Market landscapes / AI Safety, Security & Governance
AI Red Teaming & Security Testing companies
Attacking an AI system deliberately, to find what it will do wrong before a customer does. Of everything in this theme it is closest to traditional penetration testing, so it sells into a security budget that already exists rather than one that has to be created first. 39 companies, 21 of them hiring.
Updated 12 October 2026
39 companies
7 acquired
21 hiring now
The rest of the AI Safety, Security & Governance landscape
The full map, including the sub-sectors too small to list separately.
The whole AI Safety, Security & Governance mapAI Runtime Security & Guardrails 74AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) 68Agent Identity & Access Control 32Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance 29AI Security Posture & Threat Detection 24AI Data Privacy & Confidential Computing 21
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