Zscaler, Inc., a leader in cloud security, announced the acquisition of SPLX, an innovative AI-security company. The deal extends Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange™ platform with shift-left AI asset discovery, automated red-teaming and governance capabilities enabling enterprises to secure their AI investments from development through deployment.
“Today marks an important step in advancing Zscaler’s role as the trusted partner helping organizations securely adopt AI,” said Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Zscaler. “AI is creating enormous value, but its full potential can only be realized when it can be secured.
By combining SPLX’s technology with the intelligence of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and its native data protection that classifies, governs, and prevents loss of sensitive data across prompts, models, and outputs, Zscaler will secure the entire AI lifecycle on one platform. This will strengthen our industry leadership and give customers the confidence to safely embrace AI.”
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As artificial-intelligence driven infrastructure investments are forecast to exceed US$250 billion by end 2025, organizations face a rapidly growing attack surface and risks from “shadow AI” sprawl. Continuously evolving models, agents and large language models (LLMs) require constant discovery, risk assessment and remediation and new guardrails are needed to protect AI-assets across their lifecycle.
SPLX brings deep expertise in AI asset-management, threat inspection, red-teaming, prompt-hardening and governance. Its integration into Zscaler’s platform will deliver a dedicated, natively-embedded AI protection layer within the Zero Trust Exchange.
Key capabilities include:
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AI Asset Discovery & Risk Assessment – Extending beyond public generative AI apps and clouds, to include models, workflows, code-repositories, retrieval-augmented generation systems and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in both public and private deployments.
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Automated AI Red-Teaming & Remediation – From development through production, offering 5,000+ domain-specific attack simulations to detect vulnerabilities and deliver real-time remediation.
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AI Runtime Guardrails & Prompt Hardening – Building on Zscaler’s existing guardrails that protect sensitive data and block malicious attacks between AI apps, LLMs and agentic workflows; expanding deep visibility into development environments and automating protections for risky AI assets.
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AI Governance & Compliance – Helping organizations shift from reactive defense to proactive protection of their valuable AI investments, while supporting compliance with governance frameworks.
“Zscaler and SPLX share a vision to confront the vast new attack surface created by rapidly expanding AI infrastructure investments,” said Kristian Kamber, CEO and co-founder of SPLX. “By joining forces, we’ll bring our innovation to one of the most trusted security platforms in the world, securing AI innovation at the speed organizations are adopting it.”