Mindgard vs SPLX

See why AI and security teams choose Mindgard ahead of SPLX (acquired by Zscaler) for visibility into their AI attack surface, measurement of AI risk and active defense of AI Systems.

Mindgard vs Protect AI

See why AI and security teams choose Mindgard for attack‑driven testing, visibility across models and agents, and enterprise‑grade controls.

Why Security and AI Teams Choose Mindgard Over SPLX

Discover Shadow AI

Map the AI attack surface to gain visibility into AI inventory and activity; reveal what attackers can find out about an organization’s AI.

Assess & Report AI Risk

Continuously red‑team models, agents, and apps across the AI lifecycle to measure risk. Assess how attackers can exploit your AI and validate fixes.

Prevent AI Breaches

Actively defend AI. Enforce controls and policies to mitigate AI attacks at run-time. Stop attackers from breaching AI.

Mindgard vs. SPLX: The Breakdown

Below is a side-by-side comparison of Mindgard and SPLX across key capabilities that matter to enterprise security and AI teams. Each category highlights how the two platforms approach visibility, testing, and control differently.

Feature

Winner

AI Risk Visibility

Surfaces high impact AI risks including architecture, integration and intellectual-property vulnerabilities. Works across agents, applications and models, providing full-stack visibility and giving teams earlier, deeper risk discovery than runtime-only inspection.

Provides AI runtime threat inspection to monitor AI interactions in production. Surfaces abuse, emerging attack patterns, and policy violations across LLM apps, deployed systems, and agentic workflows.

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Shadow AI Discovery

Surfaces AI asset inventory and hidden AI usage. Detects ungoverned model deployments and unapproved data flows that runtime tools miss.

Detects LLMs, AI workflows, MCP servers, and guardrails automatically. Teams can compare safety scores to benchmarks and approve or block usage.

Mindgard

AI Risk Assessment

Delivers continuous and automated AI red teaming across agents, models and AI applications. Identifies real exploitation paths to demonstrate exactly how attackers can compromise AI systems.

Automated AI risk assessments, red teaming, and simulated domain-specific attacks on AI systems from build to runtime.

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Behavioural Science Testing Capabilities

Models attacker behavior across human, linguistic, and system biases to surface vulnerabilities that static testing and persona-based probes cannot surface.

Simulates different user types to test prompts from adversarial and regular user personas. Teams can define and run custom probes and upload custom datasets to use their own AI attack prompts.

Mindgard

AI Security R&D Talent

86% of staff on R&D team, 38% hold PhDs. Founded by Professor at Lancaster University. Research pipeline from the UK’s top AI security lab.

14% on R&D team; per People statistics on LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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Simplicity and Usability

Designed for both security engineers and AI builders. Offers clear, explainable risk visualizations, guided workflows, and one-click retesting to minimize noise and accelerate remediation.

Intuitive dashboard offers overall and category scores, insights on test runs with drill-down details, probe settings, target settings, compliance, prompt hardening, and log analysis.

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AI Guardrails

Nascent capabilities

Deploys real-time guardrails to block jailbreaks, sensitive data leaks, and unsafe outputs.

SPLX

Attack-Driven Testing

Continuously red-teams models, agents, and applications through attack-driven testing—covering jailbreaks, data exfiltration, and prompt injection. Supports multi-turn adversarial chains with reproducible results to validate fixes.

Runs high-scale vulnerability assessments, automated red teaming, and domain-specific attack simulations. Multi-modal testing protects against prompt injections, off-topic, hallucinations, and social engineering.

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Runtime Detection & Policy

Provides inline detection and enforcement for prompt injection, data leakage, and tool abuse with configurable block/alert/enrich options.

Detects and blocks jailbreaks, prompt injections, data leaks, and off-topic behavior. Offers custom AI policy creation and adjustable detection thresholds to fine-tune filter sensitivity and feedback loops.

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Enterprise Controls

Delivers enterprise-grade governance with granular permissions, policy enforcement, and detailed audit trails. Supports SAML/SSO, SCIM provisioning, and RBAC to align security testing and policy decisions with organizational compliance and security standards.

Automatically maps test results to AI frameworks for audit-readiness. Users can set custom governance rules or import JSON policies to enforce internal security standards.

Mindgard

Integrations

Integrates seamlessly across developer and security workflows, including CI/CD pipelines, IDE hooks, SIEM, and ticketing systems. The first AI red teaming solution with a native Burp Suite integration, enabling red teams to extend attack-driven testing into familiar tooling.

Integrates with cloud providers, source code repositories, AI and ML platforms, and data platforms for AI asset management. Integrates into CI/CD pipelines and connects to conversational platforms, LLMs, and any type of endpoint via REST API for runtime protection.

Mindgard

Deployment Options

Most flexible: SaaS, Private cloud, Customer‑managed. On-prem available for certain use cases. 

SaaS deployment. On-premises and hybrid/VPC deployment options available on Enterprise plans.

Mindgard

Reporting & Scorecards

Provides comprehensive reporting that connects testing outcomes to business risk. Teams can assess how attackers could exploit their AI, validate defenses, and evidence compliance through detailed scorecards, trend analytics, and executive summaries.

Provides interactive visualizations with detailed insights on executed tests, overall and risk category scores, and detailed reporting on individual test runs. Teams can align AI deployments with standards and regulations through AI compliance mapping and monitoring.

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Support & Partnership

Every customer receives a dedicated success team backed by world-class AI security researchers. Mindgard provides hands-on guidance informed by active attack research, helping enterprises apply the latest insights to their own AI environments and continuously strengthen defenses.

Community support is available for all users, with designated support for Professional and Enterprise users. Enterprise users also receive premium support, access to a Customer Success Program, a Technical Account Manager, and training and onboarding.

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Pricing Model

Contact sales for tailored pricing.

Contact sales for pricing.

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See Mindgard in Action

Powered by the world's most effective attack library for AI, Mindgard enables red teams, security and developers to swiftly identify and remediate AI security vulnerabilities.

What Real Users Say

Don’t just take our word for it, see how offensive security teams rate the experience across platforms.

“I've seen what you guys managed to get and it is indeed very worrying - in particular the user data access and api keys"

CEO at AI software company

“With Mindgard, we’ve been able to significantly reduce the time spent on AI security assessments while enhancing the quality of our deliverables.”

Red teamer at F500 bank

"It keeps hanging."

G2 Review

Features Loved by Offensive Security and Red Teams

Purpose-built features that surface AI security threats that really matter.

Burp Suite

Extend offensive testing into familiar workflows. Mindgard’s native Burp Suite integration lets red teams chain AI-specific attacks, validate exploits, and report findings directly within their existing toolset.

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Remediation

Turn findings into fixes with guided remediation workflows. Automatically reproduce vulnerabilities, validate patches, and document risk reduction for auditors and leadership

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Multi-Modal Support

Test beyond text with coverage for vision, audio, and multi-modal models to uncover cross-channel vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.

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Integrations

Plug into CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, SIEM, and ticketing systems to bring AI risk visibility and testing automation into every stage of development and security operations.

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Attack Library

The world’s most effective library of jailbreaks, data exfiltration methods, and prompt injection chains—curated from ongoing research and field testing to mirror the latest real-world threats.

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Standards Mapping

Align findings to emerging frameworks like OWASP Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS, translating technical vulnerabilities into compliance-ready evidence.

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FAQs

View and learn more about Mindgard's features, data handling capabilities, or integration options.

What makes Mindgard stand out from other AI security companies?
Founded in a leading UK university lab, Mindgard boasts over 10 years of rigorous research in AI security, with public and private partnerships that ensure access to the latest advancements and the most qualified talent in the field.
Can Mindgard handle different kinds of AI models?
Yes, Mindgard is neural network agnostic and supports a wide range of AI models, including Generative AI, LLMs, Natural Language Processing (NLP), audio, image, and multi-modal systems. This versatility allows it to address security concerns across various AI applications.
How does Mindgard ensure data security and privacy?
Mindgard follows industry best practices for secure software development and operation, including use of our own platform for testing AI components. We are GDPR compliant and expect ISO 27001 certification in early 2026.
Can Mindgard work with the LLMs I use today?
Absolutely. Mindgard is designed to secure AI, Generative AI, and LLMs, including popular models like ChatGPT. It enables continuous testing and minimisation of security threats to your AI models and applications, ensuring they operate securely.
What types of organisations use Mindgard?
Mindgard serves a diverse range of organisations, including those in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and cybersecurity. Any enterprise deploying AI technologies can benefit from Mindgard's platform to secure their AI assets and mitigate potential risks.
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