Exabeam has launched Praxen, an open source tool for Agent Behavior Verification, a new security discipline that evaluates whether AI agents are properly configured and authorised before deployment. The company announced the release as organisations increasingly deploy AI agents as operational actors within enterprise environments. Praxen uses policy contracts called ABV remits to verify whether an agent's implementation, tools and configurations align with its specified role. The tool provides actionable recommendations and maturity scores for agents' security posture, addressing gaps between intended and implemented behaviour. Released under the Apache 2.0 licence, Praxen is designed as an agentic coding agent skill. Exabeam is making it open source to establish Agent Behavior Verification as an industry best practice, complementing its broader agent security strategy.

Exabeam launches open source Praxen to bring Agent Behavior Verification to AI agents and digital workers. * Jun 23, 2026 * 3 minutes to read Open source tool helps organizations understand an AI agent's intended job, verify its authorized actions, and identify behavioral gaps before deployment. BROOMFIELD, Colo. - June 23, 2026 - Exabeam, the leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise, today announced Agent Behavior Verification (ABV), a new security discipline that helps organizations determine whether AI agents are configured, authorized, and governed in ways that align with their intended responsibilities before deployment. As AI agents move from assistants to operational actors inside enterprise environments, organizations face a new security challenge. Agents access systems, invoke tools, execute workflows, and make decisions with increasing autonomy. While existing approaches such as vulnerability scanning and red teaming help govern, monitor, and test agent activity during runtime, organizations lack a practical way to determine whether an agent is prepared to operate safely before it enters production. Agent Behavior Verification addresses that gap. Rather than focusing solely on known vulnerabilities or individual code artifacts, ABV evaluates agents as complete systems, providing a framework for defining an agent's authorized role and evaluating whether its implementation, permissions, and controls align with its purpose. To help organizations operationalize the discipline, Exabeam is releasing Praxen, an open source reference implementation of ABV. "Organizations are rapidly moving from AI experimentation to operational deployment," said Steve Wilson, Chief AI Officer at Exabeam and Founder and Co-Chair of the OWASP Gen AI Security Project. "As agents become digital workers, security teams need more than runtime visibility. They need confidence that agents have the right permissions, the right controls, and the right boundaries before they enter production. Agent Behavior Verification helps answer a fundamental question: will this agent do its job, and only its job?" Praxen operationalizes Agent Behavior Verification. Praxen uses the ABV remit - a policy contract that defines what an agent is authorized to do, what resources it may access, and what boundaries it must operate within - to help developers and operators verify whether the agent's implementation, tools, configurations, memory, integrations, and operating environment align with its specified role. By identifying and reporting on gaps between intended and implemented behavior, Praxen provides actionable recommendations and highlights behavioral risk for developers ahead of deployment. Reports include specific findings, recommendations for improvement, and an overall maturity score for the agent's security posture. "Traditional security tools help identify vulnerabilities in software," continued Wilson. "Praxen evaluates something different: whether an agent's capabilities, permissions, tools, and controls align with the role it was authorized to perform. This addresses one of the most critical risks introduced by highly autonomous agents and establishes a stronger foundation for ongoing governance throughout the agent lifecycle." Agent Behavior Verification represents the pre-deployment foundation of Exabeam's broader agent security strategy, complementing ABA, which helps organizations identify anomalous or risky agent behavior in production environments. Built as an agentic coding agent skill and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Praxen is designed to be transparent, extensible, and accessible to developers, researchers, and security practitioners. "Most security tools tell you what's vulnerable. Praxen asked a different question entirely: Does this agent's actual behavior match the governance or work remit it was built to enforce?" said Sherri Douville, CEO of Medigram. "The code-level remediation path it produced didn't give us a risk report to file away. It gave us a precise engineering roadmap we could act on immediately. In enterprise AI deployment, the gap between what an agent is authorized to do and what it is actually capable of doing is where operational risk lives." Driving transparency and trust in autonomous AI systems. Exabeam is releasing Praxen as an open source project to help foster and enable ABV as an open best practice. The industry is still defining how AI agents should be governed, monitored, and verified. Open sourcing Praxen allows developers, researchers, and security practitioners to examine the framework, contribute enhancements, and apply ABV principles within their own environments. Praxen is available now under the Apache 2.0 license here: https://open-agent-ai-security.github.io/praxen/ About Exabeam Exabeam is the leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise. As organizations deploy digital workers and confront machine-speed adversaries, Exabeam applies agent-powered analytics to understand and govern the behavior of both human and non-human insiders. With integrated Exabeam Nova cybersecurity agents, Exabeam delivers flexible, industry-proven solutions for insider threat coverage of humans and agents and faster, more accurate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). As the pioneer of user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and the innovator behind Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA), Exabeam is trusted by more than 3,000 enterprises worldwide to reduce risk, secure the digital workforce, and accelerate security operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com. Exabeam: Stop Insider Threats. Human or AI. Recent press releases. 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NEC Australia and Exabeam strengthen strategic partnership to secure the Agentic Enterprise. * Jun 18, 2026 * 2 minutes to read Broomfield, Colorado, and Melbourne, Australia, June 16, 2026 - NEC Australia and Exabeam today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to help organisations across Australia strengthen security operations and reduce insider risk in increasingly automated environments. Through this partnership, NEC Australia will work with Exabeam to deliver behaviour-based security analytics that help organisations detect threats faster, reduce investigation effort, and improve visibility across complex hybrid and cloud-native environments. "Australian organisations are embracing AI, automation and increasingly complex digital operating environments, creating new opportunities but also new security challenges," said Hanré van Rensburg, Head of Service Strategy, NEC Australia. "As organisations move towards the agentic enterprise, security teams require greater visibility into both human and non-human activity across their environments. Its strengthened partnership with Exabeam enhances NEC Australia's managed security services capability, enabling Exabeam to help customers detect threats earlier, reduce investigation effort and improve security outcomes through advanced behavioural analytics and AI-assisted security operations." NEC Australia utilises Exabeam technology within its own security operations environment and brings deep expertise supporting large, distributed organisations across Australia. As organisations expand the use of AI-driven workflows, service accounts and autonomous systems, NEC Australia is strengthening its security services to address the challenges of the Agentic Enterprise - where human users and non-human actors operate at machine speed. By deepening its engagement with Exabeam, NEC Australia can help customers establish behavioural baselines, identify anomalous activity and reduce risk across users, entities and agents. "NEC Australia has a strong track record of delivering trusted technology and security services across some of the most complex environments in the region," said Sean Abbott, Director of Channel and Alliances - APJ at Exabeam. "This partnership brings Behavior Intelligence to the centre of security operations. By applying User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA), NEC Australia can help customers surface high-risk activity earlier, cut through alert noise, and focus security teams on the threats that matter." Exabeam's Behavior Intelligence detects insider threats, compromised credentials and advanced attacks that traditional rule-based approaches often miss. With UEBA and ABA, Exabeam establishes behavioural context across human users and the digital workforce, helping organisations identify and respond to threats with speed, clarity and confidence. Integrated AI-powered security agents also automate critical parts of the threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) workflow, enriching data, correlating activity across environments and automatically assembling evidence-backed timelines that dramatically reduce investigation time. Through its partnership with Exabeam, NEC Australia helps organisations modernise security operations and strengthen their ability to defend against threats that move at machine speed. About Exabeam Exabeam is the leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise. As organizations deploy digital workers and confront machine-speed adversaries, Exabeam applies agent-powered analytics to understand and govern the behavior of both human and non-human insiders. With integrated Exabeam Nova cybersecurity agents, Exabeam delivers flexible, industry-proven solutions for insider threat coverage of humans and agents and faster, more accurate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). As the pioneer of user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and the innovator behind Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA), Exabeam is trusted by more than 3,000 enterprises worldwide to reduce risk, secure the digital workforce, and accelerate security operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com. Exabeam: Stop Insider Threats. Human or AI. Recent press releases. Learn about the Exabeam platform and expand your knowledge of information security with its collection of white papers, podcasts, webinars, and more. * Blog Why Insider Threats Don't Trigger Alerts Read Now * Data Sheet Behavior Intelligence for the Agentic Enterprise Read Now * Blog Beyond the Budget: What CISOs Need to Understand About Their CFO Relationship Read Now * Guide Six Shifts in Insider Risk for the Agentic Enterprise Read Now * Show More