Market landscapes / AI Safety, Security & Governance
AI Security Posture & Threat Detection companies
Monitoring AI systems for attack and misuse. Posture management across models and pipelines, and detection of threats aimed at them specifically: Hiddenlayer, Cranium, Mindgard and others. 3 of the 24 have been acquired.
Updated 12 October 2026
24 companies
3 acquired
12 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) 68AI Red Teaming & Security Testing 39Agent Identity & Access Control 32Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance 29AI Data Privacy & Confidential Computing 21
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