Market landscapes / AI Safety, Security & Governance
Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance companies
Finding the AI tools employees are already using without telling anyone, and governing what staff may put into them. Every company of any size has this problem. 5 of the 29 have been acquired, which suggests the answer tends to end up inside a security product somebody already owns.
Updated 12 October 2026
29 companies
5 acquired
16 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 32AI Security Posture & Threat Detection 24AI Data Privacy & Confidential Computing 21
I am Ben Jackson. I map this market and I hire the commercial teams inside it: sales, marketing, product and delivery. If you are building a team in Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance, here is how I work. The whole market in numbers.