8200.dev vs. Aryon vs. Orion

An honest comparison of the two halves of data security — and the third surface neither covers.

Capability	8200.dev	Aryon	Orion
Posture management (preventive)	✓	✓	✗
Data-loss prevention (contextual)	✓	✗	✓
AI-agent governance	Native	✗	Exploring
Explainability	Every block	Partial	Black-box
Self-serve	✓	Sales-led	Sales-led
Agentless deployment	✓	Partial	Endpoint agent

Based on public materials, June 2026. If a vendor ships a capability we marked missing, tell us and we will fix the table.

Posture tools stop at the door

Aryon represents the preventive-posture school: find over-broad permissions and misconfigurations and block them before exposure. That half matters — most breaches start with a door opened too wide. But posture tools have no opinion about the data itself. Once access is legitimate, anything can walk out.

DLP tools start at the data

Orion represents the contextual-DLP school: classify data with AI and stop risky flows. That half matters too — insiders and compromised accounts move data through doors that are technically allowed. But DLP tools don't fix the misconfiguration that made the breach possible, and most still require endpoint agents and a sales process to even start.

Nobody governs the agents

AI agents are the fastest-growing access surface in the enterprise: they hold OAuth grants, read mailboxes, query CRMs, and write to production systems. A posture tool sees the grant but not the behavior. A DLP tool sees a flow but not the agent's intent or its instruction chain. Agent Guard is built for exactly this surface — inventory, policy, and a full audit trail for every agent action.

Why hybrid wins

A breach is one chain: a door opened too wide, data moving through it, increasingly with an AI agent in the loop. Defending one link at a time means buying two products, two consoles, and still leaving the agent link bare. 8200.dev defends the chain in one platform — explainable at every step, self-serve from the first minute, agentless by architecture.

Honesty notes

This table is based on each vendor's public materials as of June 2026. Capabilities evolve; if we're out of date, we'll correct it.
Aryon and Orion are strong products in their halves. Our claim is not that they are bad — it's that the halves belong together, plus the agent surface neither covers.
Agent Guard ships in phases. The current scope is documented precisely in the docs — we don't claim coverage we haven't shipped.

What we deliberately don't do

Focus is a feature. 8200.dev is the deepest permission- and AI-agent-governance tool in its category — and we stay in that lane on purpose:

Not a WAF or network-security product — we don't sit in your traffic path.
Not a code or vulnerability scanner — we govern access to your data, not your source code.
Not a pentest or offensive-security tool — 8200.dev contains no exploitation capability of any kind.

Every hour we don't spend chasing those surfaces is an hour spent being the best in the world at governing permissions and AI agents.

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