Klein explained that automation tools themselves leave distinct fingerprints. Platforms like n8n, Make, and Zapier exhibit recognizable workflow signatures, which Reco uses to detect and map how these automations interact across systems. “An AI agent accessing 500 Salesforce records per minute looks different from a human user,” he said. Additionally, for native agents like Microsoft Copilot or Salesforce Agentforce, Reco claims to monitor feature enablement, data access patterns, and cross-application activity that traditional SSPM tools categorize as “normal user behavior.”
The offering is positioned around real-world patterns observed by Reco, which include shadow automation with excessive permissions, misconfigured enterprise agents, and even credential exposure in AI workflows. In observed incidents, this ranged from agents with full read/write access to customer PII in Salesforce, financial data in NetSuite, source code in GitHub, to an unnamed agent exfiltrating customer data to a personal Airtable account for 8 months before discovery.
Aiming where traditional SSPM falls short
Reco positions the launch as a break from traditional SSPM, arguing that those tools were never designed for autonomous systems.
