Or rather the new new vendors. :-) Of the 415 vendors that are categorized in the Dashboard as “AI Security” 325 were founded in 2022 or after. The rest were able to pivot after November 30, 2022, to use GenAI in their tools.
November 30, 2022, of course, is when ChatGPT ignited the GenAI era.
In the front matter of Guardians of the Machine Age: Why AI Security Will Define the Future of Digital Defense I promised to update the data on the AI Security players here on Substack. Before I do so I want to be completely transparent about what we are striving for at IT-Harvest.
We are a next-gen industry analyst firm. That means data-driven, AI-powered. You can discern our manifesto in Of Long Tails and Stalking Horses. I may have been too subtle in that post. Gartner, by its own admission only serves 12,000 or so customers out of a total addressable market of 140,000. That’s less that 1%. While we do have overlap with Gartner’s clients we also have an affordable alternative for the remaining 99.4%.
IT-Harvest sells data on the entire cybersecurity industry. That’s what I am here for. All of the data and research posted here on Substack or Linkedin; all of my research, and yes, the six editions of Security Yearbook and now Guardians, was created to demonstrate the value of applied data for cybersecurity industry research.
Each post, each infographic, and each book is meant to spark the question: How can IT-Harvest produce this research and give it away for free? The whole point is that we can do that because it is easy and you could too if you were a Dashboard subscriber.
The other point is that we only expose a tiny fraction of the data we collect on 4,022 vendors and all of their products. Relying on my posts to get a picture of the cybersecurity industry is akin to owning just the Ser-Soosy volume of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Guardians of the Machine Age was written to demonstrate what a complete market scope report looks like. With our platform we (you) can easily generate such a report for any category/topic you like. Maybe a compilation of all 321 vendors with SIEM products? Or the 70 vendors that produce HSMs?
New AI Security vendors added since the publication of Guardians.
As mentioned there are 37 new AI Security vendors added to our database since the publication of Guardians of the Machine Age on March 11. In the next several Substack posts I will provide summaries of each one. Today we start with the following five. Listed alphabetically to make it easy to incorporate into Appendix IV in Guardians.
Above Security recently raised $50 million in funding to enhance its AI-native platform designed for managing insider threats. The investment was led by Ballistic Ventures, Merlin Ventures, and Norwest, with the company aiming to scale its operations and expand its market reach. Don’t forget that, while insiders pose a real and present danger, an outside attacker seeks to gain the same privileges as an insider.
Adversa operates a red teaming platform designed for continuous adversarial testing of agentic AI systems, generative AI applications, and AI models. The platform simulates adversarial behavior in real time to discover exploitable vulnerabilities, including zero-day weaknesses in agent interactions, AI reasoning, coordination, and autonomy before they become breaches. The company provides capabilities for investigating, reproducing, and prioritizing remediation efforts for discovered AI vulnerabilities.
Aether AI presents itself as an AI-driven offensive security platform that continuously tests an organization’s attack surface across internal and external vectors. The product is positioned as an alternative or complement to vulnerability scanners and traditional red-team engagements, with emphasis on automated, persistent testing. It cites performance claims including finding more vulnerabilities than human pentesters, faster execution than traditional red teams, lower cost than manual testing, and faster detection-rule generation than SOC analysts.
AI Score is an enterprise AI governance and risk management platform focused on visibility, oversight, and control across an organization’s AI usage. The product connects data, tools, and teams to identify where AI is creating value, creating risk, or operating outside policy.
They aim to provide real-time risk detection, compliance monitoring, performance insight, and centralized governance rather than model development or deployment tooling. The company highlights enterprise deployment and security features including single-tenant architecture, broad integrations, SAML SSO, role-based access controls, and options for on-premise or private deployments.
AISOC is an AI-assisted security operations platform that ingests and contextualizes SIEM alerts to help security and IT teams investigate incidents more efficiently. The company positions the product around alert triage, anomaly detection, case creation, and dashboard-based visibility into incidents, suppressions, notifications, and processing times.
If I continue to post new vendors at the rate of five at a time I may never catch up. So the next post will have ten vendors.
These posts will mean a lot more if you have your copy of Guardians of the Machine Age handy. Get it here.
If you are already a subscriber to the IT-Harvest Dashboard you can visit each of these vendors’ pages at the links below.
Above Security
https://dashboard.it-harvest.com/vendor_details/28874
Adversa
https://dashboard.it-harvest.com/vendor_details/26648
Aether AI
https://dashboard.it-harvest.com/vendor_details/28876
AI Score
https://dashboard.it-harvest.com/vendor_details/28819
AISOC