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AI security companies

We list 92 companies active in AI and LLM security, and 38 of them have it as their main focus. 1 is public, 8 are owned by another company and 83 are private. Most are based in the United States (62). The oldest, MarkAny, was founded in 1999. By revenue from annual reports, the largest company here is Palo Alto Networks ($11.5bn in FY2026).

By countryUnited States 62Israel 8United Kingdom 8

Companies focused on AI and LLM security

38 companies
CompanyBased inFoundedSizeOwnershipRevenue
Acium

Acium provides an AI security and governance platform that makes AI usage visible, secure, and governed across users, browsers, agents, and devices.

Miami, United States2024Private
Agentic Fabriq

Agentic Fabriq sells a control layer for AI agents.

San Francisco, United States2025Private
AIUC

Sets standards, audits and insures frontier AI systems and agents for security, safety and reliability.

San Francisco, United StatesPrivate
altaniche

altaniche is a security practice that helps organisations adopt AI safely.

Melbourne, Australia2024Private
Arcjet

Arcjet provides runtime security for AI agents, enforcing policies at the action boundary.

San Francisco, United States2023Private
Capsule Security

Capsule Security provides a runtime security platform that monitors and intervenes in AI agent behavior.

Tel Aviv, IsraelPrivate
Enoki Labs

Enoki Labs makes Enoki, a platform that attacks AI agents to find security and safety weaknesses.

Ghent, Belgium2026Private
Fendr

Fendr provides AI usage controls for businesses.

London, United Kingdom2025Private
Ferentin

Ferentin provides runtime governance for AI agents.

San Ramon, United States2025Private
Harmonic Security

Harmonic Security provides software that discovers, classifies and controls how employees use AI tools at work.

San Francisco, United States2023Private
HiddenLayer

HiddenLayer provides a security platform for AI applications, protecting against adversarial threats.

Austin, United States2022Private
Lakera

Lakera provides security software that protects enterprise AI applications from prompt attacks and data leakage.

Zurich, Switzerland2021Part of Check Point
Lasso Security

Lasso Security provides a platform to secure AI agents and applications at enterprise scale.

Tel Aviv, Israel2023Private
Noma Security

Noma Security provides a platform to discover, govern, test, and protect AI applications and agents.

New York, United States2023Private
Opaque Systems

Provides a trust layer that lets organisations run AI on sensitive data with hardware-enforced governance and verifiable proof.

San Francisco, United StatesOwned by Anthropic
OpenOrigins

OpenOrigins provides trust infrastructure for the AI internet.

San Francisco, United States2021Private
Outerlimit

Outerlimit provides a security and authorization layer for agentic AI systems.

London, United KingdomPrivate
Pillar Security

Pillar Security provides a platform to discover, test, secure and govern AI agents across organisations.

Tel Aviv, Israel2023Private
Prompt Security

Prompt Security provides an AI security platform that protects enterprise AI usage, applications, and agents.

Tel Aviv, Israel2023Part of SentinelOne
ranwhat

Open-source command-line tool that reads AI coding agent transcripts to find credential leaks and irreversible actions.

Zagreb, Croatia2026Private
Reality Defender

Reality Defender provides deepfake detection to stop AI-generated media from causing harm.

New York City, United States2021Private
Reco

Reco provides an AI agent security platform that maps, governs, and protects AI agents across enterprise applications.

Altamonte Springs, United StatesPrivate
Sealgate

SealGate provides a security gateway that governs how AI agents access company data.

London, United Kingdom2025Private
Tragentics

Tragentics is a security and operations layer for AI agents that customers already run on their own infrastructure.

United States2026Private
Trent AI

Provides an AI security engineer that finds and fixes software risks using coding agents.

London, United Kingdom2025Private
VeriSwarm

VeriSwarm provides a trust layer for AI agents.

Phoenix, United States2026Private
Virtue AI

Virtue AI provides an enterprise AI safety platform for securing AI agents and applications.

San Francisco, United StatesPart of Fortinet
Zenity

Zenity provides security and governance for AI agents and low-code applications.

Tel Aviv, Israel2021Private
Akto

Akto provides a platform to secure AI agents, MCPs, and LLMs for enterprises.

San Francisco, United StatesPrivate
BlueRock Security

BlueRock provides observability and guardrails for AI agents in production.

San Mateo, United States2017Private
Cantina

Cantina provides an agentic security platform that uses autonomous AI agents to detect, respond to, and fix security issues.

Miami, United StatesPrivate
GetReal Security

GetReal Security provides deepfake detection and identity verification software for enterprises.

Austin, United States2022Private
Mountain Theory

Mountain Theory provides an execution-layer security system that checks and controls autonomous AI actions before they run.

Denver, United States2024Private
Quint Security

Quint monitors AI agents at the operating system level and compares their actions against what they declared.

United States2026Private
securagen.ai

Builds cryptographic validation, information intelligence, regulatory assurance and sovereign AI products for defence and government.

Athens, Greece2025Private
Straiker

Straiker provides security teams with tools to discover, test, and defend AI agents in enterprises.

Mountain View, United States2025Private
TrustGate AI

Self-hosted gateway that inspects and governs AI agent traffic inside a company's own network.

United States2026Private
Vireo Sentinel

Vireo Sentinel provides browser-based AI governance to monitor and protect sensitive data.

Perth, Australia2025Private

Also active in AI and LLM security

54 companies
CompanyBased inFoundedSizeOwnershipRevenue
Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks provides cybersecurity platforms and services to protect organizations from cyber threats.

Santa Clara, United States200513,900 staffPublic, PANW$11.5bn (FY2026)
Bishop Fox

Tempe, Arizona-headquartered offensive security firm and Black Hat / DEF CON regulars, makers of the Cosmos continuous attack surface management platform.

Tempe, United States2005201-500 staffPrivate
Tines

Tines provides a secure environment where teams can build AI agents, applications and automations.

Dublin, Ireland2018200 staffPrivate
Lares Consulting

Denver-based offensive security boutique with a community-first red team culture. Home of PTES co-authors and the Continuous Red Team retainer.

Denver, United States200851-200 staffOwned by Damovo
Redbot Security

Denver-based boutique pen testing firm with senior-only testers. Personalised engagements across penetration testing, red teaming, and vulnerability management.

Denver, United States201611-50 staffPrivate
Stingrai

Toronto-based PTaaS provider delivering continuous penetration testing for Canadian fintech, SaaS, and OSFI-regulated organisations.

Toronto, Canada201911-50 staffPrivate
AppOmni

AppOmni provides a platform to secure SaaS applications and AI environments for enterprises.

San Mateo, United States2018Private
Atredis Partners

Employee-owned research firm testing embedded systems, including vehicle infotainment, telematics units and CAN networks.

United StatesPrivate
Auxilium Cyber Security

Ettlingen consultancy pentesting vehicles, ADAS, gateways, infotainment and on-board chargers, plus R155 CSMS consulting.

Ettlingen, Germany2015Private
BigID

BigID provides a data intelligence platform for discovering, classifying, and governing enterprise data and AI.

New York City, Israel2016Private
Breach Secure Now

Provides cybersecurity awareness, AI readiness, and compliance training to employees through managed service providers.

Morristown, United StatesPrivate
CAI Technology

CAI Technology is a Romanian company that builds specialised AI tools for regulated sectors.

Bucharest, Romania2024Private
Cequence Security

Cequence Security protects applications, APIs, and AI agents from attacks and abuse.

Santa Clara, United States2014Private
Copper Horse

UK security consultancy doing threat modelling, training and research for connected vehicles, IoT and mobile products.

Monmouth, United Kingdom2011Private
Cyberhaven

Cyberhaven provides a data security platform that traces data lineage to protect information across human and AI workflows.

Austin, United StatesPrivate
CyberSentien

CyberSentien provides a compliance assurance engine that assesses organisations against multiple security and AI governance frameworks.

Australia2025Private
Cyera

Cyera provides a data security platform that discovers and protects sensitive data across cloud environments.

New York, United States2021Private
Cymphony

Cymphony provides an AI-native workforce security platform that maps identities, data, and permissions to reduce risk.

Tel Aviv, IsraelPrivate
Darwinium

Darwinium provides edge-based intent intelligence to prevent digital fraud and abuse across customer journeys.

San Francisco, United StatesPrivate
DataBahn

DataBahn provides an agentic data control plane for managing and optimizing enterprise telemetry.

Dallas, United States2023Private
Diopter AI

Diopter AI sells software that watches live video and voice calls for signs of AI-driven social engineering.

Oakbrook Terrace, United States2026Private
Drata

Drata provides a platform that automates security compliance, risk management and trust assurance for companies.

San Francisco, United States2020Private
Edge Delta

Telemetry pipelines that route, enrich and transform security and observability data to SIEMs and other destinations, plus AI agents for site reliability work.

Seattle, United StatesPrivate
Endor Labs

Endor Labs provides an agentic application security platform for AI-generated and open source code.

Palo Alto, United States2021Private
Harness

Harness provides an AI-native software delivery platform for DevOps, testing, security, and cost optimization.

San Francisco, United States2017Private
Immersive Labs

Immersive Labs sells a platform called Immersive One that helps organisations show how ready they are for cyber threats.

Bristol, United Kingdom2017Private
KnowBe4

KnowBe4 provides a platform for security awareness training and AI agent security to reduce human risk.

Clearwater, United StatesOwned by Vista Equity Partners
Legit Security

Legit Security provides application security for AI-generated code and software development.

Boston, United StatesPrivate
Mend.io

Mend.io provides application security and AI security software for code and AI systems.

Burlington, United States2011Private
Netarx

Netarx provides real-time deepfake detection across video, voice, email and messaging for businesses.

Farmington Hills, United StatesPrivate
Obsidian Security

Obsidian Security provides security for third-party applications and AI agents.

Palo Alto, United StatesPrivate
OmniTrust

Provides a platform for managing cryptographic trust across devices, systems and AI.

Ashburn, United States2010Private
Optro

Audit, risk and compliance software, formerly AuditBoard, with controls management, cyber risk management, third-party risk, regulatory compliance and AI governance products.

United StatesPrivate
Paravision

Paravision builds identity AI software.

United StatesPrivate
Pindrop

Pindrop provides deepfake detection and identity verification for voice and video interactions.

Atlanta, United States2011Private
Private.Me

Private.Me provides identity infrastructure for AI agents and machine-to-machine systems.

Los Angeles, United States2014Private
Salt Security

Salt Security provides a platform to discover and secure AI agents, MCP servers, and APIs.

Palo Alto, United States2018Private
Saviynt

Saviynt provides identity governance and security for human and non-human identities across applications and data.

El Segundo, United States2010Private
Securiti

Securiti provides a platform for data security, privacy, governance and compliance across hybrid multicloud environments.

San Jose, United States2018Part of Veeam
Sentra

Sentra provides data security solutions to discover and protect sensitive data from AI applications.

New York, United StatesPrivate
Sevii

Sevii provides an autonomous defense and remediation platform that stops cyber adversaries without human intervention.

Mooresville, United StatesPrivate
Siemba

Siemba provides autonomous and expert-led penetration testing for security teams.

Alpharetta, United StatesPrivate
Soken

Soken is a Web3 services firm based in London.

London, United Kingdom2023Private
SonarSource

Sonar provides a platform that verifies code quality and security for developers.

Geneva, Switzerland2008Private
Sysdig

Sysdig provides cloud security built on the open-source Falco project, with an emphasis on runtime detection inside running workloads.

United States2013Private
Upwind Security

Upwind provides a runtime-powered cloud security platform that uses live workload behaviour to prioritise posture findings.

IsraelPrivate
Wiz

Wiz provides a cloud and AI security platform that connects code, cloud, and runtime for risk reduction and threat response.

New York City, United States2020Part of Google
42Crunch

42Crunch provides security governance for MCP servers and APIs used by AI agents.

London, United KingdomPrivate
Ansvar Systems AB

Ansvar Systems AB provides evidence and validation infrastructure for AI agents in regulated work.

Fränsta, Sweden2025Private
Fortanix

Provides a data and AI security platform built on confidential computing to protect data in use.

Santa Clara, United StatesPrivate
MarkAny

MarkAny develops document security, forgery prevention, content protection, and AI video surveillance software.

Seoul, South Korea1999Private
OneTrust

Third-party management and tech risk and compliance software, alongside privacy automation, consent management and AI governance tools.

Atlanta, United StatesPrivate
TigerByte Cyber

TigerByte Cyber provides cyber hardening for AI and edge devices in mission-critical environments.

Hanover, United StatesPrivate
Wallarm

Wallarm provides an AI security and API security platform for enterprises running AI on AWS.

Austin, United StatesPrivate

Recent deals in AI and LLM security

All AI and LLM security deals
DateDealAmountSource
October 2026Anthropic acquired Opaque SystemsSource for Anthropic buying Opaque Systems, opens in a new tabUndisclosedSource for Anthropic buying Opaque Systems, opens in a new tab
1 Sept 2026Palo Alto Networks acquired ConsoleSource for Palo Alto Networks buying Console, opens in a new tabUndisclosedSource for Palo Alto Networks buying Console, opens in a new tab
18 Aug 2026Fortinet acquired Virtue AISource for Fortinet buying Virtue AI, opens in a new tabUndisclosedSource for Fortinet buying Virtue AI, opens in a new tab
July 2026Cyera acquired Oasis SecuritySource for Cyera buying Oasis Security, opens in a new tab$1bnSource for Cyera buying Oasis Security, opens in a new tab
May 2026Cyera acquired Genie SecuritySource for Cyera buying Genie Security, opens in a new tab$50mSource for Cyera buying Genie Security, opens in a new tab
April 2026Cyera acquired RyftSource for Cyera buying Ryft, opens in a new tabUndisclosedSource for Cyera buying Ryft, opens in a new tab
February 2026Endor Labs acquired Autonomous PlaneSource for Endor Labs buying Autonomous Plane, opens in a new tabUndisclosedSource for Endor Labs buying Autonomous Plane, opens in a new tab
September 2025Harness acquired Qwiet AISource for Harness buying Qwiet AI, opens in a new tabUndisclosedSource for Harness buying Qwiet AI, opens in a new tab
September 2025Check Point acquired LakeraSource for Check Point buying Lakera, opens in a new tabUndisclosedSource for Check Point buying Lakera, opens in a new tab
August 2025SentinelOne acquired Prompt SecuritySource for SentinelOne buying Prompt Security, opens in a new tab$250mSource for SentinelOne buying Prompt Security, opens in a new tab

Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.

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