Tigera has launched Lynx, a unified control plane for Kubernetes-native AI agents, extending its Calico open-source security expertise to help enterprises secure, govern, and audit AI agent activity without code changes.
Tigera, the inventor and maintainer of Calico Open Source, has announced the general availability of Lynx, a unified control plane designed to secure and govern Kubernetes-native AI agents.
Built to address the unique security challenges posed by autonomous AI agents, Lynx provides enterprises with a single platform to discover, authenticate, authorise, govern, audit, and monitor AI agents without requiring any modifications to agent code. The platform sits in the path of every agent-to-agent, agent-to-tool, and agent-to-LLM interaction, enforcing authentication, authorisation, mediation, and auditing controls before actions are executed.
AI agents differ significantly from traditional workloads because they operate autonomously, access tools and large language models, interact with other agents, and process untrusted inputs. According to Tigera, these characteristics create security and governance challenges that conventional enterprise security tools were not designed to address.
Lynx is built on open standards rather than proprietary frameworks, integrating with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and OpenTelemetry. Its capabilities span agent discovery and observability, posture management, identity and authentication, policy enforcement, and anomalous behaviour detection. The platform uses eBPF-powered discovery, cryptographic identities, default-deny policies enforced through the Cedar policy language, and kernel-level monitoring via eBPF and Linux Security Modules to detect threats such as credential theft and lateral movement.
“For over a decade, Tigera’s Calico platform has served Global 2000 companies running the largest Kubernetes platforms in the world, securing tens of millions of mission-critical transactions every day. AI agents are the next class of workloads: autonomous, distributed, and increasingly embedded in critical business processes. Lynx brings that same unified control and security rigor to AI agents,” said Ratan Tipirneni, CEO of Tigera.
Lynx is available immediately and is already deployed in production environments at major global banks.
