Zenity, the end-to-end security and governance platform built specifically for AI agents, has been named to the 2025 Fortune Cyber 60 list as one of the 20 early-stage companies shaping the future of cybersecurity.
The annual list — curated by Fortune in partnership with Lightspeed Venture Partners — spotlights the most promising venture-backed cybersecurity startups demonstrating exceptional innovation and market traction. Zenity’s inclusion reflects its leadership in an emerging frontier: securing the rapidly growing ecosystem of generative and agentic AI systems used across the enterprise.
“AI agents are changing how we operate at every layer of the enterprise,” said Ben Kliger, CEO and co-founder of Zenity. “They represent one of the fastest industrial revolutions of our time. We’re making sure that this innovation doesn’t outpace security — bringing visibility, guardrails, and real-time defense to every agent, everywhere.”
Securing the Next Wave of AI
As companies rush to deploy AI assistants like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, and GitHub Copilot, security teams face a growing challenge: keeping up with intelligent systems that can make decisions and act autonomously.
Zenity’s platform is the first to deliver full lifecycle protection purpose-built for AI agents — spanning discovery, posture management, continuous detection, and response. It provides unified visibility across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint environments, allowing enterprises to adopt generative AI safely and at scale.
In practice, that means CISOs and IT leaders can enforce consistent governance and compliance standards while maintaining the flexibility to innovate. The platform’s “defense-in-depth” model extends traditional cybersecurity principles into the agentic AI era — where automation can now interact directly with sensitive enterprise systems.
From Early Innovator to Industry Standard
Zenity’s recognition by Fortune caps off a breakout year for the company. Beyond rapid enterprise adoption, Zenity has:
- Hosted two AI Agent Security Summits, convening leaders from across cybersecurity and AI governance.
- Introduced major product innovations in agent visibility and real-time defense.
- Earned multiple industry honors, including the Top InfoSec Innovator Award for Trailblazing GenAI Agentic Application Security, Agentic AI Security Solution of the Year in the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards, and recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM).
While much of the security industry has focused on securing data and models, Zenity’s work underscores a broader evolution: safeguarding the behavior of AI agents as they become core to enterprise operations.
With its inclusion in the Fortune Cyber 60, Zenity joins a growing cohort of startups driving the next wave of cybersecurity innovation — one where the battleground increasingly lies in the space between human oversight and autonomous AI action.
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