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Porthos Labs researches the boundaries where software can meaningfully improve how people and organisations work, create, decide and operate. From intelligent systems and automation to data infrastructure, human-computer interaction and emerging technologies, our research exists to turn promising ideas into useful, durable products.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Published research.

AI Agent Security visual showing enterprise data and tools passing through controlled access and action permission boundaries around an autonomous AI system.

What Is AI Agent Security?

Learn what AI agent security means, why autonomous agents introduce new enterprise risks, and how organisations can control permissions, data access, tools and actions.

AGENT SECURITY · September 2026
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Shadow AI visual contrasting governed enterprise AI inside a controlled boundary with unmanaged AI tools operating outside organisational oversight.

What Is Shadow AI?

Learn what shadow AI is, why unmanaged AI tools and agents create enterprise security risks, and how organisations can discover, assess and control AI use across their environment.

AI GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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Enterprise AI Governance visual showing organisational data, people, applications, tools, policies and infrastructure governed through central AI controls and oversight.

What Is Enterprise AI Governance?

Learn what enterprise AI governance means, how organisations can define accountability, policies and controls for AI systems, and how governance connects with security, risk and oversight.

AI GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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AI Control Plane visual showing users, AI agents, applications, data sources, APIs and external models governed through central policy, access, observability, cost and compliance controls.

What Is an AI Control Plane?

Learn what an AI control plane is, how it can provide visibility, policy, permissions and enforcement across enterprise AI systems, and why autonomous agents make centralised control increasingly important.

AI SYSTEMS · September 2026
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Data Governance visual showing enterprise data, policy, security, analytics and cloud systems connected around a governed global data environment.

What Is Data Governance?

Learn what data governance is, how organisations manage ownership, access, quality, security and policy across enterprise data, and why effective governance requires visibility and control.

DATA GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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Data Access Governance visual showing enterprise systems and identities connected through a transparent governance control layer.

What Is Data Access Governance?

Learn what data access governance is, how organisations understand and control who and what can access enterprise data, and why permissions, context, policy and real-time visibility matter.

DATA GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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Real-Time Data Governance visual showing live data streams passing through transparent governance controls for discovery, policy evaluation and protection.

What Is Real-Time Data Governance?

Learn what real-time data governance means, why organisations need visibility and control closer to the moment data is used, and how dynamic policy, monitoring and enforcement can strengthen enterprise data governance.

DATA GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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Data Governance Framework: a practical structure for enterprises, visualised as layered people, policy, process, data and trust controls.

Data Governance Framework: A Practical Structure for Enterprises

A practical enterprise data governance framework covering discovery, classification, ownership, access, policy, retention, control and audit.

DATA GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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Data governance platform visual showing enterprise data sources flowing through transparent governance controls for policy, standards, processes, responsibilities and monitoring.

How to Choose a Data Governance Platform

A practical buyer's guide to evaluating data governance software for discovery, classification, access intelligence, policy, control and audit.

DATA GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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AI Data Governance visual showing an AI system connected to enterprise controls for data quality, lineage, risk, compliance and access.

AI Data Governance: Governing Enterprise Data in the Age of AI

Learn how AI systems change enterprise data access, why AI should be governed as an actor within the wider data model, and which controls matter.

DATA GOVERNANCE · September 2026
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