External Release Notes: AI Assistant (October 21, 2026)
New Features and Enhancements
Egnyte AI Control Center
The new AI Control Center surfaces agents that interact with content in a less secure manner, such as having an overly broad scope or reaching sensitive content, and lets admins fix them all in one place. Each agent with an open issue gets a High, Medium, or Low risk level and a reason, such as Unrestricted access, Access to sensitive content, or a Tool set to run without asking first. The list is filtered to agents that need attention and sorted by risk, and you can open any agent to see the details.
Each issue comes with a recommended action admins can perform such as re-scoping the agent to selected folders, creating an AI Safeguard policy for the content it reaches, or changing tool permissions to always ask.
This feature is available to customers on the Ultimate plan. Contact the account manager or Egnyte Sales team for more information.
Model List Upgrade
Egnyte now supports Sonnet 5.5 (default), GPT 6.1, and Gemini 3.8 Flash models, providing users with greater flexibility to choose the AI model that best suits their requirements.
AI Safeguards Policy Audit Report
Admins can now see a record of changes made to AI Safeguards policies. The new Policy Settings report, found under Reports > Audit > AI Safeguards, logs when a policy is Created, Modified, Deleted, or Reordered, including who made the change and when. For modified policies, the report also shows the old and new criteria. Admins can filter the report by Date range, Policy, User, and Action.
This gives compliance and security teams an audit trail of AI access control changes and helps admins investigate unexpected policy changes.
Additional Information and Resources
The current release contains a few improvements to existing functionality.
- Minor UI Improvements
- Minor performance, security, and stability improvements
- Minor bug fixes
These changes will be available to all users by October 21, 2026.