AI Security Tools 2026
AI Security covers the tools that protect machine learning systems, large language models, and AI applications across their full lifecycle, from training data and model weights to the agents and prompts running in production. It is what you reach for once your organization ships AI features and has to answer the questions a board and a regulator will ask: who can reach the model, what can it be tricked into doing, and where did its data come from. The space breaks into distinct problems. Agentic AI Security and LLM Guardrails handle runtime behavior, prompt injection, and output filtering. AI Red Teaming and AI Data Poisoning Protection stress-test and defend the model itself. AI SPM, AI Model Security, and MLSecOps deliver inventory, posture, and pipeline controls. AI Governance ties all of it to policy and compliance. Most CISOs assemble coverage from several of these rather than one platform, because no single tool credibly does all eight.
We cover 387 AI Security tools, 19 free and 368 commercial.
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AI gateway security audit skill for inspecting and auditing AI traffic.
Security platform for behavioral visibility and control over autonomous AI agents.
Mobile-native platform for discovering, monitoring, and governing AI app usage.
Agentic AI control platform for SecOps to govern autonomous AI tools at runtime.
Runtime security platform for AI agents covering detection, protection, and validation.
Detects & governs unauthorized AI tool usage by employees via browser agent.
Scans AI models for malicious code, vulnerabilities, and unsafe artifacts pre-deployment.
Tracing, analytics, and observability platform for LLM pipelines and GenAI apps.
AI guardrail platform detecting harmful outputs, prompt injections & policy violations.
Runtime control plane that mediates & governs AI agent actions before execution.
AI-native offensive framework with 64 tools for testing AI attack surfaces.
AI agent kill switch with 6-level graduated response and 7-layer termination.
Runtime security platform for AI agents with discovery, observability, and enforcement.
Zero-trust security & governance platform for autonomous agentic AI systems.
AI security platform protecting agentic AI systems from runtime exploits.
Agentic AI security platform with continuous scan, analyze, remediate & evaluate loop.
Pre-launch security platform targeting agentic AI enterprise environments.
Runtime security platform for monitoring AI agents on enterprise endpoints.
Runtime platform to discover, monitor, and control AI agents in production apps.
Security scanner that analyzes OpenClaw AI agent skills for malicious behavior.
CLI scanner that detects security threats in AI agent skills before installation.
AI Security Specializations
387 tools across 8 specializations · 19 free, 368 commercial
Agentic AI Security
Security tools for protecting AI agents, MCP servers, multi-agent systems, and autonomous AI workflows.
AI Red Teaming
AI red teaming and security testing tools for adversarial testing of AI models, LLMs, and GenAI applications.
LLM Guardrails
Runtime guardrails and firewalls for protecting LLM applications from prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and harmful outputs.
How to choose AI Security tools
- Map the tool to a specific problem: runtime defense (guardrails, agentic security), offensive testing (red teaming), or posture and inventory (AI SPM, MLSecOps). A tool that claims all three rarely does any of them deeply.
- Confirm it covers your actual model deployment: hosted APIs from the major LLM providers, self-hosted open-weight models, or both. Coverage gaps here make the rest of the evaluation moot.
- For runtime tools, measure latency and false-positive rate against your own traffic. A guardrail that adds noticeable delay or blocks legitimate prompts gets disabled in production, which means zero protection.
- Examine how the tool integrates with what you already run: CI/CD pipelines for MLSecOps, your SIEM and SOAR for alerts, and your existing AppSec workflow. Standalone tools that do not feed your stack create blind spots.
- Verify threat coverage against a real framework like the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications or MITRE ATLAS, not the vendor's own list. Ask which specific attack classes it detects and which it explicitly does not.
- Weigh build versus buy for governance: if your driver is the EU AI Act or internal policy, confirm the tool produces evidence and reporting your compliance team can use, not just a technical dashboard.
Articles About AI Security
Tool roundups, buying guides, and strategic analysis from the CybersecTools resource library.
Best Agentic AI Security Tools in 2026
The 7 best agentic AI security tools in 2026: runtime protection, governance, red teaming, and secure execution for AI agents.
Best AI SPM Tools in 2026
The 7 best AI SPM tools in 2026 reviewed: Prisma AIRS, Zscaler AI, Sysdig, Zenity, Noma, and more. Find the right fit for your AI security stack.
Best AI Security Tools in 2026
The 7 best AI security tools in 2026 reviewed: CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR, Prisma AIRS, FortiAI, SkopeAI, Lakera Red, Cyera AI Guardian, and Secure AI Factory.
AI Security Tools FAQ
Common questions about AI Security tools, selection guides, pricing, and comparisons.
AI Security is the practice and tooling for protecting AI systems, including machine learning models, large language models, and the agents and applications built on them. It spans training data, model weights, inference endpoints, and runtime behavior. The goal is to stop attacks like prompt injection, data poisoning, and model theft while keeping AI deployments inventoried, governed, and auditable.
Traditional AppSec assumes deterministic code you can scan and patch. AI systems are probabilistic, so the attack surface includes the model's behavior itself: prompt injection, jailbreaks, data poisoning, and model extraction have no equivalent in a normal web app. AI Security layers model-aware controls like guardrails, red teaming, and posture management on top of the AppSec and cloud security you already run, rather than replacing them.
Begin where your exposure is. If you have shipped customer-facing AI features, LLM Guardrails and Agentic AI Security address the most immediate runtime risk. If you cannot list what models and AI services are running, AI SPM gives you inventory and posture first. AI Governance matters early when the EU AI Act or similar regulation applies. Most teams end up needing several of these, not one.
Your existing stack covers the infrastructure around AI but not the model behavior. Cloud security, DLP, and IAM still apply to the servers and data stores. None of them detect a jailbroken prompt, a poisoned training set, or an agent calling tools it should not. Dedicated tooling fills that model-specific gap, which is why categories like AI Red Teaming and MLSecOps exist on their own rather than as features bolted onto general security platforms.
Yes. Open-source projects exist for red teaming, prompt-injection testing, and model scanning, and they are a reasonable way to size up the threat and prove value before buying. The trade-off is that open-source tooling rarely includes managed threat intelligence, production-grade runtime guardrails, or the governance reporting compliance teams want. This category spans both open-source and commercial options, so you can match the choice to your maturity and budget.
