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Wallarm AI Control Platform

Review what this vendor says publicly, the security topics those statements may support, what remains unverified, and factual company context. This is not an assessment of product effectiveness or fit.

Company scale

Growth stage
?Growth stageA provider with at least $25M in known funding or at least 51 employees that has not reached the scaled threshold.This is a company-scale signal, not a product-quality rating.

A descriptive band derived from retained public revenue, workforce, ownership, or funding signals.

Company scale is separate from product features, effectiveness, and suitability.
  • 80+ employees
  • Private-company revenue and profitability not sourced

Company context

Private independent company; no acquisition or parent-company claim was found on the reviewed Wallarm-controlled pages

Wallarm reported 80+ engineers, 134% enterprise net revenue retention, and 99% customer production deployment in April 2025; it announced general availability of the AI Control Platform on June 4, 2026

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Vendor statements
19 records
Source-checked records
10
Evaluation requirements
19 in this research model
Unresolved requirements
9

Company intelligence

Who is behind the product

Company facts provide evaluation context. Each signal is kept separate because tenure, workforce, funding, and hiring answer different questions.

FoundedNot stated on the reviewed current Wallarm-controlled company and product pages
HeadquartersNot resolved: Wallarm's current company page says Austin, Texas, while 2026 Wallarm press materials also identify San Francisco, California
OwnershipPrivate independent company; no acquisition or parent-company claim was found on the reviewed Wallarm-controlled pages
Employees80+
Capital and scaleIndependent company

Wallarm

Known funding
Amount not disclosed

Series C · $55M · 2025-07-31

Operating scale
Wallarm reported 80+ engineers, 134% enterprise net revenue retention, and 99% customer production deployment in April 2025; it announced general availability of the AI Control Platform on June 4, 2026
Backing context
$55M Series C led by Toba Capital; Wallarm's current company page also names Toba Capital, Y Combinator, Partech, and other investors
Named investors

Toba Capital · Y Combinator · Partech

Founders and leadership2 people listed
  • Ivan Novikov

    Co-Founder and Board Member

    Current role listed
  • Stepan Ilyin

    Co-Founder

    Current role listed
Operating signalsRead each signal separately

There is no combined company rating. The company-scale label uses stated size thresholds; product features and effectiveness require separate evidence.

Company tenure
Not stated on the reviewed current Wallarm-controlled company and product pages
Workforce scale
80+
Hiring activity
Not displayed

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Open research questions
  • Private-company funding total is not yet supported by a public source.
Company sources and research limits6 linked public sources

Only company facts supported by retained public sources are shown. Missing values remain unknown, and company scale does not establish product effectiveness.

Company sourceWallarm AI Control Platform documentationWallarm documents API Security, AI Hypervisor, Infrastructure Discovery, and API Security Testing as products in an AI and API security control loop.Company sourceWallarm Agentic AI Protection documentationWallarm documents AI-agent payload inspection and MCP-specific access-control, request-verification, and tool-input-schema policies with detection and blocking actions.Company sourceWallarm company pageWallarm's current company page identifies Austin as headquarters and names its investor backing; this conflicts with San Francisco references retained in some 2026 company press materials.Company sourceWallarm Series C announcementWallarm announced a $55M Series C investment led by Toba Capital on July 31, 2025; the announcement does not state total company funding.Company sourceWallarm AI Control Platform launchWallarm announced general availability of its AI Control Platform on June 4, 2026 and described runtime discovery, observation, enforcement, and governance for enterprise AI workloads.Company information sourceWallarm 2024 operating resultsSupports the company facts shown in this profile.

Solution areas

These areas describe how the vendor approaches enterprise AI security. They do not establish product quality or fit.

AI API and web application protectionCore product focusAI application runtime protectionCore product focusAI gateway and tool-connection controlsCore product focusAction-taking agent safeguardsCore product focusAI asset and configuration securityRelated coverageAI data protectionRelated coverage

Buyer context

  • Treat Wallarm as an application programming interface (API)- and runtime-rooted AI security platform, not as an SSE or workforce browser-control provider.
  • Public evidence is strongest for AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) runtime visibility, prompt and payload protection, Model Context Protocol (MCP) method and tool policy, agent-session control, AI software-bill-of-materials evidence, and application programming interface (API)-layer protection.
  • Confirm deployment fit during diligence: AI Hypervisor is documented for Amazon EKS, and the professional-services red-team offering should not be represented as a self-service product capability.

Related frameworks

Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements

11 related frameworks · expand when needed
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Current referenceCSA AI Controls Matrix
Requirements with public support
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References
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Current referenceISO/IEC 42001
Requirements with public support
9
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Current referenceMITRE ATLAS
Requirements with public support
9
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12
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Current referenceNIST AI RMF Playbook
Requirements with public support
9
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13
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Current referenceNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Requirements with public support
9
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12
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39
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Informative referenceOWASP Agentic AI Security Solutions Landscape
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9
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12
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
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9
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
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9
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13
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Current referenceCIS Critical Security Controls
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Informative referenceOWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
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Commercial Metadata
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Evaluation questions

What to verify beyond public claims

These questions come from security requirements with some public support. Use them as starting points for demonstrations, documentation review, customer references, or a buyer-observed pilot.

  1. 01
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Approved AI workspace activity appears with user, workspace or tenant, model or provider, and timestamp.

  2. 02
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Prompt, model, or admin activity can be exported or correlated for the selected approved AI platform.

  3. 03
    Sensitive-data protection for generative AI

    Sensitive prompt, response, or file test data is detected and classified during an AI interaction.

  4. 04
    Sensitive-data protection for generative AI

    A policy redacts, blocks, coaches, or records the sensitive data event before it leaves the approved path.

  5. 05
    Generative AI application security

    A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

  6. 06
    Generative AI application security

    A prompt-injection or unsafe-output test is detected, blocked, or flagged by the guardrail or large language model (LLM) firewall.

  7. 07
    AI model and supply-chain security

    A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.

  8. 08
    AI model and supply-chain security

    A malicious, tampered, unsafe, or policy-violating artifact produces a finding before deployment.

Detailed security-requirement research18 evaluation items · supporting evidence and open research are shown separatelyExpand
Security requirementPublic supportRelated frameworksWhat to verify
AI-feature discovery in business applications

Inventory software as a service (SaaS) applications that embed AI features, expose enterprise data to AI capabilities, or create AI-driven data movement.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

Browser and business-application controls

Apply session-level controls in browser and software as a service (SaaS) workflows, including uploads, downloads, copy/paste, sharing, and identity-aware access decisions.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A session-level policy controls upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission in a browser or software as a service (SaaS) workflow.

Generative AI application security

Protect enterprise-built large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, prompts, application programming interfaces (APIs), model calls, tools, and production runtime behavior.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

AI governance, risk, and compliance

Inventory AI systems and owners, translate policy and regulatory obligations into governed workflows, assess risk, manage approvals and exceptions, and retain audit evidence across the AI lifecycle.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test AI system is registered with owner, intended use, risk tier, lifecycle state, and applicable obligations.

AI assurance and adversarial testing

Test models, applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and agents before release and continuously thereafter using adversarial probes, evaluation suites, attack simulation, and security release gates.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A controlled test campaign exercises an AI model, application, or agent against named AI attack classes.

AI model and supply-chain security

Discover, inventory, scan, validate, and monitor models, datasets, model artifacts, registries, dependencies, and AI development assets for tampering, unsafe serialization, provenance gaps, or malicious content.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.

AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controls

Mediate model, agent, tool, application programming interface (API), connector, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through an enforcement point that applies identity-aware policy, content controls, routing, rate limits, and auditable allow or deny decisions.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A model, agent, tool, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) request passes through a named policy enforcement point.

Non-human identity and service-account security

Inventory, least privilege, credential hygiene, monitoring, and lifecycle management for non-human identities, workloads, service accounts, application programming interface (API) keys, and machine credentials.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test service account, agent identity, or non-human identity appears in inventory with owner and privileges.

AI agent identity and permissions

Register AI agents as accountable identities, bind them to owners and delegating users, authorize task- and tool-level access, issue short-lived credentials, review access, and revoke or suspend agent authority.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test agent is registered with a unique identity, accountable owner, purpose, and permitted resources.

AI coding-agent and workstation security

Discover and govern AI coding agents, integrated development environment (IDE) assistants, command-line agents, skills, hooks, extensions, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, filesystem access, commands, network activity, secrets, and software-supply-chain actions on developer workstations and build environments.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test coding agent and its skills, hooks, extensions, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools appear in an attributable inventory.

Licensing model

Publicly discoverable commercial model such as per user, per seat, per app, per token, per integration, or enterprise platform license.

No supporting claim found
Commercial MetadataCSA AI Controls Matrix

The vendor can map the sourced commercial model to per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, per-integration, or platform packaging.

Public sources

Vendor statements and quoted evidence

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Unapproved AI use discoveryNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for workforce discovery of unmanaged AI tools, accounts, users, and usage.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI-feature discovery in business applicationsNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for AI-feature discovery across the enterprise business-application environment.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI usage monitoringSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Wallarm AI Hypervisor claims capture of outbound AI-workload connections to large language models (LLMs), application programming interfaces (APIs), databases, and third-party services.

captures every outbound connection an AI workload makes on EKS
Controls for unapproved AI useNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for blocking, coaching, redirecting, or containing unapproved AI use.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Sensitive-data protection for generative AISource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Wallarm claims agentic AI payload protection against injection attacks and data leakage.

preventing injection attacks and data leakage
Browser and business-application controlsNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for session-level browser or software as a service (SaaS) controls for employee AI use.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
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Generative AI application securitySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Wallarm claims AI payload inspection policies that detect and block AI-agent attacks.

AI payload inspection mitigation controls
AI governance, risk, and complianceNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for AI inventory, risk, approval, exception, and compliance workflows.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI assurance and adversarial testingNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for AI-specific adversarial testing and release assurance.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI model and supply-chain securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Wallarm AI Hypervisor claims an AI software bill of materials for observed AI workloads.

AI software bill of materials (AI-SBOM)
AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controlsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Wallarm claims Model Context Protocol (MCP) policies that enforce access, validate request parameters, check tool schemas, and block by IP or session.

enforce access policies, validate request parameters, and ensure tool calls conform to the published schema
Action-taking agent monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Wallarm AI Hypervisor claims observation of each AI-agent decision and runtime connection.

Observes every AI agent decision
Agent-to-agent communication securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Wallarm claims access and schema controls for agent-to-Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool handoffs.

ensure tool calls conform to the published schema
Non-human identity and service-account securityNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for non-human identity and machine-credential lifecycle controls.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI agent identity and permissionsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Wallarm AI Hypervisor claims revocation of compromised agent sessions using user identity or trace ID.

revokes compromised AI agent sessions by user identity or trace ID
AI coding-agent and workstation securityNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for coding-agent, integrated development environment (IDE), CLI, workstation, tool, and package-action governance.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI cost and usage controlsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Wallarm claims controls for agent abuse that produces usage and credit overages.

Usage abuse and credits overages
Licensing modelNo supporting claim found

Wallarm AI Control Platform materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for a public per-user, per-app, usage-based, or enterprise-platform commercial model.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI platform contextSource checkedRelated public context only

Wallarm positions its application programming interface (API) and AI controls as external runtime protection deployable across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments.

Deploys wherever your traffic lives — cloud, hybrid, or edge.