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Kai vs SecurityScorecard

Kai is an AI company that sells the Kai Autonomous Defense Platform, an agentic AI platform for cyber asset management, application security, infrastructure vulnerability management, and detection engineering. SecurityScorecard sells a platform for continuous vendor monitoring, automated assessments and risk intelligence. CISO Tribune files both under Threat intelligence. 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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Kai vs SecurityScorecard: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
KaiKai is an AI company that sells the Kai Autonomous Defense Platform, an agentic AI platform for cyber asset management, application security, infrastructure vulnerability management, and detection engineering.kai.securitySecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard sells a platform for continuous vendor monitoring, automated assessments and risk intelligence.securityscorecard.com
What it sells
  • Kai Autonomous Defense Platform[4][13]An agentic AI platform that executes the exposure lifecycle end to end without human handoffs.
  • Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)[7]Runs all five CTEM phases and adds auto-remediation and detection as phases six and seven.
  • Kai Watch[7]Monitors telemetry to identify active exploitation while fixes are in progress.
  • AI-native SAST[15]A SAST capability in preview for select customers.
  • TITAN AI[3][4][5][6][8][13][17][18]A platform that unifies threat intelligence and third-party data to deliver real-time visibility.
  • TITAN Assess[19]Automates both sides of the security questionnaire with AI-powered workflows and expert human verification.
  • TITAN MAX[20]A managed service built on the SecurityScorecard platform.
  • ChatSSC[16]An agentic AI-powered assistant for questions about SecurityScorecard data.
  • RespondAI[19]Drafts questionnaire answers from a centralized Knowledge Base.
Categories
Headquarters
San Jose, United StatesNew York, United States[2]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2013[2]
Ownership and funding
Privately held[5]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • July 29, 2026Kai announced findings from its 2026 State of Autonomous Defense Report and made its Auto Remediation capability available.[16]
  • March 10, 2026Kai emerged from stealth with $125 million in funding, led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from N47 and strategic investors.[11]
  • September 9, 2026SecurityScorecard announced that Sarah Walker has joined the company as President, working alongside its founder and CEO.[11]
  • September 9, 2026SecurityScorecard named Sarah Walker as its President.[12]
  • August 26, 2026SecurityScorecard announced that Sami Khoury, a former Government of Canada cyber security official, has joined its Public Sector Advisory Board.[14]
  • May 14, 2026SecurityScorecard announced its acquisition of Driftnet, whose internet discovery engine is to be brought into the TITAN AI platform.[13]
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[15]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, the company sells mainly to enterprises. A blog post on its site says it has delivered autonomous security work for enterprises across multiple verticals. Its detection phase names SIEM, EDR, and XDR as the places where it deploys rules. It also says humans control the boundary between autonomous action and human review.From its own pages, the company addresses CISOs and risk and compliance professionals. It also has pages for information technology organizations, hospitality and gaming, and critical infrastructure. The critical infrastructure page names energy grids, transportation networks, and public utilities. The hospitality page refers to a lean internal security team, and the information technology page refers to tech companies with SaaS sprawl and developer ecosystem risks.
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September 27, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Kai and SecurityScorecard are both filed under Threat intelligence.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Kai's primary category is AI SOC analysts; SecurityScorecard's is Third-party risk and security ratings.
  • Kai is also filed under External attack surface management.
  • Kai lists Kai Autonomous Defense Platform, Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Kai Watch and AI-native SAST. SecurityScorecard lists TITAN AI, TITAN Assess, TITAN MAX, ChatSSC and RespondAI.
  • Kai is headquartered in San Jose, United States. SecurityScorecard is headquartered in New York, United States.
  • SecurityScorecard was founded in 2013.
  • Kai is privately held.

What it sells: Kai

What Kai Autonomous Defense Platform does[4][13]
The Kai Autonomous Defense Platform executes the exposure lifecycle end to end without human handoffs. Kai aggregates findings from existing security and IT systems, determines reachability and exploitability, discards what cannot be exploited, attaches evidence to what survives, and then remediates. Kai agents interrogate CMDB, endpoint, cloud, identity, scanning, and code systems, then rebuild each asset record from the evidence they find.
What Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) does[7]
Kai runs all five phases, then adds two more: it executes the assigned fix immediately, and it watches exposed assets with targeted detection rules until remediated. Auto-remediation sits at phase six, where Kai takes immediate action once a fix is assigned.
What Kai Watch does[7]
Kai Watch continuously monitors telemetry to identify active exploitation. Kai Watch deploys validated detection rules to contain risk across the environment while fixes are in progress. Kai Watch is part of the detection phase, which Kai places at phase seven once remediation is underway.
What AI-native SAST does[15]
Kai is releasing an AI-native SAST capability in preview for select customers. Kai applies AI-native reachability analysis from the start, combining static analysis with runtime behavior to determine whether a finding is actually exploitable before it reaches a human. Kai validated each finding by automatically generating exploits and running them in an out-of-band non-production environment.

What it sells: SecurityScorecard

What TITAN AI does[3][4][5][6][8][13][17][18]
TITAN AI unifies intelligent automation, predictive insight, and vendor interactions. TITAN AI owns the data and runs the workflow natively. TITAN AI connects to existing tools, maps every vendor relationship, and runs continuous discovery with coordinated multi-vendor response. The platform provides always-on third-party monitoring to detect vulnerabilities, threat actor behavior, and nth-party relationships across entire ecosystems.
What TITAN Assess does[19]
TITAN Assess automates both sides of the questionnaire, answering what customers send and managing what is sent to vendors. Questionnaires can be imported or started from SIG or CAIQ Lite and sent to one vendor or an entire portfolio with a single passwordless link. An agent checks every answer against the customer's policy, verifies the vendor's evidence, and calculates a risk score automatically. Customers can publish a Trust Page with verified security information, SOC 2 reports, and policies.
What TITAN MAX does[20]
A standard SecurityScorecard subscription provides the platform for the customer to manage, while TITAN MAX is a managed service built on the SecurityScorecard platform. TITAN MAX is primarily delivered by certified partners. TITAN MAX operates a Vendor Risk Operations Center (VROC) for continuous vendor security monitoring. TITAN MAX works directly with vendors to resolve issues and improve their cybersecurity posture.
What ChatSSC does[16]
SecurityScorecard provides ChatSSC for quick answers about SecurityScorecard data. ChatSSC helps users pinpoint the most critical issues to fix, understand historical score changes, and gain insights into past breaches.
What RespondAI does[19]
RespondAI uses a centralized Knowledge Base to draft answers. RespondAI combines generative AI with a team of certified human reviewers. Customers can import Excel, Word, or PDF questionnaires.

Questions about Kai and SecurityScorecard

What do Kai and SecurityScorecard sell?
Kai sells Kai Autonomous Defense Platform, Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Kai Watch and AI-native SAST. SecurityScorecard sells TITAN AI, TITAN Assess, TITAN MAX, ChatSSC and RespondAI.
Are Kai and SecurityScorecard in the same category?
They share Threat intelligence. Kai's primary category is AI SOC analysts and SecurityScorecard's is Third-party risk and security ratings.
Where are Kai and SecurityScorecard headquartered?
Kai is headquartered in San Jose, United States. SecurityScorecard is headquartered in New York, United States.
When were Kai and SecurityScorecard founded?
SecurityScorecard was founded in 2013.
Who owns Kai and SecurityScorecard?
Kai is privately held.
Who are Kai and SecurityScorecard sold to?
From its own pages, the company sells mainly to enterprises. From its own pages, the company addresses CISOs and risk and compliance professionals.
What have Kai and SecurityScorecard announced recently?
July 29, 2026: Kai announced findings from its 2026 State of Autonomous Defense Report and made its Auto Remediation capability available. September 9, 2026: SecurityScorecard announced that Sarah Walker has joined the company as President, working alongside its founder and CEO.

About Kai

Kai is an AI company that sells the Kai Autonomous Defense Platform, an agentic AI platform for cyber asset management, application security, infrastructure vulnerability management, and detection engineering. Kai says its platform is an agentic AI platform built from first principles to do security work end-to-end: gathering exhaustive context, continuously assessing risk, prioritizing action, and reducing risk. Kai describes a single agentic AI platform that does the actual security work autonomously and continuously across threat intelligence, exposure management, detection, response and beyond. Kai says its platform continuously analyzes threat intelligence, vulnerabilities, asset context, and other sources, correlates risk across the environment in real time, and can execute remediation actions.[1][6][13][14]

Kai says AI-enabled attacks arrive faster and in volumes no queue can absorb. Kai says each step of the response belongs to a different tool and team, so the exposure waits at every handoff. Kai describes a gap in which an exposure is confirmed as real and then sits exposed while a team works out how to fix it. Kai describes approved fixes that wait in a ticket queue instead of shipping. Kai says it runs every step on one platform at machine speed. Kai describes its auto-remediation as validating before acting and showing its work at every step.[4][7]

The Kai Autonomous Defense Platform executes the exposure lifecycle end to end without human handoffs. Kai aggregates findings from existing security and IT systems, determines reachability and exploitability, discards what cannot be exploited, attaches evidence to what survives, and then remediates. Kai remediates by writing the change, routing it to the accountable owner, or deploying a compensating detection when a patch is blocked. Kai agents interrogate CMDB, endpoint, cloud, identity, scanning, and code systems, then rebuild each asset record from the evidence they find. Kai writes the change itself and, where a maintenance window blocks the patch, specifies the configuration change to the controls the customer already runs. Kai says some fixes wait on a maintenance window, a vendor patch, or a release, and the exposure stays open the whole time. Kai says it builds detection for the customer environment.[4][9]

Kai says Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) promised a repeatable path from exposure to fix: scope, discover, prioritize, validate, mobilize. Kai runs all five phases, then adds two more: it executes the assigned fix immediately, and it watches exposed assets with targeted detection rules until remediated. Auto-remediation sits at phase six, where Kai takes immediate action once a fix is assigned instead of letting it wait in a queue. Kai executes an assigned fix directly for the majority of confirmed findings. For the complex few findings that need human review, Kai builds the complete remediation plan, identifies the right owner, and stages it for approval. Kai Watch continuously monitors telemetry to identify active exploitation and deploys validated detection rules to contain risk across the environment while fixes are in progress.[4][7]

Kai determines which vulnerabilities are truly reachable and exploitable, then uses AI-native prioritization to rank them by actual risk. While remediation is underway, Kai creates and deploys detection rules to identify exploitation attempts in real time. Kai is releasing an AI-native SAST capability in preview for select customers. In its SAST capability, Kai applies AI-native reachability analysis from the start, combining static analysis with runtime behavior to determine whether a finding is actually exploitable before it reaches a human. Kai validated each finding by automatically generating exploits and running them in an out-of-band non-production environment.[10][15]

Kai was founded by the creators of the category-defining companies Claroty and SecurityMatters. Galina Antova and Dr. Damiano Bolzoni previously built Claroty and SecurityMatters. Kai emerged from stealth with $125 million in funding. Kai says dozens of design partners iterated with it until the vision became something real. Kai says it has delivered autonomous security work across multiple use cases for Fortune 500 and Global 1000 enterprises across multiple verticals. Kai announced the appointment of Alfredo Hickman as Chief Information Security Officer. Kai Cyber Inc. lists its address as 90 Skyport Drive, Suite 200, San Jose, CA 95110.[1][2][4][6][7][9][10][13][14]

Kai on the record

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Kai full record

  1. [1]kai.securityKai · kai.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Kai emerges from stealth with 125m powering machine speed defense to outpace ai enabled adversaries 302708978Kai via PR Newswire · prnewswire.co.uk · published March 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]kai.securityKai Cyber Inc. · kai.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Kai Autonomous Defense Platform | End-to-End Agentic Risk ReductionKai · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]PlatformKai · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]We Aren’t Building a Better Tool. We’re Rebuilding Security. | Kai AI-Native Autonomous Defense PlatformKai · published March 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Continuous Threat Exposure Management | Solutions at KaiKai · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Our Story & Manifesto | Kai Agentic AI PlatformKai · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cyber Asset Attack Surface ManagementKai · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Mythos | Solutions at KaiKai · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Kai Emerges from Stealth with $125M, Powering Machine-Speed Defense to Outpace AI-Enabled AdversariesKai · published March 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Kai Appoints Alfredo Hickman as CISO to Usher in the Future of AI-Driven Security | Kai Autonomous Defense PlatformKai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]New Research from Kai: UK CISOs Face a Widening AI Security Gap as Attackers Gain the Advantage | Kai Autonomous Defense PlatformKai · published September 21, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Joining Kai as CISO: Rebuilding Security for the AI Era | Kai Autonomous Defense PlatformKai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Kai product update: AI-native SAST and deeper vulnerability validation through membership in Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program | Kai Autonomous Defense PlatformKai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]New Research from Kai: CISOs Say AI Is Accelerating Cyber Threats, Driving the Shift to Machine-Led SecurityPR Newswire · published July 29, 2026 · Tier A

SecurityScorecard full record

  1. [1]securityscorecard.comSecurityScorecard · securityscorecard.com · published July 17, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Securityscorecard partners with sequoia in 125 million series a funding round 300054965SecurityScorecard via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published March 24, 2015 · Tier A
  3. [3]SecurityScorecard | Supply Chain & Third-Party Risk PlatformSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]TPRM & GRC Tools for Risk and Compliance TeamsSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]TPRM for CISOs | Supply Chain Risk ManagementSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Supply Chain Cybersecurity Platform | SecurityScorecard TITAN AISecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]DORA Compliance for Third-Party ICT Risk ManagementSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Cybersecurity for IT Professionals | SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Hospitality Gaming - SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Critical Infrastructure - SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]SecurityScorecard Names Sarah Walker President as Company Expands Its Mission for the AI EraSecurityScorecard · published September 9, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]SecurityScorecard Names Sarah Walker President as Company Expands Its Mission for the AI EraBusiness Wire · published September 9, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]SecurityScorecard Acquires Driftnet to Power Real-Time, Threat-Informed Third-Party Risk ManagementSecurityScorecard · published May 14, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]SecurityScorecard Appoints Former Government of Canada Senior Official for Cyber Security Sami Khoury to Public Sector Advisory BoardSecurityScorecard · published August 26, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]SecurityScorecard Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier C
  16. [16]TITAN AI Agents | Accelerated Risk Intelligence | SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]TITAN AI Workflow | Vendor Compliance Monitoring & Supply Chain VisibilitySecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Supply Chain Threat Intelligence | SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]Titan Assess | AI-Powered Questionnaire AutomationSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]TITAN MAX | Managed Security & Third-Party Risk ServicesSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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