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Pangea vs WitnessAI

Pangea sells an AI Security Platform that Pangea says helps security teams secure AI from cloud to code. WitnessAI sells an AI security and governance platform that brings humans and agents under one platform. CISO Tribune files both under AI firewalls and guardrails. 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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Pangea vs WitnessAI: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
PangeaPangea sells an AI Security Platform that Pangea says helps security teams secure AI from cloud to code.pangea.cloudWitnessAIWitnessAI sells an AI security and governance platform that brings humans and agents under one platform.witness.ai
What it sells
  • AI Detection & Response[1][3][5]Gives security teams a view of AI activity across their organization, with policy enforcement and response actions.
  • Observe[6][11]Finds and catalogs AI applications, agents and MCP servers, and visualizes AI conversations and agentic activity.
  • Control[1][5][6][7][10][11]Governs what AI agents and employees can do, routes prompts to models based on risk or purpose, and generates audit trails.
  • Protect[1][5][6][8][11]Applies runtime security controls and content guardrails intended to block prompt injection and jailbreak attempts and filter harmful responses.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesMountain View, United States[4]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2023[3]
Ownership and funding
Owned by CrowdStrike since 2025[1][2][4][6]Privately held[2][13]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • December 15, 2025CrowdStrike made its Falcon AI Detection and Response module generally available, built on its acquisition of AI security startup Pangea.[6]
Not stated on its pages
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen October 27, 2026[4]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[13]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Pangea sells mainly to security teams that want to secure AI from cloud to code. Pangea describes its collectors as covering cloud workloads, employee endpoints, and homegrown AI applications. Pangea says organizations can protect workforce AI use and ship secure AI applications faster. Its case study describes a unified security framework for AI applications built on the platform.From its own pages, the company sells mainly to enterprises, saying they need security and governance that extends from humans to agents. It addresses employee use of AI, citing risks around sensitive data, compliance, and shadow AI. It also addresses AI agents, which it describes as connecting to tools, accessing data, and taking actions on behalf of employees.
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November 2, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Pangea and WitnessAI are both filed under AI firewalls and guardrails.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Pangea's primary category is AI model and agent security; WitnessAI's is Workforce AI usage security.
  • WitnessAI is also filed under AI governance.
  • Pangea lists AI Detection & Response. WitnessAI lists Observe, Control and Protect.
  • WitnessAI is headquartered in Mountain View, United States.
  • WitnessAI was founded in 2023.
  • Pangea is owned by CrowdStrike, since 2025. WitnessAI is privately held.

What it sells: Pangea

What AI Detection & Response does[1][3][5]
Pangea AI Detection & Response is deployed via collectors that integrate with existing tools and infrastructure. It gives security teams a picture of AI activity, AI threats and policy violations, and an audit trail to investigate them.

Questions about Pangea and WitnessAI

What do Pangea and WitnessAI sell?
Pangea sells AI Detection & Response. WitnessAI sells Observe, Control and Protect.
Are Pangea and WitnessAI in the same category?
They share AI firewalls and guardrails. Pangea's primary category is AI model and agent security and WitnessAI's is Workforce AI usage security.
Where are Pangea and WitnessAI headquartered?
WitnessAI is headquartered in Mountain View, United States.
When were Pangea and WitnessAI founded?
WitnessAI was founded in 2023.
Who owns Pangea and WitnessAI?
Pangea is owned by CrowdStrike, since 2025. WitnessAI is privately held.
Who are Pangea and WitnessAI sold to?
From its own pages, Pangea sells mainly to security teams that want to secure AI from cloud to code. From its own pages, the company sells mainly to enterprises, saying they need security and governance that extends from humans to agents.
What have Pangea and WitnessAI announced recently?
December 15, 2025: CrowdStrike made its Falcon AI Detection and Response module generally available, built on its acquisition of AI security startup Pangea.

About Pangea

Pangea sells an AI Security Platform that Pangea says helps security teams secure AI from cloud to code. Pangea's AI Security Platform helps security teams protect employee AI use and ship secure AI apps fast.[5]

Pangea says it offers unified visibility into all AI activity, from workforce tool usage to in-app AI. Pangea says security teams get the oversight to proactively manage risk, so that every prompt, response, and action is traceable and auditable. Pangea says organizations can protect workforce AI use, enable secure AI innovation, and ship secure AI applications faster with AI Detection & Response and its set of AI guardrails.

Pangea stops LLM security threats ranging from prompt injection to sensitive data leakage. The platform deploys via gateways, browser plugins, and into applications with just a few lines of code. Pangea provides a common AI security framework that can intercept AI usage anywhere in the enterprise from cloud workloads to employee devices to applications. Collectors can be deployed at any location in the enterprise with just a few clicks or a few lines of code.[5]

Pangea AI Detection & Response, called AIDR, is deployed via collectors that integrate with existing tools and infrastructure. Pangea says AIDR gives security teams a holistic picture of AI activity across their organization, AI threats and policy violations, and an audit trail to investigate them. Pangea collectors integrate with infrastructure from cloud workloads, to employee endpoints, to homegrown AI applications. Pangea AIDR console provides a central command center where teams can see real time AI activity and configure policy and response actions. Teams can validate and investigate AI alerts, which can be exported to SIEM environments.[5]

Organizations can track GenAI application and model coverage, identify shadow AI, enforce approved model policies, measure token consumption and support compliance reporting. Pangea says AIDR detects and blocks AI-specific attacks like prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, and malicious content insertion in real-time in over 100 languages. Pangea also lets organizations create custom access rules based on users, LLM or application attributes, and add prompt detectors to redact PII, block malicious prompts, and report on filtered topics.[5]

Pangea's data redaction and file sanitization prevented sensitive data disclosure to backend AI models, according to a published case study. Pangea Labs has published a research report on an attack vector abusing legal disclaimers to trigger prompt injections capable of bypassing malware detection. Pangea researchers have also developed a prompt injection taxonomy. Oliver Friedrichs is Founder and CEO of Pangea, and he discusses the four primary attack vectors targeting enterprise AI applications on the Detection at Scale podcast. Pangea is located at 636 Ramona St, Palo Alto, CA 94301.[3]

Pangea on the record

Sources

Pangea full record

  1. [1]Pangea | Security Guardrails for AI ApplicationsPangea · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Crowdstrike reports third quarter fiscal year 2026 financialCrowdStrike Holdings · ir.crowdstrike.com · published December 2, 2025 · Tier A
  3. [3]CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR: AI Detection & ResponseCrowdStrike · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Pangea.app Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]AI Detection & ResponsePangea · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]CrowdStrike Debuts AI Detection And Response: 5 Big Things To KnowCRN · published December 15, 2025 · Tier B

WitnessAI full record

  1. [1]Unified AI Security and Governance Platform | WitnessAIWitnessAI · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Witnessai raises 58 million for global expansion and announces new ways to secure ai agents 302659319WitnessAI via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published January 13, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Witnessai launches with guardrails for aiDark Reading · darkreading.com · published May 21, 2024 · Tier B
  4. [4]WitnessaiAppSec Santa · appsecsanta.com · published April 3, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]Scaling AI Security with WitnessAI - WitnessAIWitnessAI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Security Platform | Enterprise AI Governance | WitnessAIWitnessAI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]WitnessAI 2.0 Delivers New Regulatory Compliance Capabilities to Support Safe AI Adoption - WitnessAIWitnessAI · published April 30, 2025 · Tier A
  8. [8]Ensuring Compliance with the EU AI Act - WitnessAIWitnessAI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]WitnessAI Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance - WitnessAIWitnessAI · published October 21, 2025 · Tier A
  10. [10]WitnessAI Joins ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance - WitnessAIWitnessAI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]TENEX.AI and WitnessAI Partner to Deliver Managed Security and Compliance Services for Enterprise AI - WitnessAIWitnessAI · published June 17, 2025 · Tier A
  12. [12]How Security Leaders Prove ROI and Reduce Risk - WitnessAIWitnessAI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]WitnessAI Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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