Detecting OpenClaw at Sign-In

If like most organizations you are still coming to grips with the implications of what personal AI assistants like OpenClaw mean for your security posture, you might need to at least identify where they are being used.

Turns out Okta Verify can do that for you. Advanced posture checks is an early access feature in the Okta Verify client that gives administrators the ability to write custom rules that evaluate device hygiene at sign-in.

Administrators can write simple osquery checks that evaluate, for example:

• Persistant services and installed apps

• Currently running processes

• The presence of configuration files and binaries in common installation paths.

• Installs of Homebrew or npm packages

• Listening ports

• Docker images and artifacts

There are multiple ways you can apply this to something like OpenClaw, and lots of good reasons to do it.

A personal AI assistant doesn’t need to be malicious or vulnerable for you to want to wrap some policy around its use on corporate-issued devices.

For a list of sample queries relevant to OpenClaw, head over to the Okta Threat Intelligence blog: https://www.okta.com/blog/threat-intelligence/detecting-openclaw-advanced-posture-checks/