For security, risk, and ML platform teams

Shortlist the AI governance, security, and observability vendors built for enterprise teams.

Curated shortlists and buyer checklists across AI governance platforms, runtime security, observability, and privacy tooling — aligned to EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001 programs.

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15vendors covered
EU AI Act · NIST · ISO 42001framework aligned
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Each category aligns with the team that typically leads the evaluation — security, risk and legal, ML platform, or privacy.

Risk, legal, compliance, CTO

AI Governance Platforms

Platforms for AI inventory, policy mapping, model approval workflows, control evidence, and audit readiness.

5 vendors
CISO, security engineering, platform security

AI Security & Runtime Controls

Vendors focused on prompt injection defense, model scanning, runtime guardrails, LLM app security, and AI-specific attack surfaces.

4 vendors
ML platform, MLOps, applied AI teams

AI Observability & Evaluation

Monitoring, testing, tracing, and evaluation tooling for model quality, safety, drift, and production behavior.

4 vendors
Privacy counsel, data governance, security

AI Privacy & Data Compliance

Vendors centered on PII detection, privacy-preserving AI workflows, sensitive data controls, and broader data governance obligations.

2 vendors

Featured Vendors

Platforms frequently shortlisted by enterprise evaluators.

AI Governance Platforms

Credo AI

Enterprise AI governance platform for inventory, risk controls, policy automation, and audit-ready evidence.

Best for: Large regulated enterprises building cross-functional governance programs. Deployment: Enterprise SaaS
  • AI inventory
  • risk workflows
  • policy mapping
  • third-party AI
AI Governance Platforms

Holistic AI

Governance, risk, and compliance platform with an emphasis on AI assurance and policy operationalization.

Best for: Organizations formalizing AI assurance and governance together. Deployment: Enterprise SaaS
  • AI assurance
  • risk management
  • policy controls
  • board reporting
AI Governance Platforms

FairNow

AI governance and compliance tooling designed to plug into existing model, risk, and process infrastructure.

Best for: Mid-market and enterprise teams extending existing risk programs to AI. Deployment: Enterprise SaaS
  • compliance automation
  • workflow integration
  • risk controls
  • AI policy
AI Security & Runtime Controls

Lakera

Security tooling for protecting LLM applications against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and unsafe interactions.

Best for: Teams shipping external or employee-facing LLM applications. Deployment: API and security platform
  • prompt security
  • runtime protection
  • jailbreak defense
  • LLM apps
AI Security & Runtime Controls

Protect AI

AI security company focused on securing models, pipelines, registries, and the broader ML supply chain.

Best for: Security-conscious ML platforms and enterprises with internal model pipelines. Deployment: Platform and security tooling
  • ML supply chain
  • model scanning
  • registry security
  • platform security
AI Observability & Evaluation

Fiddler AI

Observability platform for monitoring model performance, explainability, quality, and AI system behavior in production.

Best for: Production AI teams that need monitoring plus governance evidence. Deployment: Enterprise SaaS
  • monitoring
  • explainability
  • production AI
  • quality controls
AI Observability & Evaluation

Patronus AI

Evaluation and testing platform for LLM outputs, safety, reliability, and application quality.

Best for: LLM product teams standardizing evaluations and release gates. Deployment: SaaS platform
  • LLM evaluation
  • testing
  • safety checks
  • release gates
AI Privacy & Data Compliance

Private AI

Privacy-focused tooling for detecting and redacting PII in text and data flowing through AI systems.

Best for: Organizations trying to unlock AI use while reducing PII exposure. Deployment: API, cloud, and deployable options
  • PII redaction
  • data minimization
  • privacy controls
  • prompt hygiene
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