New AI Command Center Helps Track AI Agents and Control Costs
- By John K. Waters
- 12/10/25
Data protection platform AvePoint has launched a command center to help organizations monitor artificial intelligence agents, addressing security risks and rising expenses as organizations deploy more automated AI tools.
The AgentPulse Command Center serves as a centralized registry that enables organizations to track which AI agents are operating across their systems, who is using them, and what data they can access. The tool is part of AvePoint's Confidence Platform, which manages data security and governance for collaboration software.
"As organizations rapidly deploy AI agents to drive productivity, they're discovering that these powerful tools introduce significant security and data governance challenges that legacy IT controls weren't designed to address," said Jeremy Thake, chief architect at AvePoint, in a statement.
The Jersey City, NJ-based company cited research showing 75% of organizations using AI experienced a data breach in the past year. Gartner has predicted that 40% of agentic AI projects could be abandoned by late 2027 due to inadequate risk controls.
AgentPulse allows administrators to identify instances where AI agents have excessive access to files and make corrections within the platform. The system also tracks high-activity agents that generate frequent interactions or access large amounts of data, helping organizations identify sources of unexpected costs.
"Without dedicated oversight, organizations can quickly find themselves with unexpected charges from high-activity AI agents, storage costs from redundant or obsolete data accessed by AI agents, and the potentially catastrophic expense of a data breach," said John Peluso, chief technology officer at AvePoint.
The tool supports multiple AI agent types, including Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, Copilot Studio, and SharePoint agents. It follows an October update to the Confidence Platform that added compliance enforcement features for AI agents.
About the Author
John K. Waters is the editor in chief of a number of Converge360.com sites, with a focus on high-end development, AI and future tech. He's been writing about cutting-edge technologies and culture of Silicon Valley for more than two decades, and he's written more than a dozen books. He also co-scripted the documentary film Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance, which aired on PBS. He can be reached at [email protected].