Runtime guardrails and AI firewalls · #8 by signal score
Lakera
Runtime guardrails for LLM applications and agents (Lakera Guard) that screen prompts, tool responses, and tool descriptions for injection and data leakage, plus AI red teaming. Acquired by Check Point in 2025.
Acquired by Check Point, announced 2025-09-16, closed 2025-10-22 ($201.8M, per SEC filing). Now sold as Check Point AI Agent Security.
38Signal score / 100
- Capital
- 7.6/35
- Product
- 10/25
- Standards
- 0/20(not yet assessed)
- Momentum
- 20/20
Identity primitives
| Agent as a first-class identity | Not checked |
| On-behalf-of token exchange | Not checked |
| Cross App Access (ID-JAG) | Not checked |
| Asynchronous human approval (CIBA) | Not checked |
| MCP authorization conformance | Not checked |
| Fine-grained authorization | Not checked |
| Short-lived, secretless credentials | Not checked |
| Token vault | Not checked |
| Kill switch | No public claim found |
| Per-action audit chain | No public claim found |
Threats it says it addresses
- ASI01 Agent Goal Hijack
- ASI02 Tool Misuse and Exploitation
- ASI03 Identity and Privilege Abuse
- ASI04 Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
- ASI05 Unexpected Code Execution
- ASI06 Memory and Context Poisoning
- ASI08 Cascading Failures
- ASI09 Human-Agent Trust Exploitation
- ASI10 Rogue Agents
- LLM01 Prompt Injection
- LLM02 Sensitive Information Disclosure
- LLM03 Supply Chain
- LLM04 Data and Model Poisoning
- LLM05 Improper Output Handling
- LLM06 Excessive Agency
- LLM07 System Prompt Leakage
- LLM08 Vector and Embedding Weaknesses
- LLM09 Misinformation
Company
HQ: CH
Funding: $30M disclosed, latest Series A
Product: Lakera Guard
Sources
- Lakera docs: introduction to AI Agent Security (vendor, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Lakera docs: security framework coverage (vendor, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Check Point acquires Lakera to deliver end-to-end AI security for enterprises (press-release, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Lakera raises $20M Series A to secure generative AI applications (press-release, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2025 (sec, accessed 2026-09-23)
Last verified 2026-09-23.