Ethyca launches Astralis to govern enterprise AI agents in real time
Data privacy engineering company Ethyca Inc. today launched Astralis, a platform that governs how enterprise artificial intelligence models and agents use company data in real time.
The company is pitching the product as an answer to a widening gap between how fast enterprises are deploying AI agents and how well their compliance teams can keep track of them. Ethyca counts The New York Times Co., Ramp Business Corp. and Condé Nast parent Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. among the companies it works with.
Governance has quietly become one of the main brakes on enterprise AI. As autonomous systems multiply inside large organizations, regulators are more often asking why a given system reached a given dataset and many companies have no answer. By Ethyca’s account, that gap is why AI projects stall out before they reach production. Gartner Inc. has forecast the average global Fortune 500 company will be running more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, from fewer than 15 only last year.
Astralis works through two parts. Its Large Language Regulatory Model automates privacy and AI assessments, work the company said previously ran 40 to 60 hours per assessment and now takes 20 to 40 minutes. The second piece, a Purpose-Based Access Control engine, screens data requests as they arrive. It ties each grant to the reason behind the request so data gets used only for the purpose it was approved for.
