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Alice vs Zenity

Alice's WonderSuite gives security, product, and compliance teams red teaming and real-time guardrails. Zenity sells an AI agent security platform built to govern how agents behave, not just what they say or generate. CISO Tribune files both under AI model and agent security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Alice vs Zenity: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AliceAlice's WonderSuite gives security, product, and compliance teams red teaming and real-time guardrails.alice.ioZenityZenity sells an AI agent security platform built to govern how agents behave, not just what they say or generate.zenity.io
What it sells
  • WonderSuite[1][2][4][5]WonderSuite is the AI security platform for teams launching customer-facing AI in regulated industries.
  • WonderBuild[1][6][9]WonderBuild red teams customer-facing AI apps, agents, and agentic workflows before launch.
  • WonderFence[1][3][4][6][7][8][9]WonderFence sits between external-facing AI and users, intercepting harmful, non-compliant, and off-policy responses before they land.
  • WonderCheck[1][4][7][9]WonderCheck's ongoing automated red-teaming detects drift, regression, and emerging risks.
  • Rabbit Hole[1][6][10][11]Rabbit Hole is an adversarial network of in-house researchers and data.
  • ActiveFence[3][8]Alice's ActiveFence is a UGC trust and safety layer that detects, prevents, and responds to online harm.
  • AI Observability[5]Builds a live inventory of every agent across an organization's environment and tracks the data those agents access.
  • AI Security Posture Management (AISPM)[7]Evaluates configuration, permissions, and integrations before an agent goes live.
  • Boundaries[4][6][8]Evaluates every agent action in real time against an organization's rules and decides to let it through, block it, or shut the agent down.
  • AI Detection and Response (AIDR)[9]AIDR reads the full sequence of an agent's activity, detecting threats mapped to the OWASP LLM and MITRE ATLAS frameworks.
  • Zenity Security Assessment Hub[13]A set of 10 free, open-source tools built by Zenity Labs to help security teams identify and understand immediate risks.
Categories
Headquarters
New York, USA[1]Not stated on its pages
Founded
Not stated on its pages2021[2]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesPrivately held[3][6][17]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • September 23, 2026Zenity was named a Market Shaper in Gartner's inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security.[15]
  • August 3, 2026Zenity announced a $125 million Series C round led by Norwest.[14]
  • June 17, 2026Zenity and Carahsoft announced a partnership under which Carahsoft serves as Zenity's Public Sector distributor.[17]
  • March 17, 2026Zenity announced general availability of runtime security controls for AI agents built on Microsoft Foundry.[16]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 10, 2026[14]
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Alice offers WonderSuite to teams launching customer-facing AI in regulated industries. The pages describe WonderSuite giving security, product, and compliance teams red teaming and real-time guardrails. Foundation model labs, global enterprises and platforms deploying AI are the customers Alice names. Alice describes its ActiveFence layer as serving social platforms and marketplaces with UGC trust and safety. ActiveFence's deep web investigations serve enterprises and governments tracing malicious operations.Zenity describes a global financial services firm and a global asset manager as organizations that write policy rules for agents. Zenity covers agents embedded in SaaS tools, home-grown agentic platforms in the cloud, and end-user devices. Zenity gives security and platform teams a single place to surface, enforce, and protect MCP usage.
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October 29, 2026November 9, 2026

Where they overlap

  • AI model and agent security is the primary category of both Alice and Zenity.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Alice is also filed under AI firewalls and guardrails. Zenity is also filed under AI governance.
  • Alice lists WonderSuite, WonderBuild, WonderFence, WonderCheck, Rabbit Hole and 1 more. Zenity lists AI Observability, AI Security Posture Management (AISPM), Boundaries, AI Detection and Response (AIDR) and Zenity Security Assessment Hub.
  • Alice is headquartered in New York, USA.
  • Zenity was founded in 2021.
  • Zenity is privately held.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Alice and Zenity under AI model and agent security as the primary category, and each also appears in a second category: AI firewalls and guardrails for Alice, AI governance for Zenity. Alice sells WonderSuite, a platform covering pre-launch red teaming, real-time guardrails, and continuous post-launch testing for customer-facing AI in regulated industries. Zenity sells an AI agent security platform that spans discovery, policy, identity, and runtime defense. Its products include AI Observability, AI Security Posture Management, Boundaries, and AI Detection and Response.

The two overlap on runtime controls for AI systems: Alice's WonderFence screens prompts and responses, while Zenity's Boundaries evaluates every agent action in real time against an organization's rules. Alice also sells ActiveFence, a UGC trust and safety layer, and Rabbit Hole, an adversarial research network. Zenity also offers the Zenity Security Assessment Hub, a set of 10 free, open-source tools built by Zenity Labs. Alice is headquartered in New York, USA, and ActiveFence Ltd does business as Alice. Zenity was founded in 2021 and is privately held, and it announced a $125 million Series C round led by Norwest on August 3, 2026.

Alice names foundation model labs and global enterprises and platforms deploying AI as its customers. Zenity names Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 enterprises, and describes a global financial services firm and a global asset manager that write policy rules for agents. On recent activity, Alice and AI21 post-trained NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3.5 Super to resist indirect prompt injection. Zenity was named a Market Shaper in Gartner's inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security on September 23, 2026.

What it sells: Alice

What WonderSuite does[1][2][4][5]
WonderSuite tests security and safety posture before launch, protects the AI experience in production, and catches what changes over time. WonderSuite covers pre-launch red teaming, real-time guardrails, and continuous post-launch testing in a single platform. WonderSuite provides end-to-end security coverage for agentic systems, from adversarial testing before deployment to real-time behavioral guardrails in production.
What WonderBuild does[1][6][9]
WonderBuild identifies gaps between policies and the system prompt, across text, multimodal, and agentic systems. WonderBuild gives CISO, legal, and compliance teams test documentation with findings mapped to regulatory requirements. WonderBuild red-teaming findings integrate into WonderFence.
What WonderFence does[1][3][4][6][7][8][9]
WonderFence reviews every prompt coming in and every response going out, and blocks harmful inputs before they hit the LLM. WonderFence trains a dedicated detector for each policy using real-world adversarial data, deployed at sub-100ms latency. WonderFence maps guardrails to EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP.
What WonderCheck does[1][4][7][9]
WonderCheck integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines for on-demand, scheduled, and ongoing testing. WonderCheck ranks issues by severity and pairs each one with clear remediation guidance. WonderCheck findings flow directly into WonderFence guardrails, or back into WonderBuild for deeper refinement.
What Rabbit Hole does[1][6][10][11]
Rabbit Hole collects real attacks and uses them to secure AI. Alice's solutions are powered by Rabbit Hole, an adversarial threat intelligence engine built on billions of real-world data samples.
What ActiveFence does[3][8]
ActiveFence live feeds surface harmful content, viral narratives, and coordinated manipulation in real time, across languages and regions. ActiveFence conducts deep web investigations to expose networks, specific threat actors, and emerging tactics. ActiveFence's SaaS tools are built for content moderation.

What it sells: Zenity

What AI Observability does[5]
AI Observability is Zenity's discovery and visibility layer for AI agents. Data Lens surfaces sensitive files and pages that are both frequently accessed and broadly exposed across agents.
What AI Security Posture Management (AISPM) does[7]
AISPM evaluates configuration and permissions for agents embedded in platforms like Microsoft Copilot Studio, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Salesforce Agentforce. AISPM applies stricter enforcement in production and more flexible policy in development or sandbox environments.
What Boundaries does[4][6][8]
Boundaries is Zenity's runtime enforcement engine. A rule written once in Boundaries is enforced on Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Agentforce, Bedrock, coding agents, and homegrown builds. Boundaries includes a built-in AI assistant that turns a plain-language request into a working rule.
What AI Detection and Response (AIDR) does[9]
AI Detection and Response (AIDR) is Zenity's runtime security layer for AI agents. AIDR detects direct and indirect prompt injection and blocks execution before the agent acts on them. AIDR breaks every agent interaction into individual steps and groups them by thread in a single activity table.
What Zenity Security Assessment Hub does[13]
The Zenity Security Assessment Hub is built by Zenity Labs. The tools take a Red-Team approach to visualize threats across Microsoft 365, with a focus on 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform.

Questions about Alice and Zenity

What do Alice and Zenity sell?
Alice sells WonderSuite, WonderBuild, WonderFence, WonderCheck, Rabbit Hole and 1 more. Zenity sells AI Observability, AI Security Posture Management (AISPM), Boundaries, AI Detection and Response (AIDR) and Zenity Security Assessment Hub.
Are Alice and Zenity in the same category?
Yes. AI model and agent security is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Alice and Zenity headquartered?
Alice is headquartered in New York, USA.
When were Alice and Zenity founded?
Zenity was founded in 2021.
Who owns Alice and Zenity?
Zenity is privately held.
Who are Alice and Zenity sold to?
From its own pages, Alice offers WonderSuite to teams launching customer-facing AI in regulated industries. Zenity describes a global financial services firm and a global asset manager as organizations that write policy rules for agents.
What have Alice and Zenity announced recently?
September 23, 2026: Zenity was named a Market Shaper in Gartner's inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security.

About Alice

Alice's WonderSuite gives security, product, and compliance teams red teaming and real-time guardrails. ActiveFence Ltd does business as Alice. WonderSuite is the AI security platform for teams launching customer-facing AI in regulated industries. WonderSuite tests security and safety posture before launch, protects the AI experience in production, and catches what changes over time. WonderSuite combines automated adversarial testing with expert-led red teaming and real-time protection. WonderSuite covers pre-launch red teaming, real-time guardrails, and continuous post-launch testing in a single platform. In WonderSuite, automated red teaming assesses how an agent behaves before any guardrails are deployed. WonderSuite aligns every test, guardrail, and finding to customer policies and to compliance frameworks, including OWASP, NIST, MITRE ATLAS, and the EU AI Act.[2][3][4][5]

WonderBuild red teams customer-facing AI apps, agents, and agentic workflows before launch. WonderBuild runs thousands of adversarial tests based on custom policies that surface prompt injections, jailbreaks, data leakage risks, and compliance and regulatory gaps. WonderBuild uses adversarial data from Rabbit Hole to expose the path attackers take. WonderBuild identifies gaps between policies and the system prompt, across text, multimodal, and agentic systems. WonderBuild gives CISO, legal, and compliance teams test documentation with findings mapped to regulatory requirements. WonderBuild red-teaming findings integrate into WonderFence.[6]

WonderFence sits between external-facing AI and users, intercepting harmful, non-compliant, and off-policy responses before they land. WonderFence deploys runtime guardrails tuned to the customer's application and policies, intercepting harmful, non-compliant, or off-brand responses. WonderFence reviews every prompt coming in and every response going out, blocks harmful inputs before they hit the LLM, and blocks harmful outputs in real time before they impact users. WonderFence trains a dedicated detector for each policy using real-world adversarial data, deployed at sub-100ms latency. WonderFence watches every message in both directions, 24/7, blocking, masking, or alerting in real time, with activity tracked in a dashboard. WonderFence maps guardrails to the regulatory frameworks that legal and compliance teams care about: EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP. WonderFence is now a Databricks Unity AI Gateway External Policy that can be attached once in Unity Catalog to screen every governed model call, with no SDK and no code changes.[3][4][7][8]

WonderCheck runs continuous automated red teaming in production. WonderCheck's ongoing automated red-teaming detects drift, regression, and emerging risks. WonderCheck watches for drift, surfacing behavioral changes before they become incidents. WonderCheck integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines for on-demand, scheduled, and ongoing testing. WonderCheck ranks issues by severity and pairs each one with clear remediation guidance. WonderCheck findings flow directly into WonderFence guardrails, or back into WonderBuild for deeper refinement.[4][7][9]

Rabbit Hole is an adversarial network of in-house researchers and data that connects online attacks with the real world. Rabbit Hole collects real attacks and uses them to secure AI. Alice's solutions are powered by Rabbit Hole, an adversarial threat intelligence engine built on billions of real-world data samples collected across nearly a decade. Alice produces safety, security, multimodal, agentic, and skills-based datasets for model, application, and agent training. Alice combines expert-led and automated red-teaming to stress-test models across text, image, audio, and video under real adversarial conditions. Alice's evaluation and benchmark datasets are based on Alice's harms taxonomy or customized to customer policies. Alice provides AIGC and harmful content learning sets purpose-built for guardrail and content classifier creation. Alice provides simulated, high-fidelity environments and scenarios for training and testing AI agents and agentic models. Alice and AI21 post-trained NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3.5 Super to resist indirect prompt injection. Alice and Inflection AI are releasing a multi-turn red-teaming dataset covering risks such as emotional dependency and misplaced belief.[8][10][11][12]

Alice names foundation model labs, global enterprises and platforms deploying AI as its customers. WonderSuite provides end-to-end security coverage for agentic systems, from adversarial testing before deployment to real-time behavioral guardrails in production. WonderSuite covers prompt injection, unsafe tool calls, data leakage, and multi-step exploits across the entire agentic architecture. Alice connects directly through existing third-party Customer Experience (CX) agent extensions, so there is no need to swap vendors or rebuild integrations. Alice goes past literal translation to catch regional slang, dialect, euphemism, and coded phrasing. Alice watches every message in both directions, blocking, masking, or alerting in real time, at P99 under 120ms.[2][3][10][12]

Alice's ActiveFence is a UGC trust and safety layer that detects, prevents, and responds to online harm. ActiveFence live feeds surface harmful content, viral narratives, and coordinated manipulation in real time, across languages and regions. ActiveFence delivers datasets of adversarial indicators, domains, IPs, and hashes. ActiveFence uncovers vulnerabilities across code, systems, and infrastructure. ActiveFence conducts deep web investigations to expose networks, specific threat actors, and emerging tactics. ActiveFence's SaaS tools are built for content moderation. ActiveMind, powered by in-house large language models, helps moderation teams validate, flag, and respond to harmful content.[8][13]

Alice on the record

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Alice full record

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Zenity full record

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  14. [14]Zenity Raises $125 Million to Secure the Era of 1 Billion AI AgentsZenity · published August 3, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Zenity Named a Market Shaper in Gartner’s Inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application SecurityZenity · published September 23, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Zenity Announces Availability of Inline Agent Runtime Security for Agents Built on Microsoft FoundryZenity · published March 17, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Zenity and Carahsoft Bring AI Agent Security and Governance to Federal, State and Local AgenciesZenity · published June 17, 2026 · Tier A

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