{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-26/waratek-ai-phylax-launch","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-26/waratek-ai-phylax-launch.md","title":"Waratek Launches AI Phylax Runtime Guard for AI Agents","headline":"Waratek Unveils AI Phylax at Oracle AI World, POCs Set for January 2027","description":"Waratek launched AI Phylax at Oracle AI World, applying immutable-rule runtime protection to AI agents, with POCs available in January 2027.","section":"Product Launches","published_at":"2026-10-26T18:25:34+00:00","modified_at":"2026-10-26T18:25:34+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Waratek unveiled AI Phylax at Oracle AI World, a product that blocks attempts to alter an AI agent's operation at the point of execution.","Doug Ennis, Waratek Chair and CEO, said the agent does what it was built to do and nothing else, with any attempt to change that blocked in the runtime.","Waratek AI Phylax will be available for POCs in January 2027."],"companies":[{"name":"Waratek","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00071kv/waratek","website":"http://www.waratek.com"}],"source":{"publisher":"EIN Presswire","title":"Waratek Launches Waratek AI Phylax at Oracle AI World","url":"https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/951865113/waratek-launches-waratek-ai-phylax-at-oracle-ai-world"},"other_sources":[{"publisher":"Prtimes","url":"https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000013.000134403.html"},{"publisher":"Securitybrief","url":"https://securitybrief.in/story/acalvio-launches-shadowplex-ai-agent-in-gemini-marketplace"}],"tags":["Product Launches","Waratek"],"body_markdown":"[Waratek](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00071kv/waratek) unveiled Waratek AI Phylax at Oracle AI World, a product that applies immutable-rule runtime protection to AI agents and blocks attempts to alter their operation, the company said. The company said the product will be available for POCs in January 2027, according to [EIN Presswire](https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/951865113/waratek-launches-waratek-ai-phylax-at-oracle-ai-world).\n\n## How Waratek AI Phylax Blocks Agent Attacks\n\nWaratek AI Phylax stops any attempt to alter an agent's operation at the point of execution, regardless of how the attack is worded or where it came from, the company said. The product builds on Waratek's runtime expertise, where the same security rule produces the same outcome every time.\n\n\"Every organization deploying AI agents is asking the same question: how do we stop someone from taking control of them?\" said Doug Ennis, Waratek Chair and CEO. \"With Waratek AI Phylax, the answer is simple. The agent does what it was built to do, and nothing else. If anyone tries to change that, the attempt is blocked in the runtime before any compromise.\"\n\nAI agents are moving from pilots into production, where they have access to sensitive data and tools, read emails, query databases, call APIs and act on behalf of employees and customers, the company said. Attackers can hide instructions in a document, a web page or a tool response and trick the agent into doing something it was never meant to do, the company said. Prompt injection, tool hijacking and goal manipulation all share one aim: to alter the agent's operation, the company said.\n\n\"We have spent years proving that the runtime is the most reliable place to stop attacks,\" said Apostolos Giannakidis, CTO. \"AI agents behave in non-deterministic ways, but the security controls protecting them must be deterministic and precise. AI Phylax gives security teams the same certainty for AI assistants and autonomous agents that our customers already have for their mission-critical applications.\"\n\n## Waratek's Product Line and Partner Records\n\nAccording to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Waratek appointed Apostolos Giannakidis as Chief Technology Officer in June 2026, bringing prior experience as AppSec Vice President at JPMorgan Chase and Principal Product Security Engineer at Microsoft. The same records show Waratek launched Waratek IAST at the JavaOne 2026 conference in March 2026, introducing a Shift Left product line that integrates with the existing RASP platform, and packaged IAST and RASP into a combined Waratek IAST + RASP solution. Waratek works with authorized reseller partners who are permitted to resell the Licensed Software Agent and accompanying Documentation, the same records show.\n\n## VAST Data and Acalvio Agent Security Moves\n\nVAST Data announced VAST DataEnclave, a confidential AI runtime built on NVIDIA Confidential Computing, on September 22, 2026, with a preview starting that day and shipments planned in Q1 2027, [Prtimes](https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000013.000134403.html) reported. Acalvio Technologies launched its ShadowPlex AI Agent in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace, linking its deception security software with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise, [Securitybrief](https://securitybrief.in/story/acalvio-launches-shadowplex-ai-agent-in-gemini-marketplace) reported. The agent generates deception playbooks from natural-language security objectives, reducing the specialist knowledge needed for deployment, and targets AI-assisted attacks and protection of enterprise AI infrastructure, Securitybrief reported.\n\n## Waratek AI Phylax POC Availability\n\nWaratek AI Phylax will be available for POCs in January 2027, the company said. Waratek said it can be contacted for more information, and its website is at [www.waratek.com](http://www.waratek.com).\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}