HiddenLayer is an AI security company focused on securing agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications across the full AI lifecycle. Its core offering, the HiddenLayer AI Security Platform, helps organizations discover AI assets, secure model supply chains, simulate attacks, and protect production systems at runtime.
Built around adversarial AI research, HiddenLayer combines platform software and professional services to address risks such as shadow AI, model compromise, prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe agent behavior, and governance gaps. HiddenLayer serves organizations that need to adopt AI with stronger visibility, control, and resilience across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
HiddenLayer delivers a purpose-built security layer for AI environments that spans discovery, governance, pre-deployment inspection, adversarial testing, and runtime defense. Its capabilities are designed to work across models, agents, pipelines, and applications without requiring customers to expose training data, model weights, prompts, or sensitive business data.
Beyond the platform itself, HiddenLayer provides professional services to help organizations assess AI risk, red team systems, and build internal AI security skills. The company also emphasizes operational fit, with native integrations across major cloud environments and support for existing CI/CD, MLOps, data pipeline, API gateway, and SIEM/SOAR workflows, including Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel.
Products and Services
- HiddenLayer AI Security Platform: Unified platform for securing agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications across discovery, supply chain security, attack simulation, runtime protection, and governance.
- AI Discovery: Discovers AI assets across cloud environments, repositories, endpoints, and pipelines to build a living inventory, detect shadow AI, and classify ownership and risk.
- AI Supply Chain Security: Validates AI models before deployment by inspecting model files and artifacts for tampering, malware, vulnerabilities, lineage, and other supply chain risks.
- AI Attack Simulation: Automates adversarial testing of AI systems to uncover weaknesses, validate security policies, harden prompts, and continuously test agentic and generative workflows.
- AI Runtime Security: Monitors and protects AI applications in production with real-time detection and enforcement for prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, malicious outputs, and unsafe agent actions.
- AI Red Teaming: Expert-led service that emulates real-world attacks against AI applications to identify exploitable weaknesses and provide remediation guidance.
- AI Risk Assessment: Assessment service that evaluates exposure across AI assets, data pipelines, model lineage, third-party models, and governance requirements, with prioritized recommendations.
- AI Security Training & Certification: Hands-on training and certification focused on AI-specific threats, adversarial testing techniques, prompt hardening, and continuous validation practices.
- HiddenLayer Model Scanner: Model scanning offering for proprietary, open-source, and vendor models that identifies malware, backdoors, vulnerabilities, integrity issues, and hidden supply chain risk before production use.
Target Customers
HiddenLayer targets enterprises, government organizations, and regulated environments that are deploying AI into business-critical workflows. Its messaging is especially aligned to organizations that need stronger governance, compliance support, and protection for proprietary models, sensitive data, and autonomous systems.
The company speaks to CISOs, AI leaders, application developers, and the security, MLOps, and data science teams responsible for building and operating AI. HiddenLayer has dedicated positioning for financial services, technology companies, and U.S. federal and public-sector environments, where AI risk, operational resilience, and auditability are high priorities.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: HiddenLayer is available through AWS Marketplace and provides native AWS integrations to help secure Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Agents, AgentCore deployments, Amazon SageMaker models, and model-serving endpoints.
- Azure Marketplace: HiddenLayer has Azure Marketplace presence with offerings including HiddenLayer AI Detection and Response and HiddenLayer Model Scanner, and it also supports Azure-based AI security workflows through its Microsoft ecosystem integrations.
- Google Cloud Platform: HiddenLayer states availability across Google Cloud marketplace channels and supports native GCP integration as part of its multi-cloud AI discovery and protection approach.
Key People
- Christopher “Tito” Sestito: Chairman of the Board, CEO & Co-Founder
- Tanner Burns: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
- Jim Ballard: Co-founder & CIO
- Jacob Rideout: Chief Technology Officer
- Mike Bruchanski: Chief Product Officer
- Chelsea Strong: Chief Revenue Officer
- Malcolm Harkins: Chief Security & Trust Officer
- Jeremiah Gibber: Chief Marketing Officer
- Tom Bonner: SVP of Research
- Connor McCune: Chief of Staff
- Travis Ryan: VP, Engineering
- Jeff Music: VP, Operations
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
- Employees: Approximately 150-170
- Annual Revenue: $35M-$45M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Privately held
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM) — Representative Vendor. 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors for AI Security — Cool Vendor.
