Welcome to the wild world of citizen development.
Security and governance for everything your citizen developers build.
Teams now ship apps, automations and agents on Power Platform, Salesforce, ServiceNow and UiPath.
Kanopy gives you back visibility and control over all of it.
What is citizen development?
Citizen development is what happens when business users, not professional developers, build the apps, automations and AI agents their teams run on. It happens inside approved low-code and no-code platforms, it moves fast, and it rarely sees a security review.
Much of it is shadow IT in disguise: a sanctioned platform, an unreviewed build. Nobody did anything wrong. The jungle just grew faster than the map.
Your enterprise is growing more than anyone realized
10K+
Apps in the average enterprise environment
50+
New AI agents
added daily
20%
No-code apps
exposed externally
What’s growing in your citizen developer jungle, and the risks behind it
Shadow assets
Apps, flows and agents no one inventoried, owned by people who have since changed teams or left the company.
Excess permissions
Edit access where view would do. A connection to the whole site where one list would do.
Data leakage
Connectors and flows that carry enterprise data to personal accounts, external services and public links. Data leaving through apps that were approved.
Injection attacks
A form field, an email or a record read as instructions, then carried out with the app’s permissions.
Malicious integrations
Third-party connectors, components and plugins that nobody vetted, wired straight into business data.
Policy gaps
Standards that stop at traditional code. Credentials pasted into a flow, with no owner, no review and no expiry.
How Kanopy Security protects
what your business users build
Visibility
Kanopy discovers every app, automation and agent across your low-code and no-code platforms, with owners, connections and data access mapped, so security teams see what’s actually growing.
Governance, risk detection and prioritization
Kanopy analyzes each risk: sensitive data access, excessive privileges, third-party components, insecure configurations. Builders get clear, role-based guidance and one-click remediation. Security teams get the details.
Auto-remediation, shifted left
One-click fixes and guidance tailored to each builder, so risks get fixed where they start.
Why Kanopy
Agentless
No endpoints. Nothing to install. Live from day one.
Build-time to runtime
Security across the whole life of every agent, skill and app.
Auto-remediation, shifted left
Risks are fixed at the source before they ship, not flagged for someone to chase.
One control plane
Every agent, app and automation, across every platform, in one place.
Pick your platform
Every platform grows its own kind of jungle. Each page covers what business users build there, and how Kanopy secures it.
Power Platform
Apps, flows and connectors built in Power Apps and Power Automate.
Copilot Studio
Agents and copilots built by business users, and everything they connect to.
Salesforce
Flows, apps and agents built by admins and business teams in your org.
UiPath
Robots and workflows, and the credentials and data they touch.
ServiceNow
Workflows, apps and agents built on the Now Platform.
Retool
Internal tools built on top of your databases and APIs.
Trusted by Fortune 500 companies
“Our security architects started seeing more and more no-code solutions. We already have a strong traditional AppSec program. But LCNC was clearly a gap in our knowledge.”
“We needed a way to implement security and governance controls to safeguard and ensure the success of our large-scale automation initiative.”
“Kanopy solves the exact problem I was looking to solve, securely enabling citizen developers.”
FAQs
What is citizen developer security?
It’s the discipline of discovering, governing and protecting the apps, automations and agents that business users build on low-code and no-code platforms, from the moment they’re built to the moment they run. It’s also called citizen development security or low-code security.
Why does citizen development need its own security?
Traditional application security is built for code that professional developers write and ship through a pipeline. Citizen-built apps, automations and agents skip that pipeline: they’re created inside low-code and no-code platforms, connect straight to business data and go live without a security review.
How does Kanopy find shadow assets?
Kanopy connects to each low-code and no-code platform through its APIs, with nothing to install, and inventories every app, flow, automation and agent, including the ones no one registered. Each asset is mapped to its owner, its connections and the data it can reach.
Which platforms does Kanopy cover?
Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Salesforce, UiPath, ServiceNow and Retool, as well as the agents built in enterprise AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
Does security slow down citizen developers?
No. Kanopy is agentless and works in the background. Builders get clear, role-based guidance and quick-fix actions, so risks get fixed at the source without blocking what they ship.
How does this relate to AI workforce security?
Citizen developer security covers what business users build on low-code and no-code platforms. AI workforce security covers every agent, skill and MCP server in your enterprise, whoever built it. Kanopy secures both from one platform.
Who is behind Kanopy Security?
Kanopy Security was founded by the co-founders of Imperva and SecuredTouch (acquired by Ping Identity). The platform is SOC 2 Type II certified and trusted by Fortune 500 companies in insurance, financial services and healthcare.
