# Zenity

> Zenity is a cybersecurity company that builds an end-to-end security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents. Founded in 2021 by Ben Kliger and Michael Bargury, it gives enterprises visibility and control over what AI agents - from Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce to home-grown builds on AWS Bedrock - can access, do, and invoke. Zenity covers the full agent lifecycle with discovery, posture management, real-time threat detection, and response across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint environments, closing the blind spots that traditional model-focused security tools miss.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Tel Aviv, Israel (with an office in New York, USA)
- **Founders:** Ben Kliger (Co-Founder & CEO), Michael Bargury (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 95-200 employees
- **Products:** Zenity Observe, Zenity Govern, Zenity Defend (AIDR), Zenity Issues, Zenity Labs
- **Notable:** Named a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM), Recognized in a 2026 Gartner report as the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents ('company to beat'), Zenity Labs disclosed 'AgentFlayer' zero-click exploit chains at Black Hat USA 2025 affecting ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Salesforce Einstein and others, prompting vendor patches

## Products & services

- **Zenity Observe** — Agent discovery and inventory that provides real-time visibility into every AI agent, its configuration, ownership, and runtime behavior across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint - surfacing shadow AI.
- **Zenity Govern** — AI security posture management that applies secure-by-design guardrails before deployment, including least-privilege access controls and policy enforcement mapped to frameworks like OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.
- **Zenity Defend (AIDR)** — AI Detection and Response that monitors agents at runtime, analyzing step-level execution to catch malicious behavior, prompt injection, tool misuse, and anomalies - and to respond.
- **Zenity Issues** — An incident correlation engine that connects posture gaps, runtime anomalies, and behavioral intent into clear, investigable findings for security teams.
- **Zenity Labs** — Zenity's security research team, known for offensive research on agentic AI including the AgentFlayer zero-click exploit chains disclosed at Black Hat USA 2025.

## Achievements

- Named a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM)
- Recognized in a 2026 Gartner report as the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents ('company to beat')
- Zenity Labs disclosed 'AgentFlayer' zero-click exploit chains at Black Hat USA 2025 affecting ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Salesforce Einstein and others, prompting vendor patches
- Raised $38M Series B in October 2024, bringing total funding to roughly $59.5M
- Reported over 3x year-over-year growth

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Zenity announced availability on AWS Marketplace, extending end-to-end security to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and other enterprise AI agents.
- **2025-09** — Named a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI TRiSM.
- **2025-08** — Zenity Labs revealed 'AgentFlayer' zero-click exploit chains at Black Hat USA 2025, demonstrating silent hijacking of major enterprise AI agents.
- **2024-10** — Closed a $38M Series B co-led by Third Point Ventures and DTCP.

## Links

- Website: https://zenity.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zenitysec
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zenitysec
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@zenitysec
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zenitysec/

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Last updated: 2026-07-17