Pillar Security specializes in securing AI applications and infrastructure throughout the AI lifecycle, from development to production. The startup has secured $9 million in seed funding to expand its research and development and market commitment.
Shield Capital was a golden venture, leading the funding round with venture companies and other strategic angel investors involved.
Founded in 2023 by Dor Sarig and Ziv Karliner and based in Miami and Tel Aviv, Pillar Security offers end-to-end security throughout the AI lifecycle. The platform is powered by research-driven threat intelligence, helping teams to identify, understand and address security risks with a continuous and automated approach.
“For too long, security has been a reactive after-sales in the face of innovation. This is completely insufficient for the power of AI to transform. As AI has evolved beyond traditional software, data can be run and systems can function autonomously, the security paradigm needs to be fundamentally shifted. Pillar CEO, Shared on LinkedIn.
In fact, a recent Deloitte survey of 1,200 cybersecurity leaders identified key areas of AI-specific risk, such as evasion attacks, data addiction, data privacy and intellectual property leaks, with 77% of respondents expressing great concern about these threats. Additionally, two in five organizations had already experienced AI-related security or privacy cases, one in four of which was malicious.
Pillar seamlessly integrates with existing code repositories, data infrastructure, and AI and machine learning platforms that your team already relies on, automatically maps all AI-related assets across your organization, including models, datasets, prompts, notebooks, and frameworks. The pillar also rigorously tests the AI model and its underlying infrastructure, applications, and the agent layer on which they are built.
In these ways, Pillar deploys customized adaptive guardrails that align with each AI application’s own risk profile and specific business goals, actively prevent obstacles before thwarting operations, and integrates AI and security teams around a common tool set. “We are redefineing the security of applications to match agents and autonomous software in the age of intelligence,” said Salig, speaking at Miami’s recent Israel Tech Week.
The company reports that it is working with leading AI innovators, from Fortune 500 companies to technology companies such as Simarweb, Eleos Health and Avidxchange.
“As agent AI systems are increasingly deployed within the enterprise and embrace the equally fast-growing threat surfaces and hands, Pillar uniquely understands that protecting software in the AI era requires more than gradual improvements. Security and threat intelligence, and former CEO of Riskiq.
Photo at the top of this post: CEO Dor Sarig, co-founders of Pillar Security and CTO ZIV Karliner. Photos provided by Pillar Security
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