HiddenLayer, the leading AI security company, announced a strategic collaboration with Cohere, a global leader in sovereign enterprise AI, to help organizations securely deploy autonomous, agentic AI at scale. By integrating Cohere’s North platform with HiddenLayer’s AI Security Platform, the partnership establishes a hardened foundation to run business-critical AI agents while maintaining built-in runtime defense against AI-native threats.
The joint release addresses an increasingly complex security barrier for modern chief information security officers (CISOs). As organizations move beyond standard chatbots toward agentic AI systems that independently execute actions and connect to internal APIs, the corporate attack surface expands dramatically. This paradigm shift routinely sparks internal friction between innovation-minded development teams eager to automate high-stakes workflows and corporate security divisions concerned about prompt injection, data exfiltration, model tampering, and malicious tool use.
“Agentic AI dramatically increases the attack surface for enterprises. These systems are highly vulnerable to prompt injection, data exfiltration, and abuse of the tools and systems they’re connected to,” said Chris Sestito, Co-Founder and CEO of HiddenLayer. “Organizations can’t deploy agents at scale without security designed specifically for AI systems and the threats they face. Our collaboration with Cohere secures the AI layer that traditional controls miss, giving customers the confidence to deploy agentic AI in production, not just experiment with it.”
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Protecting Multi-Step Autonomous Systems at Runtime
The integration brings specialized, non-invasive security intelligence directly into the active workflow environments managed by Cohere’s enterprise framework. Rather than relying on rigid static code patches, the combined solution monitors live transactional data streams to detect anomalies and intercept exploits at machine speed.
The unified defensive architecture provides targeted protection across several advanced vector layers:
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Prompt Injection Defense: Instantly screens and filters incoming data blocks to prevent adversarial prompts from hijacking autonomous system instructions.
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Malicious Tool Suppression: Continuously evaluates outbound API requests and function calls to block unauthorized or cascading actions before they reach connected business systems.
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Data Leakage Safeguards: Natively scans model interactions to redact personally identifiable information (PII) and safeguard sensitive corporate intellectual property from unauthorized exposure.
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Continuous Behavioral Auditing: Provides deep, session-level visibility across complex execution paths to log and investigate anomalous multi-step agent behavior.
“Regulated industries and governments are adopting agentic AI, but only when those systems are sovereign, secure, and fully under their control,” added Nic Morales, VP of Customer Experience at Cohere. “North was built for exactly that. Together with HiddenLayer, we’re giving customers a hardened foundation to run agents that take meaningful action across sensitive systems and data. This collaboration enables organizations to move from experimentation to real production deployments with trust.”
Hardened and Proven Through Internal Enterprise Deployment
To validate the strength of the security integration before its public release, HiddenLayer extensively evaluated Cohere‘s North platform against its own strict enterprise standards. Following rigorous testing, HiddenLayer successfully deployed the framework internally for its own workforce, establishing a real-world case study for secure, cross-system agentic automation.
The new secure agentic modules are live and available today for global enterprise and public sector implementation. Corporate security directors, cloud architects, and enterprise AI leaders can review technical integration blueprints, access platform documentation, and sign up for upcoming technical deployment briefings by visiting HiddenLayer’s official digital platform.