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Cranium vs Oligo

Cranium sells Cranium ONE, one platform for end-to-end AI security and governance, which it describes as infrastructure and LLM-agnostic. Oligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI. 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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Cranium vs Oligo: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
CraniumCranium sells Cranium ONE, one platform for end-to-end AI security and governance, which it describes as infrastructure and LLM-agnostic.cranium.aiOligoOligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI.oligo.security
What it sells
  • Discover[1][16]Gives visibility into every AI model, agent, dataset and vendor across an enterprise and builds a system of record for them.
  • Govern[1][3][4][5][8][12]Defines, implements and enforces AI policy mapped to frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
  • Secure[1][6][13]Stress-tests models against adversarial threats and applies runtime defenses and targeted remediation.
  • Prove[1][7]Generates real-time compliance evidence, called Cranium AI Cards, to share with customers, partners and regulators.
  • AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)[11]Oligo AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) delivers real-time visibility and control over every AI asset running in the environment.
  • Real-Time BOM[8]Oligo generates a Real-Time BOM that detects exactly which libraries are executed.
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Headquarters
Short Hills, United States[3]Not stated on its pages
Founded
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Privately held[9][15]Privately held
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • May 21, 2026Cranium AI and ISTARI announced a strategic partnership combining Cranium AI's security and governance platform with ISTARI's cyber resilience advisory expertise.[3]
  • May 21, 2026Cranium AI announced it has acquired Aiceberg, an agentic AI security and risk management company, and Aiceberg CEO Alex Schlager becomes Cranium AI's Chief Technology Officer.[15]
  • May 21, 2026Cranium AI and ISTARI, a cyber resilience advisory firm, announced a strategic partnership to offer organizations an AI security and governance solution.[8]
  • February 4, 2026Cranium AI announced it discovered an exploitation technique for hijacking agentic AI coding assistants and released free open-source IDE plugins for developers.[16]
  • August 4, 2026Oligo Security announced the completion of a $60 million financing round, bringing its total funding to $140 million.[16]
  • August 4, 2026Oligo Security said it raised $60 million in new funding to speed up product innovation and expand its global go-to-market operations.[15]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen October 24, 2026[9]
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, the company sells mainly to buyers who run AI across many models, since it states that its platform works with any model, any framework. It has pages for industries named Financial Services, Life Sciences and Telecommunications. It also has pages by job function for Compliance & Risk, Governance & Policy, Third-Party & Vendor Risk and Data Science. The pages also say that global carriers and banks are on board.Oligo addresses security operations teams that are flooded with alerts and overwhelmed by false positives. Oligo addresses teams protecting IaaS and containerized environments and applications. Oligo pages address organizations that need to keep compliant with FedRAMP, PCI 4.0, and license policies.
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September 27, 2026October 23, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Cranium and Oligo are both filed under AI model and agent security.
  • Both are privately held.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Cranium's primary category is AI governance; Oligo's is Cloud workload protection.
  • Oligo is also filed under Software composition analysis.
  • Cranium lists Discover, Govern, Secure and Prove. Oligo lists AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Real-Time BOM.
  • Cranium is headquartered in Short Hills, United States.

What it sells: Oligo

What AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) does[11]
Oligo generates a real-time bill of materials for every AI component and dependency. Oligo can detect drift, unauthorized model changes, and risky third-party AI services.
What Real-Time BOM does[8]
Oligo enriches SBOMs with exploitability determinations. Oligo VEX and Real-Time BOMs are generated from running applications.

Questions about Cranium and Oligo

What do Cranium and Oligo sell?
Cranium sells Discover, Govern, Secure and Prove. Oligo sells AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Real-Time BOM.
Are Cranium and Oligo in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Cranium's primary category is AI governance and Oligo's is Cloud workload protection.
Where are Cranium and Oligo headquartered?
Cranium is headquartered in Short Hills, United States.
Who owns Cranium and Oligo?
Cranium is privately held. Oligo is privately held.
Who are Cranium and Oligo sold to?
From its own pages, the company sells mainly to buyers who run AI across many models, since it states that its platform works with any model, any framework. Oligo addresses security operations teams that are flooded with alerts and overwhelmed by false positives.
What have Cranium and Oligo announced recently?
May 21, 2026: Cranium AI and ISTARI announced a strategic partnership combining Cranium AI's security and governance platform with ISTARI's cyber resilience advisory expertise. August 4, 2026: Oligo Security announced the completion of a $60 million financing round, bringing its total funding to $140 million.

About Cranium

Cranium sells Cranium ONE, one platform for end-to-end AI security and governance, which it describes as infrastructure and LLM-agnostic. Cranium organizes the platform around the AI Trust Loop, five stages that run continuously: Discover, Observe, Govern, Secure and Prove.[1][4][5][6]

Cranium says AI adoption expands what an enterprise has to defend. Its pages name three problem areas: shadow AI, autonomous agents and third-party AI. Cranium says teams adopt models and copilots faster than security can see them, and that agents plan, call tools, read memory and hand off to other agents. Cranium also says an AI supply chain runs through vendors a buyer does not control.[1]

In the Discover stage, Cranium says a buyer gains visibility into every AI model, agent, dataset and vendor across the enterprise and builds one living system of record. Cranium describes automated AI discovery and inventory, and an AI Bill of Materials for each system.[1][10]

In the Observe stage, Cranium says buyers can track, evaluate and understand complex model and agent behaviors, along with token usage and cost efficiency. Cranium describes sessions views, sequence diagrams of agent tool calls and event-level drill-downs. It cites 100+ risk signals and 250+ intent classifications. Cranium says verdicts come from deterministic classifiers, and that Trace shows the samples, labels and relevance scores behind each decision.[1][6][11]

In the Govern stage, Cranium says buyers can define, implement and enforce AI policy, mapped to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act and internal standards. Cranium also names ISO 42001 as a mapped framework. Cranium ComplianceAgent automates framework completion with human oversight, and continuous compliance scoring shows where each system stands.[1][12]

In the Secure stage, Cranium says buyers can stress-test models against real-world threats, surface vulnerabilities and apply targeted controls before and after deployment. Cranium Arena is its agent-based red teaming, using MITRE ATLAS, OWASP and Cranium AI threat libraries. Cranium Arena Shield turns findings into auto-generated remediations and guardrails, and re-tests to verify the fix.[1][13]

In the Prove stage, Cranium says buyers can demonstrate compliance posture on demand and share evidence with customers, partners and regulators through real-time Cranium AI Cards and Trust Hubs.[1][14]

Cranium says it fits its controls to finance, life sciences and telecom. Cranium states that it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and ISO 27001 certified, and an active member of the U.S AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), established by NIST.[1][2][5][10]

Cranium on the record

Sources

Cranium full record

  1. [1]Cranium – Secure & Govern Enterprise AICranium · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Cranium ai security 2023KPMG · kpmg.com · published April 5, 2023 · Tier A
  3. [3]Cranium AI and ISTARI Forge Global Alliance to Drive Enterprise AI Security and GovernanceCranium · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]AI Security & Governance Platform – CraniumCranium · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]AI Security & Governance Solutions – CraniumCranium · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Enterprise AI Security Solutions – CraniumCranium · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]AI Compliance — EU AI Act, NIST & ISO 42001 – CraniumCranium · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Cranium AI and ISTARI Forge Global Alliance to Drive Enterprise AI Security and GovernanceBusiness Wire · published May 21, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cranium Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  10. [10]For Security Teams – Cranium AICranium · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]AI Observability & Runtime Monitoring – Cranium AICranium · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]AI Governance & Policy Enforcement – Cranium AICranium · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]AI Red Teaming & Attack Simulation – Cranium AICranium · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]For Compliance & Risk Leaders – Cranium AICranium · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Cranium AI Acquires Aiceberg to Strengthen its End-to-End AI Security, Governance and Agentic AI PlatformCranium AI · published May 21, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Cranium AI Issues Critical Remediation for Vulnerability to Protect Leading AI Coding AssistantsBusiness Wire · published February 4, 2026 · Tier A

Oligo full record

  1. [1]oligo.securityOligo Security · oligo.security · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]OLIGO Security Crosses $140M in Total Funding with $60M Round to Stop AI Driven AttacksBusiness Wire · businesswire.com · published August 4, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Runtime Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Detection and Response | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Workload Protection | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Application Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Application Vulnerability Management | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Real-Time BOM | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Supply Chain Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Compliance and Assurance | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]AI Security Management | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Runtime Security Leadership | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Security Operations | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Cloud Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Oligo Security raises $60M as AI speeds up exploit development - SiliconANGLESiliconANGLE · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B
  16. [16]Israeli runtime security co Oligo raises $60m - GlobesGlobes · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B

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