An AI agent can complete its assignment and still cross a security boundary. Recent incidents show that agents can circumvent security controls while using tools, credentials, and services to pursue their assigned goals. Monitoring and enforcement need to operate outside the agent’s reach so that it can’t alter or disable them.

NVIDIA Sentry is a security software framework that monitors AI agents and enforces policies governing their access to models, tools, and data. Part of the NVIDIA OpenShell reference architecture announced at GTC Berlin, it’s built on NVIDIA DOCA , runs on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs , and provides host-isolated runtime protection for AI agents.…