across their organizations.

The takeaway

Lasso Security's Intent Deputy represents a new approach to securing AI agents by focusing on understanding their behavioral intent rather than just analyzing their content. This shift from static content scanning to dynamic intent analysis is crucial as enterprises increasingly rely on autonomous AI agents that can pose new security risks if their actions are not properly monitored and aligned with their authorized purpose.