Zscaler, a leading cloud security company, has acquired SPLX, an innovative AI security pioneer, to enhance its Zero Trust Exchange platform with advanced AI protection capabilities.
The acquisition will integrate shift-left AI asset discovery, automated red teaming, and governance features that enable organizations to secure their AI investments throughout the entire lifecycle from development to deployment.
Addressing the Growing AI Security Challenge
The acquisition comes at a critical time as AI infrastructure investments are projected to exceed $250 billion by the end of 2025.
Organizations are grappling with rapidly expanding attack surfaces and shadow AI sprawl as they adopt artificial intelligence technologies.
Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Zscaler, emphasized that while AI creates enormous value, its full potential can only be realized when properly secured.
By combining SPLX’s technology with Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform and native data protection capabilities, the company aims to secure the entire AI lifecycle on a unified platform.
The growing complexity of AI environments presents significant security challenges. Continuously evolving models, agents, and large language models require ongoing discovery, risk assessment, and remediation.
AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers demand strict guardrails and sophisticated techniques to protect data and AI assets across their lifecycle.
SPLX brings deep expertise in AI red teaming, asset management, threat inspection, prompt hardening, and governance.
These capabilities will create a dedicated, natively integrated layer of AI protection within the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform.
The enhanced platform will offer comprehensive AI asset discovery and risk assessment that extends beyond public generative AI applications and public clouds to include AI models, workflows, code repositories, RAGs, and MCP servers in both public and private deployments.
The integration will provide automated AI red teaming and remediation capabilities, featuring over 5,000 purpose-built and domain-specific attack simulations to identify risks and vulnerabilities from development to production, with real-time remediation.
The platform will also expand Zscaler’s current AI Runtime Guardrails to protect sensitive data and block malicious attacks between AI applications and LLMs, including agentic workflows, while providing deep visibility within development environments.
Kristian Kamber, CEO and co-founder of SPLX, stated that both companies share a vision to confront the vast new attack surface created by rapidly expanding AI infrastructure investments.
The acquisition will bring SPLX’s innovation to one of the most trusted security platforms globally, enabling organizations to secure AI innovation at the pace they are adopting it.
The combined solution will help organizations shift from reactive defense to proactive protection for their AI investments while supporting compliance with governance frameworks.
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