AI Agent Discovery: How Portal26 Helps Enterprises Find AI Agents Across 3 Key Locations
AI agents are no longer a future concern. Gartner projects that by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024 – a 33-fold increase in four years. And, as of 2025, 79% of organizations report some level of agentic AI adoption, with 96% planning to expand their usage.
The pace is striking. But here is the problem most enterprise security and IT teams are not talking about openly: the majority of those AI agents are not formally sanctioned, logged, or monitored. They are running inside your organization right now, and most teams have no clear picture of where, how many, or what they are doing.
That is the AI agent discovery problem, and it is the first thing Portal26’s Agent Management Platform (AMP), is built to solve.
Why AI Agent Discovery Is the Starting Point for Agentic AI Security
You cannot govern what you cannot see. Unlike chat-based AI tools, where a human is always in the conversation, AI agents operate autonomously. They make tool calls, interact with AI applications, and execute actions without waiting for human input. Security has been identified as a top challenge by 62% of practitioners and 53% of leadership when developing and deploying AI agents.
The speed and autonomy that make AI agents valuable are precisely what makes them difficult to monitor. By the time a risk surface becomes visible through traditional means, the agent may have already acted on it.
Discovery, then, is not a nice-to-have. It is the foundation on which all agentic AI governance is built. Without it, there is no visibility, no risk assessment, and no path to enforcement.
Where Are AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise?
Portal26’s Agent Management Platform discovers AI agents across three distinct locations where autonomous systems are most commonly found inside enterprise environments.
- Laptops and Endpoints
AI agents installed or running directly on employee devices are among the most overlooked vectors for ungoverned agentic activity. As individual employees and teams adopt productivity-focused AI agent tools independently, these endpoint-level agents often sit entirely outside the visibility of central IT and security teams. Portal26’s AMP surfaces these agents, giving you a clear picture of what is running on your devices and who is using it.
- Hyperscaler Environments
AI agents operating within cloud infrastructure, across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, can make high volumes of calls to AI applications and execute actions at a scale that is impossible to manually track. These agents are often deployed by development or data teams and can be difficult to detect without purpose-built tooling. Portal26’s AMP scans your hyperscaler environments to identify agents operating within them, capturing the information needed to assess their activity and risk.
- SaaS Agents
Many of the most widely used SaaS platforms now include embedded AI agents as part of their product offering. These agents may be interacting with your data, communicating with external AI applications, and taking actions on behalf of your employees without any formal security review having taken place. Portal26’s AMP identifies these SaaS-embedded agents, giving your team visibility they would not otherwise have.
What Portal26 Surfaces Once an Agent Is Discovered
AI agent discovery is only the first step. Once Portal26 identifies an agent, it surfaces the key information your team needs to understand it: the agent name, the underlying model it is using, the number of users associated with it, the volume of calls and conversations it is making to AI applications, and the specific prompts and responses passing between the agent and the AI model.
This depth of visibility transforms discovery from a simple inventory exercise into actionable intelligence, giving security and IT teams the context they need to make informed decisions about the agents running across their organization.
From Discovery to Risk: Closing the Loop
Discovery and visibility are the precondition for everything that follows. organizations cannot take action on agents they do not know exist. By identifying AI agents across laptops, hyperscale environments, and SaaS platforms, Portal26 gives your team the foundation to then assess the risk those agents are creating, using a comprehensive set of purpose-built agentic AI risk detectors that you can enable right out-of-the-box.
The result is a clear picture of your agentic AI environment, not just what agents exist, but what they are doing and what risk they represent to your organization.
The Time to Start Is Now
Cybersecurity concerns represent the top barrier to agentic AI adoption for 35% of organizations. The irony is that the longer organizations delay visibility into their agentic AI environment, the larger that security surface grows.
AI agents are already inside your enterprise. The question is whether your team knows where.
Portal26’s Agent Management Platform gives you the AI agent discovery capabilities to answer that question, across every location where agents operate.
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