Question 1

What is AI agent security?

Accepted Answer

AI agent security is the practice of protecting autonomous AI agents — and the systems they interact with — from threats, misuse, and unintended actions at runtime. It includes blocking prompt injection attacks, preventing credential exposure, enforcing tool call policies, limiting blast radius through scoped identities, and maintaining immutable audit trails. Polaxis implements AI agent security at the tool call interception layer, meaning controls run before any action executes.

Question 2

Is Polaxis the same as Polixis?

Accepted Answer

No. Polixis (polixis.com) is a Swiss RegTech company founded in 2012 that provides AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and PEP data for banks and financial institutions. Polaxis (polaxis.io) is an AI agent security and governance platform for software engineers building autonomous AI agents. The two companies operate in completely different markets with different products, buyers, and problems. Polaxis does not do financial compliance, AML, KYC, or sanctions screening.

Question 3

What is an AI agent governance platform?

Accepted Answer

An AI agent governance platform intercepts and controls the tool calls that AI agents make at runtime. It enforces configurable policies, requires human approval for high-risk actions, tracks spending budgets, maintains an immutable audit trail, and generates compliance reports — so organizations can safely deploy autonomous AI agents without losing oversight.

Question 4

What is Polaxis?

Accepted Answer

Polaxis is an AI agent firewall and compliance platform. It intercepts every tool call your AI agents make, evaluates it against your policies in under 5ms, and either allows, blocks, or routes it to a human for approval. It also generates auditor-ready SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, EU AI Act, Australian Privacy Act, OWASP Agentic Top 10, and Insurance Evidence compliance reports automatically from your audit trail.

Question 5

How does Polaxis compare to Prompt Security or Lakera Guard?

Accepted Answer

Prompt Security and Lakera Guard focus on the LLM text layer — detecting malicious prompts and validating model outputs. Polaxis governs the tool call layer: what the agent actually executes in the world. Polaxis adds behavioral anomaly detection, human-in-the-loop approvals, budget controls, and on-demand compliance reports — a different layer of the AI stack, solving a different problem.

Question 6

How long does it take to integrate Polaxis with an AI agent?

Accepted Answer

About 10 minutes for the Python SDK: install the package, create an agent in the dashboard, and add two lines of code. For MCP-connected agents, set three environment variables — no code changes required. Polaxis works with OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, PydanticAI, AutoGen, or any custom agent framework.

Question 7

What compliance reports does Polaxis generate?

Accepted Answer

Polaxis generates seven compliance reports on demand: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, EU AI Act (Articles 13-15), Australian Privacy Act, OWASP Agentic Top 10 (10/10 coverage), and an Insurance Evidence Package for AI underwriters. Filter by agent and date range. All reports are sourced from your immutable audit trail and exported as auditor-ready PDFs.

Question 8

What is the OWASP Agentic Top 10?

Accepted Answer

The OWASP Agentic Top 10 (ASI 2026) is a security standard that identifies the ten highest-risk attack vectors for autonomous AI agents, including prompt injection, excessive agency, insecure tool execution, and data exfiltration. Polaxis provides 10/10 coverage of the OWASP Agentic Top 10, with a one-click compliance report mapping each risk to your governance controls.