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Enkrypt AI vs Salt Security

Enkrypt AI sells an AI security platform with products for red teaming agents, enforcing runtime guardrails, turning policy into controls, auditing AI data, and scanning and gating MCP tool traffic. Salt Security provides security for the APIs, MCP servers and data infrastructure where agents execute. 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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  • Enkrypt AI
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Enkrypt AI vs Salt Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Enkrypt AIEnkrypt AI sells an AI security platform with products for red teaming agents, enforcing runtime guardrails, turning policy into controls, auditing AI data, and scanning and gating MCP tool traffic.enkryptai.comSalt SecuritySalt Security provides security for the APIs, MCP servers and data infrastructure where agents execute.salt.security
What it sells
  • AI Data Risk Audit[1][6]Produces a sign-off packet for Security and Legal on the data an AI system uses.
  • MCP Gateway[1][4][8]Open-source control plane that sits inline between agents and MCP servers.
  • Agentic Security Graph[4][8]Maps and correlates the full environment out-of-band.
  • Salt Surface[5][9]Provides agentless, outside-in discovery of MCP servers and APIs.
  • Salt Connect[5][9]Provides cloud and code inventory.
Categories
Headquarters
Brighton, United StatesPalo Alto, United States[1][3]
Founded
2022[2]2016[1][11]
Ownership and funding
Privately held[1][7]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • June 1, 2026Salt Security launched Salt Code, a component that enforces security policies on AI-generated code across the development lifecycle.[17]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[7]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Enkrypt AI sells mainly to teams shipping customer-facing chat or voice agents in regulated industries such as Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, and Government. Its pricing describes plans for startups launching AI, small teams, growing companies with multiple agents, and large enterprises in regulated industries needing VPC or on-prem deployment. Enkrypt AI states that its release packet is meant to give Security, Legal, and Product what they need to approve an agent. Teams adopting MCP are named as a stated audience for its MCP products.From its own pages, the company shows an industry solution for Finance, described as stop fraud and abuse. It lists one for Healthcare, described as HIPPAA-grade protection. Transportation is also listed, with secure logistics APIs. Retail is listed, with protect PII at scale. Software is listed, with API-first app security. Its whitepaper page also says security teams face a challenge in which the action layer goes unmonitored.
Last verified
November 9, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Enkrypt AI and Salt Security are both filed under AI model and agent security.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Enkrypt AI's primary category is AI model and agent security; Salt Security's is API security.
  • Enkrypt AI is also filed under AI firewalls and guardrails and AI governance.
  • Enkrypt AI lists AI Data Risk Audit and MCP Gateway. Salt Security lists Agentic Security Graph, Salt Surface and Salt Connect.
  • Enkrypt AI is headquartered in Brighton, United States. Salt Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.
  • Enkrypt AI was founded in 2022. Salt Security was founded in 2016.
  • Enkrypt AI is privately held.

What it sells: Enkrypt AI

What AI Data Risk Audit does[1][6]
Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit evaluates the datasets a customer brings for a specific AI system and intended use. Intended uses include TRAIN, RAG, and EVAL. Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit works across text, audio and images, in multiple languages. It is re-run when datasets or connectors change.
What MCP Gateway does[1][4][8]
MCP Gateway approves, modifies, or blocks tool calls. MCP Gateway runs as a sidecar or gateway in the tool path. Enkrypt AI adds enterprise capabilities such as centralized policy management, tenant-aware enforcement, reporting, and support.

What it sells: Salt Security

What Agentic Security Graph does[4][8]
Salt's Agentic Security Graph maps and correlates the full environment out-of-band. Salt describes its agentic security platform as one graph of agents, the MCP servers they use and the APIs they call, with the context behind each one.
What Salt Surface does[5][9]
Salt Surface provides agentless, outside-in discovery of MCP servers and APIs. Salt Surface discovers these from the outside, without an agent.
What Salt Connect does[5][9]
Salt Connect provides cloud and code inventory. Salt names Salt Connect together with collectors that are used where runtime analysis is needed.

Questions about Enkrypt AI and Salt Security

What do Enkrypt AI and Salt Security sell?
Enkrypt AI sells AI Data Risk Audit and MCP Gateway. Salt Security sells Agentic Security Graph, Salt Surface and Salt Connect.
Are Enkrypt AI and Salt Security in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Enkrypt AI's primary category is AI model and agent security and Salt Security's is API security.
Where are Enkrypt AI and Salt Security headquartered?
Enkrypt AI is headquartered in Brighton, United States. Salt Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.
When were Enkrypt AI and Salt Security founded?
Enkrypt AI was founded in 2022. Salt Security was founded in 2016.
Who owns Enkrypt AI and Salt Security?
Enkrypt AI is privately held.
Who are Enkrypt AI and Salt Security sold to?
From its own pages, Enkrypt AI sells mainly to teams shipping customer-facing chat or voice agents in regulated industries such as Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, and Government. From its own pages, the company shows an industry solution for Finance, described as stop fraud and abuse.
What have Enkrypt AI and Salt Security announced recently?
June 1, 2026: Salt Security launched Salt Code, a component that enforces security policies on AI-generated code across the development lifecycle.

About Enkrypt AI

Enkrypt AI sells an AI security platform with products for red teaming agents, enforcing runtime guardrails, turning policy into controls, auditing AI data, and scanning and gating MCP tool traffic. Enkrypt AI describes the platform as purpose-built to cover every threat, regulation, and modality.

Enkrypt AI Red Teaming finds failure modes across text, audio, and vision, including agents, tools, RAG, and MCP. Enkrypt AI Red Teaming turns findings into prioritized fixes and evidence-ready reports for security, risk, and compliance. Enkrypt AI Red Teaming adds closure evidence and regression tests to a CI gate. Findings can be promoted into Guardrails policies and monitored in production.[3]

Enkrypt AI Guardrails is the runtime layer that approves, modifies, or blocks risky behavior across agents, tools, RAG, and MCP. Every enforcement decision is logged, and Enkrypt AI says each decision includes a policy id, policy version, and reason code. Enkrypt AI Guardrails takes SSO and IAM claims for role-aware and tenant-aware policies, including Okta, Azure AD, and custom JWT claims. Enkrypt AI Guardrails can apply guardrails inline in the MCP Gateway, not just in the model prompt. Enkrypt AI Guardrails is API-first and works with an existing model stack.[4]

Enkrypt AI Policy Engine converts natural-language AI governance policy and regulatory text, including PDFs, into controls. Enkrypt AI Policy Engine enforces those controls across the platform with traceability that can be audited. Controls are reviewed and approved, then published to dev, stage, and prod environments. Policies are versioned, with diff review, staged rollouts, and rollback. Enkrypt AI Policy Engine combines internal governance requirements with external standards into a single control model. OWASP, NIST, and EU AI Act are included as defaults.[5]

Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit produces a sign-off packet for Security and Legal covering what data an AI system uses, what risk it carries, and what is approved for AI. Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit evaluates the datasets a customer brings for a specific AI system and intended use. Intended uses include TRAIN, RAG, and EVAL. Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit can block a dataset for TRAIN and approve it for RAG with conditions. Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit works across text, audio and images, in multiple languages. Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit connects to Jira and ServiceNow for remediation and approvals, and is re-run when datasets or connectors change.[6]

Enkrypt AI MCP Scanner discovers tools, analyzes capabilities and permissions, and surfaces high-risk exposure. MCP Scanner covers configuration, permissions, tool schemas, endpoints, and common vulnerability patterns on MCP servers and tool surfaces. MCP Scanner scans internal MCP servers during development and before rollout, not just public MCPs. MCP Scanner scores severity on exploitability and impact, and on exposure. MCP Gateway is open source and sits inline between agents and MCP servers to approve, modify, or block tool calls. Enkrypt AI adds enterprise capabilities to MCP Gateway such as centralized policy management, tenant-aware enforcement, reporting, and support. MCP Gateway runs as a sidecar or gateway in the tool path, in Kubernetes, edge, or service mesh patterns. MCP Scanner findings inform an approved registry and policy defaults, and MCP Gateway enforces those decisions at runtime.[8]

Enkrypt AI says its customer-facing agents offering targets teams shipping customer-facing chat or voice agents in regulated industries such as Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, and Government. Enkrypt AI produces an Agent Release Packet, a single, forwardable document that gives every stakeholder the evidence they need to approve an agent. Enkrypt AI says teams that used to spend 4 to 6 months in review loops ship in 30 days. Enkrypt AI describes a large insurance services provider that used Enkrypt AI to secure its customer-facing AI-powered Chatbot app. Enkrypt AI describes a financial organization that scaled its tax preparation services through an AI-enabled tax chatbot. Enkrypt AI describes a medical device company that wanted to deploy an AI app for personalized medicine adherence. NetApp partnered with Enkrypt AI to ensure data readiness for Gen AI and to remove data risks on its platform.[9][10]

Enkrypt AI lists SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 among its security and compliance credentials. Its address is 1660 Soldiers Field Rd. Brighton, MA 02135.[11]

Enkrypt AI on the record

Sources

Enkrypt AI full record

  1. [1]Enkrypt AI | World's Most Comprehensive AI Security PlatformEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]MultimodalaisecurityEnkrypt AI · enkryptai.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Enkrypt AI Agent Red TeamingEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Enkrypt AI Agent Guardrails | Secure AI Agents EffortlesslyEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Enkrypt AI Agent Policy Engine | Secure & Control AI Agents EffortlesslyEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Enkrypt AI Data Risk Audit | Secure Your AI Data NowEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Enkrypt AI MCP Scanner: Advanced AI Threat Detection & SecurityEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Enkrypt AI MCP Gateway | Inline Policy Control for MCP Tool TrafficEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Secure Customer-Facing Agents | Enkrypt AI Compliance & ReleaseEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Industry | Enkrypt AIEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Pricing | Enkrypt AIEnkrypt AI · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A

Salt Security full record

  1. [1]Salt security raises 140 million series d round led by capitalg at 1 4 billion valuationSalt Security · salt.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Salt security extends its agentic security platform with native ai detection and responseSalt Security · salt.security · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Contact usSalt Security · salt.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]The Agentic Security Graph: A New Framework for the AI EraSalt Security · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Salt Security: Agentic AI Security, MCP Discovery, and API SecuritySalt Security · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]EU AI Act Compliance 2026: What High-risk AI Systems Must Do Now | Salt SecuritySalt Security · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Salt Security Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier C
  8. [8]Onyx Security vs Salt Security | Secure the Agentic Action LayerSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Securing APIs - API Attack Surface Management SolutionSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Salt Security Master Services AgreementSalt Security · published May 20, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]API Security Company - About Us Salt Security API SecuritySalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Agentic Security Platform - Complete AI & API Protection PlatformSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]API Security Software - API Security Management SoftwareSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Proactive API Security - “Shift Left" API DevelopmentSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]API Security Customers - Salt Security CustomersSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]API Security Trends - API Attacks, Breaches & Threats ReportSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Salt Security launches Salt CodeSalt Security · published June 1, 2026 · Tier A

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