An AI agent can sound perfectly sensible while doing something ruinously foolish. Palo Alto Networks is turning that awkward fact into a security business, with Protect AI’s model expertise and a gateway built to police the action.
Companies rushed to install copilots, models and agents. Cranium built a business around the awkward question that followed: who knows where all of them are - and can anyone prove they are safe?
Enkrypt AI is a Boston-based AI security company that builds a control layer between enterprises and the large language models and AI agents they deploy. Founded in 2022 by Yale PhDs Sahil Agarwal and Prashanth Harshangi, its Sentry platform combines automated red teaming, runtime guardrails, and compliance monitoring to detect vulnerabilities like prompt injection, jailbreaks, bias, and data leakage before and after models reach production. The company also publishes a free LLM Safety Leaderboard and widely cited red-team research, including a January 2025 report finding DeepSeek-R1 far more likely than rivals to produce harmful content.