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Obsidian Security vs Zenity

Obsidian Security sells real-time visibility, continuous governance and runtime enforcement over agents, identities and integrations across third-party apps. 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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  • Obsidian Security
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Obsidian Security vs Zenity: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security sells real-time visibility, continuous governance and runtime enforcement over agents, identities and integrations across third-party apps.obsidiansecurity.comZenityZenity sells an AI agent security platform built to govern how agents behave, not just what they say or generate.zenity.io
What it sells
  • Continuous GovernanceChecks each requirement, written once, in each connected app that exposes the data it needs.
  • 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.
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Headquarters
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Founded
Not stated on its pages2021[2]
Ownership and funding
Privately held[1]Privately held[3][6][17]
Named customers
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Recent news
  • August 4, 2026Obsidian Security said it raised $85 million in a Series D funding round that valued the company at $1.1 billion.[15]
  • 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
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Obsidian Security sells to security teams that must defend actions by identities they can barely enumerate, across apps they did not build, on infrastructure they do not control. Obsidian Security describes security teams at large financial services and technology companies adopting its product to detect account takeovers, SaaS threats and privilege misuse. Obsidian Security addresses enterprises whose data lives in third-party enterprise apps they do not own. Obsidian Security addresses organisations whose employees connect AI agents to business apps through MCP. Obsidian Security addresses organisations where each team picks its own AI agent tool.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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Where they overlap

  • Obsidian Security and Zenity are both filed under AI model and agent security.
  • Both are privately held.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Obsidian Security's primary category is SaaS security posture; Zenity's is AI model and agent security.
  • Obsidian Security is also filed under Workforce AI usage security and Identity threat detection and response. Zenity is also filed under AI governance.
  • Obsidian Security lists Continuous Governance. Zenity lists AI Observability, AI Security Posture Management (AISPM), Boundaries, AI Detection and Response (AIDR) and Zenity Security Assessment Hub.
  • Zenity was founded in 2021.

What it sells: Obsidian Security

What Continuous Governance does
The control model includes mappings to NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Supported controls are checked continuously, and changes are shown. Fixes are routed through Jira, ServiceNow, and other supported tools.

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 Obsidian Security and Zenity

What do Obsidian Security and Zenity sell?
Obsidian Security sells Continuous Governance. Zenity sells AI Observability, AI Security Posture Management (AISPM), Boundaries, AI Detection and Response (AIDR) and Zenity Security Assessment Hub.
Are Obsidian Security and Zenity in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Obsidian Security's primary category is SaaS security posture and Zenity's is AI model and agent security.
When were Obsidian Security and Zenity founded?
Zenity was founded in 2021.
Who owns Obsidian Security and Zenity?
Obsidian Security is privately held. Zenity is privately held.
Who are Obsidian Security and Zenity sold to?
From its own pages, Obsidian Security sells to security teams that must defend actions by identities they can barely enumerate, across apps they did not build, on infrastructure they do not control. Zenity describes a global financial services firm and a global asset manager as organizations that write policy rules for agents.
What have Obsidian Security and Zenity announced recently?
August 4, 2026: Obsidian Security said it raised $85 million in a Series D funding round that valued the company at $1.1 billion. September 23, 2026: Zenity was named a Market Shaper in Gartner's inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security.

About Obsidian Security

Obsidian Security sells real-time visibility, continuous governance and runtime enforcement over agents, identities and integrations across third-party apps. Obsidian Security provides guardrails and real-time controls for AI agents that need access to third-party apps. The Obsidian platform turns billions of signals across business critical applications into security intelligence to protect users, agents, and data. Obsidian Security collects and connects third-party app and AI configurations, user activity, real-world threat signals, and browser telemetry.[3][4][13]

Obsidian Security says enterprise data lives in Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow and 35K+ third-party enterprise apps that customers do not own. Obsidian Security says non-human identities now outnumber people inside the enterprise application estate. Obsidian Security says every AI application and agent connected to an enterprise inherits the permissions and trust misconfigurations that already existed in enterprise applications. Obsidian Security says vibe-coded workflows connect straight into Salesforce, Snowflake, Workday, and Slack, often before anyone has reviewed them. Obsidian Security spent years mapping every identity, permission, and data flow across third-party enterprise applications. Obsidian Security gives customers visibility into what is connected, controls to enforce what is allowed, and clarity on what needs to change.[3][5]

Obsidian Security has over 200 integrations into SaaS and AI applications that pull posture and activity data. The Obsidian browser extension captures real-time user and AI agent activity. Obsidian Security normalizes every human and non-human identity, entitlement, access, and action and connects them in a knowledge graph. The Obsidian Knowledge Graph maps the relationships between identities, permissions, and actions. Obsidian Security layers configuration, policy, and ownership data together to surface misconfigurations and privilege overlaps. Obsidian Security builds machine learning baselines from real enterprise behavior, refined by what it learns from actual incidents. Obsidian Security normalizes and correlates 29+ billion events from third-party applications every month and feeds them back into the platform. Obsidian Security builds detections from how attackers acted across 500+ real breach responses with DFIR firms. When one customer identifies and removes a risky integration or access pattern, Obsidian Security shares that signal automatically across every environment it protects. Obsidian Security provides out-of-the-box detection rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and machine learning models based on real incident data. Obsidian Security integrates with SIEM and SOAR platforms for automated workflows. Obsidian Security provides an AI extension of the security team that explains rules, triages threats, and manages exceptions.[4][6][7][8][13]

Obsidian Security centralizes AI agent policy and enforces it at runtime across coding agents, agent platforms, MCP connections, and existing gateways. Obsidian Security agent policies use who the agent acts for, that person's employment status, and the team's data labels to tell a routine action from a risky one. Obsidian Security agent policies hold or block only the agent actions that match their conditions, and tool calls that match no policy proceed. Obsidian Security lets teams test each policy against real agent traffic before it stops anything. Obsidian Security says employees can connect AI agents to apps such as Salesforce, Snowflake, Slack, and Google Drive through MCP. The Obsidian proxy evaluates MCP traffic at each step of a session, including the app the agent can reach, the records it can list, and each tool call. The Obsidian proxy maps each MCP session to the person who started it, their account in the app, and the workspace, org, or instance the session reaches. With the Obsidian proxy, agents receive a proxy-issued token, and each user authorizes the app through the vendor's own consent flow.[5][9][10]

Obsidian Security monitors every new and existing MCP server in an environment with one dashboard. Obsidian Security shows MCP servers across AI agent platforms such as n8n and Microsoft Copilot. Obsidian Security raises risk alerts when agents connect to MCP servers without authentication. Obsidian Security helps teams spot unvetted or suspicious MCP servers and remove them.[11]

Obsidian Security maps supported identity, permission, configuration, and activity data to one control model. Obsidian Security provides mappings to NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Obsidian Security continuously checks supported controls and shows what changed. Obsidian Security attaches the available identity, permission, and ownership context to each finding so teams can find the cause and route the fix. Obsidian Security routes fixes through Jira, ServiceNow, and other supported tools. Obsidian Security fixes misconfigurations, removes high-risk integrations, and stops malicious activity in third-party apps. Obsidian Security detects and removes risky or unauthorized AI agent actions in third-party apps. Obsidian Security pairs inline defenses against credential and session theft with alerts for investigation and response. Obsidian Security monitors configuration drift and spots violations to automate compliance reporting. Obsidian Security discovers app sprawl, including unsanctioned AI and shadow SaaS. Obsidian Security offers coverage for organisations of up to 1K users.[12][13][14]

Obsidian Security committed to securing identity and SaaS apps, which it describes as a new attack surface that nobody was watching. Security teams at large financial services and technology companies adopted Obsidian Security to detect account takeovers, SaaS threats and privilege misuse. Obsidian Security is backed by IVP, Norwest, and GV. Obsidian Security announced an $85M Series D led by Crescent Cove Advisors.[2][5][7][11][12][13]

Obsidian Security on the record

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Obsidian Security full record

  1. [1]obsidiansecurity.comObsidian Security · obsidiansecurity.com · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Unlocking ai potential securelyObsidian Security · obsidiansecurity.com · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Secure AI. Fearless Innovation. | ObsidianObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]The Obsidian Security PlatformObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Obsidian Security – Who We AreObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]The Data Behind Better SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Network EffectsObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Automate Third-Party Application ComplianceObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Runtime Policy Decision Engine for AI Agents | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]MCP Security Proxy for AI Agents | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]MCP Security: Audit and Control Every MCP ServerObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Continuous Third-Party App Governance | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Third-Party Application Security | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Flexible SaaS Security Pricing | ObsidianObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Obsidian Security raises funding at $1.1 billion valuation on AI security demand | ReutersReuters · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B

Zenity full record

  1. [1]AI Agent Security and Governance | Zenity AI Security PlatformZenity · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Zenity announces strategic investment led by m12Zenity · zenity.io · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Zenity raises 38m series b funding round to secure agentic aiZenity · zenity.io · published October 29, 2024 · Tier A
  4. [4]AI Agent Security & Governance Platform for the Enterprise | ZenityZenity · undated page, accessed October 30, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]AI Observability | Zenity AI Security PlatformZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Agent Security | Model Context Protocol (MCP) | ZenityZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]AI Security Posture Management | Zenity AI Security PlatformZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Runtime Boundaries | Zenity AI Security PlatformZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI Detection and Response (AIDRZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Agentic Identity & Access Management: Zenity AI Security PlatformZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Securing Financial Services AI | Zenity, Microsoft & SlalomZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Company | Zenity | Secure AI Agents EverywhereZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Zenity Security Assessment Hub | Zenity | Secure AI Agents EverywhereZenity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  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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