Cloud safety large Zscaler on Monday introduced the acquisition of AI safety firm SPLX.
Based in 2023, SPLX has developed options designed to safe AI chatbots, brokers, fashions, and workflows.
The corporate offers AI asset discovery and threat evaluation, and automatic AI purple teaming and vulnerability remediation capabilities. It additionally affords runtime guardrail, menace inspection, immediate hardening, and governance options.
SPLX experience and know-how allows Zscaler to broaden the capabilities of its Zero Belief Trade platform.
Monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
SPLX (also called SplxAI) has raised $9 million in funding, together with $7 million in a seed spherical introduced in March 2025.
“By combining SPLX’s know-how with the intelligence of the Zscaler Zero Belief Trade and its native knowledge safety that classifies, governs, and prevents lack of delicate knowledge throughout prompts, fashions, and outputs, Zscaler will safe the complete AI lifecycle on one platform,” stated Jay Chaudhry, CEO and founding father of Zscaler.
Zscaler in recent times additionally acquired Purple Canary for $675 million, Avalor for $350 million, and AirGap.Commercial. Scroll to proceed studying.
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