Status: Done

VentureBeat covered five startups fixing the gaps in enterprise agent infrastructure - orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security - as shown at VB Transform 2026, and Arcade’s section leads with the problem I keep coming back to: agents hit three major snags - authorization, governance, and reliability.

The points I made on stage:

  • To act on behalf of real users with real permissions, agents need a new type of security architecture. Arcade’s secure agent runtime provides that authentication and authorization layer so agents can actually pass critical security reviews.
  • Auditability is built in - every action is attributable to the exact moment in time, with the least amount of privileged scopes.
  • Arcade ships as an installable plugin that can run on-prem in a clean-room-like environment, gated by the RBACs, IDPS, policies, and entitlements an enterprise already has - keep your own sign-in and security tools.
  • Supply chain attacks have “gotten so rampant; it’s unbelievable” - and security and observability have stayed hard because, largely, the abstraction has been wrong.

Read the full piece on VentureBeat.

For more about Arcade check out the website at https://www.arcade.dev/ and the GitHub https://github.com/arcadeai/