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Pangea vs Zenity

Pangea sells an AI Security Platform that Pangea says helps security teams secure AI from cloud to code. 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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Pangea vs Zenity: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
PangeaPangea sells an AI Security Platform that Pangea says helps security teams secure AI from cloud to code.pangea.cloudZenityZenity sells an AI agent security platform built to govern how agents behave, not just what they say or generate.zenity.io
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.
  • 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
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Founded
Not stated on its pages2021[2]
Ownership and funding
Owned by CrowdStrike since 2025[1][2][4][6]Privately held[3][6][17]
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]
  • 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
  • G2: listed, seen October 27, 2026[4]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • 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.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

  • AI model and agent security is the primary category of both Pangea and Zenity.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Pangea is also filed under AI firewalls and guardrails. Zenity is also filed under AI governance.
  • Pangea lists AI Detection & Response. 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.
  • Pangea is owned by CrowdStrike, since 2025. Zenity is privately held.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Pangea and Zenity under AI model and agent security as their primary category, and each sells a product called AI Detection & Response. Pangea also sits under AI firewalls and guardrails, while Zenity is also filed under AI governance. Pangea's AI Detection & Response is deployed via collectors that integrate with existing tools and infrastructure, and it gives security teams a picture of AI activity, threats and policy violations. Pangea says it detects and blocks attacks such as prompt injection and jailbreak attempts in over 100 languages. Zenity's AI Detection and Response is a runtime layer for AI agents that detects direct and indirect prompt injection and blocks execution before the agent acts.

Its Boundaries engine enforces a rule written once across Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Agentforce, Bedrock, coding agents, and homegrown builds. Pangea describes its collectors as covering cloud workloads, employee endpoints, and homegrown AI applications. Zenity names Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 enterprises among the organizations whose agent deployments it secures, and describes a global financial services firm and a global asset manager.

Pangea is located in Palo Alto, CA, and has been owned by CrowdStrike since 2025. On December 15, 2025, CrowdStrike made its Falcon AI Detection and Response module generally available, built on its acquisition of Pangea. Zenity was founded in 2021 and is privately held. On August 3, 2026, Zenity announced a $125 million Series C round led by Norwest. On September 23, 2026, Zenity was named a Market Shaper in Gartner's inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security.

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.

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 Pangea and Zenity

What do Pangea and Zenity sell?
Pangea sells AI Detection & Response. Zenity sells AI Observability, AI Security Posture Management (AISPM), Boundaries, AI Detection and Response (AIDR) and Zenity Security Assessment Hub.
Are Pangea and Zenity in the same category?
Yes. AI model and agent security is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
When were Pangea and Zenity founded?
Zenity was founded in 2021.
Who owns Pangea and Zenity?
Pangea is owned by CrowdStrike, since 2025. Zenity is privately held.
Who are Pangea and Zenity sold to?
From its own pages, Pangea sells mainly to security teams that want to secure AI from cloud to code. Zenity describes a global financial services firm and a global asset manager as organizations that write policy rules for agents.
What have Pangea and Zenity 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. September 23, 2026: Zenity was named a Market Shaper in Gartner's inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security.

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

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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