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What is Keystrike?
Keystrike is an intent-based security platform for governing AI agents and critical systems. The platform monitors access to protected resources, blocks interactions without Proven Intent and creates tamper-evident, non-repudiable evidence from governed actions.
Access can be authorized.
The action still needs proof.
Authentication can establish that an identity was permitted to access a resource.
It does not, by itself, prove that every later action, command or
prompt came from the authorized person's input.
That gap matters when an attacker uses a compromised identity, takes over an authenticated session, operates through legitimate tools, or causes an AI agent to act with inherited authority. It also matters when employees act in good faith, loading company information into LLMs, and allowing AI agent and chatbot actions where they should not be allowed.
Keystrike governs the interaction itself. It provides visibility into access, controls supported connections and actions, and creates compliance-ready evidence
connected to governed activity.
Mandiant reported that the median time from initial access to hand-off to a secondary threat group fell to 22 seconds in 2025.
Mandiant M-Trends 2026
IBM X-Force reported that abuse of user identities occurred in 30% of cases in its 2024 incident-response data.
IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2025
One platform across three operating scopes
The same person-binding verification runs across everything that acts on your systems. Deterministic, not probabilistic — either the action carries valid attestation,
or it doesn't proceed.
| See | Control | Prove | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote sessions | Live view of remote access from client-enabled endpoints and unknown or unmanaged clients across documented supported protocols. | Physical-input verification, tripwire alert, and real-time blocking on supported interactive protocols. | Evidence of governed sessions and enforcement on supported paths, and patent-pending attestations of commands through per-keystroke cryptographic signatures. |
| Agentic work | Approved framework includes visibility into relevant chatbot and AI-agent activity on endpoints, including unsanctioned “shadow AI” use. | Require Proven Intent for governed actions, commands or prompts where enforcement is enabled. | Non-repudiable cryptographic evidence connects unwarranted agent authorizations to the input prompt and approvals by the authorized person. |
| Third-party access | Visualize how third parties behave in your network – live. | Govern third-party access at keystroke level through agents, or manage third party access agentless by bounding the servers, identities, time interval, and even applications they may use. | Non-repudiable evidence logs of remote access, and signed per-keystroke evidence from client-enabled governed sessions. |
One control, applied in three places
Proven Intent is device-bound cryptographic evidence that a governed action traces to a specific authorized person. Keystrike sees vendor and MSP sessions live (including unmanaged clients), verifies the human behind them exactly as it does for internal sessions, and holds signed evidence of every governed session.
Vendor uses the Keystrike client
Full input verification applies — the same real-time, deterministic enforcement as any internal session.
Vendor can't install software
Agentless, time-boxed temporary access to designated machines or applications — governed without requiring their setup.
Product specs
Patent-pending cryptographic attestation of locally originated hardware input. A workstation agent recognizes keyboard and mouse activity and submits per-event signed attestations; a server-side terminator withholds input until proof of legitimacy arrives.
Deterministic, fail-closed. In CONTROL mode, input without valid attestation is not forwarded to the remote system. Administratively approved break-glass workflows may temporarily bypass enforcement where explicitly authorized.
Including sessions from unknown or unmanaged clients.
Non-interactive protocols (PowerShell Remoting, WinRM, PsExec/SMB, WMI) are brought under governance via a jump-host chokepoint rather than left unmanaged — SEE reaches wider than CONTROL, by design.
Device-bound cryptographic keys with TPM-backed storage.
Per-action signed attestations; tamper-evident evidence of governed sessions and of enforcement, login to logout; proof of network-segmentation fidelity.
Keystrike produces cryptographic, tamper-evident evidence of governed sessions and actions that organizations can compile into their compliance reporting, aligned to frameworks including NIST CSF and NIS2. This does not state or imply that Keystrike makes an organization compliant with any framework.
Agentless, time-boxed temporary access to designated machines or applications for vendors who can't install an agent.
For AI agents: see, control, and prove that every authorization request to MCP/A2A servers was intended by a prompt made by an authorized person. For interactive sessions (RDP, SSH): see, control, and prove that every command made to remote servers was intended by an authorized person.
Where it fits in the stack you already run
Keystrike complements and strengthens IAM, MFA, PAM, ZTNA, IGA, EDR, and SIEM — it owns a control point none of them do: whether each action after login was actually taken by an authorized person.
If you run PAM
A lighter path for privileged remote session control — when your need is controlling privileged actions, not full credential-lifecycle management.
PAM tools comparison →If you're building Zero Trust
The layer that extends trust past the connection to the action itself. ZTNA decides whether to allow access; Keystrike verifies who's really acting once inside.
If you run IGA
The enforcement that turns policy into behavior — after IGA authorizes access, Keystrike verifies the person behind each action and blocks what can't be attested.
How Keystrike completes
the security stack
| Tool | Gap for remote access | Keystrike fills | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAM | Credentials managed, not continuously verified |
CONTROL: Cryptographic attestation beyond credential checkout. SEE: Live map surfaces all access paths outside PAM scope. |
PAM controls the vault. Keystrike verifies who controls every command inside the session and maps every access path your PAM doesn't manage. |
| IGA / MFA | Lifecycle focus; slow to detect privilege abuse |
SEE: Live map detects misuse across active sessions. CONTROL: Attestation blocks unauthorized commands in real time. |
IGA manages entitlements. Keystrike shows when those entitlements are being misused live and stops the damage before it occurs. |
| SIEM | Log aggregation; delayed alerts on past events |
SEE: Live topology as a new data source. PROVE: Every action inside the session is verified and enforced. |
SIEM correlates events after the fact. Keystrike feeds it binary cryptographic signals and live topology data that make every alert more accurate. |
| ZTNA | Verifies access at connection; cannot see inside the session |
SEE: Maps lateral movement inside the trusted perimeter. CONTROL: Extends continuous verification to command execution. |
ZTNA controls the door. Keystrike verifies every action taken inside the room and maps everything ZTNA can't see. |
Frequently asked questions
The control of high-permission network access — admin RDP/SSH, vendor remote support, production access — covering not just who may connect, but what happens inside the session after they do. The second half is the gap in most stacks: Keystrike closes it by verifying a real, authorized person is behind every action and producing signed evidence of it.
PAM manages privileged credentials — vaulting, rotation, checkout, lifecycle. Keystrike governs privileged sessions: it verifies the person behind each action after login and blocks what can't be attested. They complement each other; when your need is session control rather than credential lifecycle, Keystrike is the lighter path.
In CONTROL mode it isn't forwarded — the unattested input is blocked in real time and written to the evidence trail. Enforcement is deterministic and fail-closed on supported interactive protocols, with administratively approved break-glass workflows where explicitly authorized.
Yes — Keystrike deploys alongside IAM, MFA, PAM, ZTNA, IGA, EDR, and SIEM. It adds a control point of its own — verifying the intent behind each action after access is granted. Keystrike can send alerts to other tools via webhooks.
The same way as human ones: by binding the action to an authorizing person. Agentless visibility into AI activity from managed endpoints is running with current clients today, included for every customer; surfacing shadow AI arrives with the Keystrike client, and agent enforcement and per-action agent evidence follow through the AI-agent early-access program, with current clients first in line.
Govern what
happens after access
Questions? connect@keystrike.com