Lakera vs Prompt Security

Lakera is a Zurich-based AI security company founded in 2021 by former Google, Meta, and aerospace engineers. The company provides the Lakera Guard platform, which offers real-time prompt injection prevention, data leakage protection, jailbreak detection, and AI agent security for enterprise generative AI deployments. It operates across workforce AI security, AI agent security, and AI red teaming, with sub-50ms runtime latency and a SaaS-first, API-first architecture. Lakera is the creator of Gandalf, a widely used AI security educational game with over 1 million players and 80M+ prompts collected, which provides a continuously updated threat intelligence database. The company is cited in the OWASP LLM and GenAI Security Landscape Guide 2025, recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Innovation Guide for Generative AI (TRiSM), and had Lakera's CEO join the World Economic Forum 2024 alongside Yann LeCun and others. Named customers include Dropbox and a top-3 US bank.

Prompt Security is a Tel Aviv-based AI security company founded in August 2023 by Itamar Golan (CEO) and Lior Drihem (CTO), both alumni of Israel's elite Unit 8200 with prior experience at Check Point and Orca Security. The company provides an enterprise platform for securing all generative AI interactions — covering employee AI tool usage (shadow AI discovery, data protection), homegrown AI applications (prompt injection defense, output filtering), AI code assistants, and agentic AI security including MCP gateway protection. Prompt Security is a core contributor to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. The company raised $23M prior to its acquisition by SentinelOne, which was completed on September 5, 2025. Prompt Security continues to operate as a standalone platform and product brand within SentinelOne's Singularity platform. CRN named it a 2025 Stellar Startup in Security.