AvePoint Boosts AI Agent Governance & Cloud Backup
AvePoint has expanded its Confidence Platform with new features aimed at governing agentic AI while enhancing data protection across a broader range of cloud services.
Agent Governance
The latest update introduces a novel framework for customers to define risk related to AI agents. As agentic AI tools increasingly access corporate data and perform tasks autonomously, organizations face critical questions regarding how to assess behavior, enforce controls, and respond to policy violations.
The Confidence Platform enables customers to set their own risk posture and monitor agents against established rules. It also offers detailed insights into an agent’s security posture and allows users to address security issues directly from the platform’s console.
These enhancements build on capabilities introduced through the AvePoint AgentPulse Command Centre, representing a move toward tighter oversight of agent interactions with data and systems. According to MIT researchers, 95% of agentic AI projects fail primarily due to data quality concerns. This emphasizes the importance of consistent controls over information access, retention, and recovery.
AvePoint’s approach integrates monitoring with the defined risk model, enabling customers to remediate agent-related risks as they arise.
Chief Product Officer John Hodges remarked, “AvePoint continues to build new, innovative products to drive world-class data security and governance for AI and agentic AI, as exemplified by our AgentPulse launch last November.” He emphasized that these updates provide customers the necessary tools to safely and efficiently utilize agentic AI resources.
Wider Coverage
In addition to enhancing agent governance, AvePoint has also broadened its support for multi-SaaS backup. Newly supported sources now include Okta, Confluence, Jira, DocuSign, Monday.com, GitHub, and Smartsheet. These applications generate critical identity data, collaboration content, development artifacts, and workflow records.
AvePoint has introduced support for new infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service sources, including Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft SQL Server, and Azure VMware. Data from these sources is now integrated into the Data Resiliency Command Centre, providing a consolidated view of coverage and risk.
This expansion reflects a broader shift in data protection strategies among cloud-first companies, where workloads span multiple platforms like Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce. Vendors are responding by offering broader connectors, centralized policy management, and reporting that aligns data sources with risk and compliance requirements.
Chief Technology Officer John Peluso stated, “Today’s data protection and governance challenges aren’t limited to a single platform or cloud environment.” He underscored AvePoint’s commitment to providing enhanced protection and governance support across various cloud environments.
Backup Strategy
This announcement is part of AvePoint’s ongoing efforts to establish a “unified and extensible foundation” for safeguarding information. The company highlighted its role as a launch partner for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage and noted its Cloud Backup Express product designed for backup and recovery.
Backup performance is a crucial competitive factor in cloud data protection, especially for collaboration suites facing lengthy recovery windows. Organizations are weighing cost and complexity when deciding which systems require rapid recovery and which can tolerate longer restoration times.
AvePoint allows customers to “right-size” their protection strategies, offering faster coverage for specific sources. The company plans to discuss these updates in an upcoming webinar, with additional platform enhancements anticipated as agentic AI adoption continues to grow across business functions.
