AvePoint announces platform updates focused on AI data security and governance

AvePoint announced enhancements to its Confidence Platform aimed at transitioning businesses from AI visibility to active enforcement. These updates aim to address governance and security gaps associated with the rapid adoption of AI agents and complex multicloud data environments.

The company is focusing on recovering the Minimum Viable Company (MVC), an approach designed to help organisations maintain operations during disruptions by prioritising critical business functions rather than full data recovery.

AvePoint’s Rapid Recovery System, powered by Express Recovery, enables restoration of Microsoft 365 workloads along with key identities and infrastructure, supporting MVC restoration as a priority. By identifying and removing obsolete data, the system is designed to reduce outage durations and support continuity.

AvePoint has also expanded support for SaaS and cloud sources, including infrastructure backup options for Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB. Additional updates include Bitbucket protection and expanded support for platforms such as Okta Workforce Identity Cloud and Atlassian services.

As AI agent adoption increases, organisations require governance mechanisms to manage their use. AvePoint’s updates introduce controls intended to support secure and managed operation of AI agents.

The platform builds on the AgentPulse initiative, providing visibility into AI agent access and supporting the protection of sensitive data. Enhanced role-based access controls align with user permissions to support oversight of organisational data.

As cloud adoption continues, AvePoint provides tools within the Confidence Platform, Elements Edition, for partners to manage users, applications, and data infrastructure within a single system.

Features such as cross-tenant license visibility, workspace management, and security tools are intended to provide a consolidated view to support governance and management processes. Security enforcement across Microsoft Azure environments provides visibility into potential risks and vulnerabilities.

"According to research from Omdia, governance and compliance are the top AI challenges that organisations face today,” said Chris Shaw, Channel Director, AvePoint. “With these advancements to the AvePoint Confidence Platform, we’re giving partners and customers greater access to the tools that they need to meet these challenges head-on. It’s becoming more important to have an integrated, comprehensive approach to AI governance, cyber resilience, and data protection, and that’s exactly what the Confidence Platform offers.” 

The updates are designed to support automation and optimisation of partner operations, addressing operational challenges in the growing AI services market by enabling governance to be delivered as a scalable service model.