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Operant AI

CISO Tribune company record: Operant AI, security vendor (AI firewalls and guardrails)

Where Operant AI appears on the record (69)

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What the company sells

Operant AI sells one platform covering Endpoints, Agents, MCPs, and AI applications. Operant AI describes its platform as discovering, detecting, and defending all AI, agents, and MCP in real time. Operant AI says many customers start with Endpoint Protector or Agent Protector and add MCP Gateway and AI Gatekeeper as their AI footprint expands. Operant AI says all plans include the full Operant platform and differ in depth, deployment options, and the level of partnership.

Endpoint Protector enforces AI trust boundaries on the laptop. Endpoint Protector discovers Shadow AI tools, coding agents, and MCP clients on employee devices. Endpoint Protector monitors agent loops and blocks prompt injection, data exfiltration, and malicious shell execution directly on the device. Operant AI's endpoint coverage provides governance and runtime detection for coding and coworking agents running on employee endpoints.

Agent Protector inventories all AI agents operating within an organization's infrastructure. Agent Protector covers managed agents deployed through official channels and unmanaged agents running in cloud environments, SaaS platforms, and development tools. Agent Protector blocks the action inline when an agent attempts to access resources outside its established patterns, escalate privileges, or exhibit signs of data exfiltration. Agent Protector analyzes agent behavior patterns to identify and prevent security threats before they execute. Agent Protector monitors behavior, detects threats, and blocks attacks from zero-click exploits to data exfiltration and rogue agents. Operant AI's cloud agent coverage provides runtime security for homegrown and cloud-native agents, with support for AWS and Azure.

Operant Semantic Firewall understands the intent behind every agent action and enforces an allow, block, or redact decision inline, in real time. Operant AI reads the meaning of every prompt, plan, tool call, command, and data payload before it executes. Operant Semantic Firewall holds an agent to its assigned purpose across the whole session, catching drift from manipulation or its own initiative. Operant Semantic Firewall enforces access by data sensitivity, honoring the classification labels governance tools already set. Operant AI can redact the sensitive part of an action and let the agent keep working within scope, instead of killing the workflow.

Operant AI provides visibility and controls for every MCP server, client, tool, and connection in an environment, with MCP registries, white list and black lists, and NHI access controls. Operant AI catalogs MCP tools and discovers AI agents in real time across all environments. Operant AI detects prompt injections, jailbreaks, tool poisoning, and unauthorized access patterns across all MCP client and server interactions in real time. Operant AI implements MCP trust zones with real-time blocking of untrusted servers and tools. Operant AI prevents leaks of sensitive data and intellectual property through flow blocking and automatic redaction. Operant AI enforces least privilege execution controls and detailed access permissions for MCP tool usage.

AI Gatekeeper detects and blocks unauthenticated and unauthorized AI behavior in real time. Operant AI's AI application coverage is an LLM gateway with native firewall, offering multi-provider routing, request inspection, and traffic security for every AI application. Operant AI's 3D Runtime Defense provides real-time security across every cluster and every cloud, from infra to APIs. Operant AI detects and prioritizes AI-specific risks such as prompt injection, LLM poisoning, model theft, and sensitive data leakage. Operant AI applies in-line auto-redaction and obfuscation of sensitive and PII data.

Operant API & Cloud Protector catches and blocks malicious traffic at ingress and egress. Operant AI protects internal and third party API interactions with K8s-native controls for protocol specific authentication, authorization, traffic rate limiting, and API to API microsegmentation. Woodpecker provides flexible and extensible red teaming frameworks for K8s, APIs, and AI models and agents, and enables multi-layer threat simulation across runtime, APIs, and LLM integrations. Woodpecker covers prompt injection, jailbreaks, model theft, sensitive data leakage, and more.

Operant AI describes deployment as a single step helm install with zero instrumentation and zero integrations. Operant starts in observe-only mode by default, and customers decide when and where to enable enforcement. Operant AI offers VPC, on-premise, and air-gapped deployments on the Enterprise plan. Operant AI says pricing scales with the breadth and depth of its customers' AI surface, including endpoints under management, agents in production, and the governance needed across MCPs and AI applications. Operant AI supports workloads from coding agents on employee laptops to cloud agents across any infra, including LLM apps, AI agents, MCP servers, microservices, APIs, and traditional environments. Operant AI covers SaaS agents including Glean, Salesforce Agentforce, and Microsoft Copilot.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Categories
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States[2]
Founded
Not established from our sources
Ownership
Privately held[1][3]
CISO on record
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Website
operant.ai

Products and services

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  • Operant Semantic Firewall[1][7]

    Understands the intent behind every agent action and enforces an allow, block, or redact decision inline, in real time.

    Operant Semantic Firewall holds an agent to its assigned purpose across the whole session, catching drift from manipulation or its own initiative. Operant can redact the sensitive part of an action and let the agent keep working within scope, instead of killing the workflow.

  • Agent Protector[1][5][6]

    Inventories all AI agents operating within an organization's infrastructure.

    Agent Protector covers managed agents deployed through official channels and unmanaged agents running in cloud environments, SaaS platforms, and development tools. Agent Protector analyzes agent behavior patterns to identify and prevent security threats before they execute.

Competitors and alternatives

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Recent news

Dated company events from the last twelve months, each in one sentence of ours with its source. Newest first.

  • May 4, 2026

    Operant AI launched Operant Endpoint Protector, a new addition to its AI Defense Platform for discovering and defending against threats across AI tools and coding agents. Help Net Security[4]

References

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  1. [1]Operant AI - Secure Your AIOperant AI · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  2. [2]Operant ai launches agent protector the first real time agentic security solution enabling safe ai agent innovation at scaleOperant AI via GlobeNewswire · globenewswire.com · published February 5, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  3. [3]Operant ai secures 10m series a to protect the modern cloud across apis applications and aiOperant AI via GlobeNewswire · globenewswire.com · published September 12, 2024 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  4. [4]Operant AI Endpoint Protector secures AI agents and MCP toolsHelp Net Security · published May 4, 2026 · Tier B: trade or business press
  5. [5]Pricing - AI & Agent Security Platform | Operant AIOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  6. [6]Agent Protector: Real-Time AI Agent Security | OperantOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  7. [7]Operant Semantic Firewall | Govern AI Agents in Real TimeOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  8. [8]Operant MCP GatewayOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  9. [9]AI GatekeeperOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  10. [10]AI Application SecurityOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  11. [11]API & Cloud Protector | Real-Time API Security | Operant AIOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  12. [12]Woodpecker: Open Source Red Teaming for AI, APIs & K8sOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  13. [13]FAQsOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
  14. [14]Start Your Free 7-Day Trial | Operant AI Security PlatformOperant AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

Last verified September 27, 2026. Our code found the quoted passage behind each fact on its source page when the fact was recorded, and re-checks every record against its sources each month.

Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 10, 2026 from the references above.

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Questions CISOs ask about Operant AI

What does Operant AI sell?
Operant AI sells Operant Semantic Firewall and Agent Protector. Operant Semantic Firewall: Understands the intent behind every agent action and enforces an allow, block, or redact decision inline, in real time. Agent Protector: Inventories all AI agents operating within an organization's infrastructure.
Who does Operant AI fit?
It describes plans for teams putting their first production AI into customers' hands and for companies running AI across teams and products with critical data and compliance requirements. Its pages say regulated and government deployments mostly use the VPC, on-premise, or air-gapped options on the Enterprise plan. Workloads it covers range from coding agents on employee laptops to cloud agents across any infra.
How does CISO Tribune file Operant AI?
CISO Tribune files Operant AI under AI firewalls and guardrails, with AI model and agent security as a secondary category.
Where is Operant AI headquartered?
Operant AI is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
Who owns Operant AI?
Operant AI is privately held.

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