NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Tenet is a unified runtime defense for AI agents with real access. It represents a fundamental response to the emergence of a new attack surface in the agentic era: agents are becoming privileged endpoints, and today’s stack can’t observe or stop risky agent actions in real time. While traditional security tools are limited to simple prompt logs, Tenet provides a proactive framework that allows enterprises to discover, investigate, and protect autonomous agents in real-time.

Proven Impact at Scale: Tenet is already operational within Fortune 500 enterprise high-stakes environments, securing live AI agents serving more than 10M people in the US. In recent production deployments, Tenet identified over 7,000 automated attack attempts in a single quarter and neutralized critical “Shadow Behaviors” where agents were manipulated into unauthorized financial exfiltration. Within just one month of deployment, one client saw their overall security score improve from 20% to 88% in 30 days.

Elite Technical Pedigree: Tenet was founded by seasoned security researchers with deep offensive backgrounds across Unit 8200 and Cisco AI Defense. The team includes an Israel Defense Prize recipient and early investors in SentinelOne.

Core Innovation:

Tenet Security is the first Runtime Agent Defense layer built to provide predictable security for unpredictable agents, moving security from “monitoring” to “enforcement”.
-Agent-Side Simulation™ & Predictive Defense: Unlike legacy tools that passively monitor prompts or rely on brittle, hardcoded rules, Tenet stops attacks before they execute. We built the industry’s first Agent-Side Simulation™ engine, fueled by continuous, unique intelligence from Tenet Threat Labs.
-Real-Time Sandboxing: We don’t just map the “black box” of agentic logic—we intercept every tool call and execution path, simulate the outcome in a parallel reality, and deterministically kill hijacked logic before it ever touches your infrastructure.
-Zero-Friction Deployment: We eliminate the need for custom Python checks or proprietary query languages. Tenet provides a latency-optimized, drop-in runtime layer that adapts to model updates instantly, outperforming traditional static guardrails.
-Elite Threat Intelligence: Backed by Tenet Threat Labs, our Pre-Flight Red Teaming bombards your agents in CI/CD with thousands of cutting-edge adversarial attacks, ensuring your production bots are battle-tested against tomorrow’s jailbreaks and lateral movement techniques.

The Outcome: Security teams get absolute control and visibility. Engineering teams stop fixing regex and get back to shipping features. Tenet ensures that as agents become more unpredictable, their security remains predictable.