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The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Governance and Auditability
By Kieron Allen · April 15, 2026
NIST RFI Comment: Security Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Agents
Docket NIST-2025-0035 · February 2026
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Founder
Dave Medeiros, Founder & CEO, Panoptic Systems, Inc.
Dave Medeiros founded Panoptic Systems, Inc. because AI agents were taking actions in production with nothing between the agent and the consequences. After more than a decade building at the boundaries between systems, he recognized the pattern: governance fails when it shares a trust boundary with the thing it governs. Panopticore puts the governance layer outside the agent, at the network boundary, in its own trust domain.
Dave Medeiros founded Panoptic Systems, Inc. because AI agents were taking actions in production with nothing between the agent and the consequences: no external enforcement, no tamper-evident record, and no way to show an auditor what happened or why it was allowed. After more than a decade building at the boundaries between systems, he had seen the pattern before: when the thing being governed and the thing doing the governing share a trust boundary, governance fails. Panopticore puts the governance layer outside the agent, at the network boundary, in its own trust domain.
Company descriptions
Panopticore is deterministic, infrastructure-level governance for AI agents with audit-grade evidence that any third party can verify offline.
Panoptic Systems, Inc. builds Panopticore, the missing layer in enterprise AI: deterministic, infrastructure-level governance for autonomous agent workflows. Panopticore operates at the network layer in a separate trust boundary from the agent, enforcing policy deterministically and producing self-contained, cryptographically signed Evidence Binders that internal auditors, third parties, and insurers can verify offline. Founded by Dave Medeiros and based in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Delaware C-Corp.
Pull quotes
From Cloud Wars
“This technology is unblocking agents that are stuck in limbo.”
Kieron Allen, Cloud Wars
“Panopticore delivers the controls and evidence that compliance teams, auditors, and often insurers need before agents can move from pilot to production.”
Kieron Allen, Cloud Wars
“Every decision is recorded in a cryptographically signed audit trail that can be verified offline by any internal auditor or third party.”
Kieron Allen, Cloud Wars
“deterministic infrastructure-level governance that provided audit-grade evidence”
Kieron Allen, Cloud Wars
From the NIST submission
“Many current agent governance approaches are implemented as middleware within the agent's own runtime. This means a sufficiently capable agent, a compromised dependency, or a malicious actor with access to the agent's process can bypass governance entirely.”
Comment of Panoptic Systems, NIST RFI on AI Agent Security, February 2026
“The most consequential security gap in deployed AI agent systems today is not prompt injection, model manipulation, or adversarial attacks on the model itself. It is the absence of a verifiable, tamper-evident record of what an agent actually did at runtime.”
Comment of Panoptic Systems, NIST RFI on AI Agent Security, February 2026
“An agent may receive a well-formed, policy-compliant prompt, generate a reasonable response, and then execute a tool call that deletes production data, transfers funds, or exfiltrates sensitive information.”
Comment of Panoptic Systems, NIST RFI on AI Agent Security, February 2026
“The degree of architectural separation between the agent and its governance layer is the single most important indicator of governance effectiveness.”
Comment of Panoptic Systems, NIST RFI on AI Agent Security, February 2026
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Panoptic Systems, Inc. builds Panopticore, deterministic infrastructure-level governance for AI agents. Panopticore operates at the network layer in a separate trust boundary, enforcing policy and producing cryptographically signed Evidence Binders that any third party can verify offline without vendor access. The company is pre-seed, building design partner relationships with security-mature teams running autonomous workflows. For more information, visit panopticsystems.ai.