Exabeam Confronts AI Insider Threats Extending Behavior Detection and Response to OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot
- Apr 01, 2026
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Applies behavior profiling and analytics to the digital workforce, giving security teams full visibility into how users and AI agents interact across the enterprise
BROOMFIELD, Colo. — April 1, 2026 – Exabeam, the leader in behavior intelligence for the agentic enterprise, today announced a major expansion of Exabeam Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA). Without direct visibility into how employees are using AI assistants — what they query, what data they share, how frequently they interact, and from where — organizations cannot baseline normal AI behavior, investigate possible misuse, or detect emerging agentic insider threats.
New support to detect agent behavior in OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, alongside existing visibility into Google Gemini, transforms these agentic services into rich sources of behavior telemetry that feed directly into Exabeam threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) workflows.
“AI agents are evolving from simple chatbots into autonomous digital workers,” said Steve Wilson, Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam. “They authenticate, access systems, and execute real business processes. When compromised, their activity will often look legitimate. Guardrails designed to catch prompt injection or hallucinations do not address that risk. Securing digital workers requires deep visibility into baseline behavior and the ability to detect subtle deviations before they become material incidents.”
“AI is rapidly reshaping how organizations operate, compete and grow, creating a new, digital workforce that helps them move faster and at scale,” said Pete Harteveld, CEO at Exabeam. “As this transformation accelerates leaders are compelled to understand how these systems operate inside the enterprise. Our expansion of Agent Behavior Analytics helps organizations stay protected from emerging risks while adopting AI with confidence and maintaining the oversight and accountability required to proliferate these capabilities across an enterprise.”
To address these fast-evolving threats, Exabeam has delivered five new capabilities that work together to provide complete coverage of the agentic attack surface:
- AI Behavior Baselining. Exabeam builds dynamic behavior profiles for users and their AI agents, tracking patterns across request volumes, token usage, tool invocations, web sessions, and outbound activity. When behavior deviates from established norms, such as sudden spikes in API calls or token consumption. Exabeam flags the anomaly, helping security teams detect misuse before it escalates.
- Prompt and Model Abuse Detection. Exabeam detects prompt injection, model manipulation, and tool exploitation before attacks escalate. A new detection library, five times larger than the previous version, covers the full threat spectrum: prompt manipulation, and shadow AI activity. All surfaced at the point of entry, not after the damage is done.
- Identity and Privilege Monitoring. While baselining tracks how agents behave, identity and privilege monitoring governs what they’re allowed to do. Exabeam detects anomalies across AI platform roles, users, and permissions — including first-time role assignments, unexpected privilege escalations, and unusual permission changes, ensuring AI identities are governed with the same rigor as traditional enterprise identities.
- Agent Lifecycle Monitoring. Exabeam provides full visibility into the creation, modification, and usage of AI agents, surfacing first-agent-creation and invocation events as discrete, auditable signals. Security teams can now track the complete lifecycle of every agent operating in their environment, closing the governance gap that has made agent activity invisible to most organizations.
- Coverage for OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI. Exabeam monitors agent behavior against the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI, bringing measurable coverage to a threat category that previously lacked a defined framework. This alignment establishes a benchmark for governing and defending AI agents in the enterprise.
“As we move deeper into the agentic era, the rapid adoption of AI agents — including a growing ecosystem of enterprise-grade AI tools across our organization — is transforming the risk landscape,” said Nithin Reddy, Global VP of Cybersecurity at Dayforce. “Security teams now operate in a world where both humans and autonomous agents interact with systems and data at a massive scale. Traditional detection models weren’t built for this reality. What we need is clear behavior visibility and a simple way to quantify risk. Exabeam gives us that clarity — helping us focus on the risks that actually matter instead of chasing thousands of benign signals and enabling us to put the right guardrails in place while continuing to accelerate AI innovation across the business.”
These new capabilities are accompanied by a broad set of enhancements across the Exabeam New-Scale and LogRhythm Platforms, designed to improve the day-to-day experience for administrators and security analysts while continuing to deliver deep visibility and automated response that helps teams streamline workflows, reduce alert fatigue, and accelerate threat detection.
To learn more, visit www.exabeam.com/whats-new
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.
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