# Hilt

> Every company moves its most valuable data across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and AI agents on access it granted on purpose. Each move is permitted, so every tool you own correctly lets it through; the breach is the pattern across those moves, and no single layer watches the pattern. Hilt is the data movement governance platform that closes that gap: it watches data movement at runtime, metadata only, resolves each move to a real identity, and detects the anomalous move while it is happening.

## Start Here

- [Full site text](https://hilt.ai/llms-full.txt): The complete text of every public page in one document. Fetch this first to read the entire site in a single request.
- [Overview](https://hilt.ai/llms/overview.md): Category definition, primary buyers, and the core Hilt narrative.
- [Differentiation](https://hilt.ai/llms/differentiation.md): How Hilt differs from DLP, CASB/SSE, DDR, insider risk tooling, and posture-first platforms.
- [Deployment and Operations](https://hilt.ai/llms/deployment.md): Supported environments, telemetry layers, deployment risk in checkable numbers, and the operating model across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and AI agents.
- [Public Site Map](https://hilt.ai/llms/site-map.md): Canonical public pages and which page is best for which question.

## Core Pages

- [Data movement governance for the pattern your permissions never catch.](https://hilt.ai/?from=llms_txt): Category home for data movement governance: the universal blind spot where valuable data leaves on permitted access across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and AI agents, and how Hilt detects the anomalous pattern at runtime.
- [Compare Hilt against the categories buyers evaluate most often.](https://hilt.ai/compare?from=llms_txt): Category comparison hub for buyers evaluating Hilt against DLP, DDR, insider risk, and other adjacent approaches.
- [Hilt vs DLP: content rules versus runtime movement detection.](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-dlp?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt with traditional DLP. See where content inspection helps, where it misses behavioral exfiltration, and how runtime governance differs.
- [Hilt vs DDR: explanation-first versus containment-first.](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-ddr?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt with DDR to understand the tradeoff between lineage-based explanation and runtime containment for data exfiltration prevention.
- [Hilt vs insider risk: user scoring versus movement-aware containment.](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-insider-risk?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt with insider-risk and UEBA tools to see where user scoring helps, where it stops, and how runtime data movement detection and containment change response.
- [The platform that governs data movement, at the kernel.](https://hilt.ai/platform?from=llms_txt): Hilt is a data movement governance platform: kernel-level, observational, metadata-only. Collect at the kernel, resolve identity, detect exfiltration patterns, respond, single-tenant in your own cloud.
- [The Hilt content hub for alternatives, guides, and proof.](https://hilt.ai/blog?from=llms_txt): Competitor alternatives, data exfiltration prevention guides, and technical explainers from Hilt. Buyer education for runtime data security.
- [Answers to common Hilt deployment, performance, and privacy questions.](https://hilt.ai/faq?from=llms_txt): Answers to common questions about Hilt, including performance overhead, how Hilt detects anomalous data movement and isolates the host at the network, supported environments, deployment speed, shadow AI detection, and privacy.
- [Privacy Policy](https://hilt.ai/privacy?from=llms_txt): Read how Hilt handles public-site personal data, analytics, walkthrough requests, and privacy practices.
- [Terms and Conditions](https://hilt.ai/terms?from=llms_txt): Read the terms and conditions that govern the use of Hilt's public website and related public interactions.
- [There's a gap.](https://hilt.ai/why?from=llms_txt): EDR, your secure web gateway, insider risk, and a tuned SIEM cover the known plays. They share one structural blind spot: a chain of small, individually permitted movements across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and AI agents that no single tool owns. That is the gap Hilt fills.
- [A breached vendor uses the access you granted on purpose.](https://hilt.ai/exposure?from=llms_txt): A breached vendor moves your data on access you correctly granted, which is invisible to every permission, posture, DLP, SIEM, and UEBA tool by definition, so Hilt watches the deviation on the movement itself at the kernel, metadata only, resolved to the vendor identity and the job, single-tenant in your own cloud.
- [Prove your agent cannot exfiltrate the data.](https://hilt.ai/exfil?from=llms_txt): Hilt records what your AI agents, MCP servers, and non-human identities actually moved at runtime, kernel-level and identity-resolved in your own cloud, giving security teams an egress record that posture, prevention, and detection tools were not built to produce.
- [The only place a permitted theft is visible is the move itself.](https://hilt.ai/insider?from=llms_txt): Hilt catches insider and offboarding exfiltration by resolving each kernel-level data move to a real identity and the job behind it, surfacing the read-then-send pattern as it forms, writing the case, and isolating the host, metadata only and single-tenant in your own cloud, across cloud workloads and user endpoints.
- [The diagram you drew, or the record of what happened.](https://hilt.ai/compliance?from=llms_txt): Hilt generates continuous, identity-resolved, metadata-only evidence of how regulated data actually moves across your own cloud, the current record examiners and sponsor banks now ask for in place of a stale hand-drawn diagram.
- [Hilt vs CrowdStrike: How the Two Compare (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-crowdstrike?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike EDR stops malware, exploits, and ransomware and contains compromised endpoints. Hilt adds the data movement layer EDR does not watch. See where each fits and where they run together.
- [Hilt vs Cyberhaven: How the Two Compare (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-cyberhaven?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and Cyberhaven for data movement governance. See where Cyberhaven's lineage is strong, where Hilt adds a kernel-level layer, and where the two run together.
- [Hilt vs Cyera: How the Two Compare (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-cyera?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and Cyera for data movement governance. See how runtime telemetry at the kernel is additive to DSPM and posture-first data security.
- [Hilt vs DTEX: How the Two Compare for Insider Risk (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-dtex?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and DTEX for insider risk and data movement governance. See how a kernel-level movement layer is additive to user-behavior scoring.
- [Hilt vs Nightfall: How the Two Compare (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-nightfall?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and Nightfall for data movement governance. See how a kernel-level movement layer is additive to SaaS-first content inspection and cloud DLP.
- [Hilt vs Proofpoint: How the Two Compare (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-proofpoint?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and Proofpoint. Proofpoint secures the inbound email perimeter against phishing, BEC, and malicious attachments. Hilt governs outbound data movement at the kernel. See where each fits and where they run together.
- [Hilt vs Varonis: How the Two Compare (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-varonis?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and Varonis for data movement governance. See how a kernel-level runtime layer is additive to posture, permissions, and access governance.
- [Hilt vs Wiz: How the Two Compare (2026)](https://hilt.ai/compare/hilt-vs-wiz?from=llms_txt): Compare Hilt and Wiz. Wiz is the standard for cloud posture (CSPM): config, IAM, and vulnerabilities at rest. Hilt adds runtime data movement governance. See where each fits and where they run together.

## Key Articles

- [When a Misconfiguration Becomes a Permitted Exfiltration Path](https://hilt.ai/blog/cloud-misconfiguration-data-movement-abuse?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose. A misconfigured bucket or role turns wrong access into permitted access, and every move through it passes. How runtime governance catches the movement a posture scan only predicts.
- [The Staging Phase: Where Exfiltration Becomes Visible First](https://hilt.ai/blog/data-staging-before-exfiltration?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose. Exfiltration rarely happens in one move; data is gathered, compressed, and queued first. How runtime governance reads the staging pattern early, in time to act.
- [The Compromised Service Account That Moves Data All Day](https://hilt.ai/blog/compromised-service-account-data-movement?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose. A service account is built to move data constantly, so a compromised one hides in its own normal. How runtime governance learns its job and flags the move that does not fit.
- [Catching Ransomware's Exfiltration Before the Encryption](https://hilt.ai/blog/ransomware-pre-encryption-exfiltration?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose. Modern ransomware steals before it encrypts, moving data on access the foothold already holds. How runtime governance catches the exfiltration phase while it forms.
- [Insider Collusion: When Two Permitted Roles Add Up to a Breach](https://hilt.ai/blog/insider-collusion-data-movement?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose. Two insiders, each acting within their access, can combine into a breach no single role review would flag. How runtime governance sees the pattern across both identities.
- [Lateral Movement: The Quiet Staging Before Exfiltration](https://hilt.ai/blog/lateral-movement-data-staging?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose. Before data leaves, it is staged, and each hop uses access that exists for a reason. How runtime governance reads the staging pattern as one case, not scattered alerts.
- [Supply-Chain Compromise and the Data That Walks Out](https://hilt.ai/blog/supply-chain-data-exfiltration?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose. A compromised dependency runs with the access of the process that imported it, so its data moves are permitted. How runtime governance catches supply-chain exfiltration.
- [CSPM Limits: Why Posture Management Misses Data Movement](https://hilt.ai/blog/cloud-security-posture-management-limits?from=llms_txt): Your most valuable data leaves on access you granted on purpose, and cloud security posture management cannot see it. CSPM finds misconfigurations; it misses the dangerous pattern across permitted data movement at runtime.