Zscaler announced that it has acquired SPLX, an AI security company focused on AI asset discovery, automated red teaming, and governance across development and deployment environments. The acquisition is intended to expand the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform, providing comprehensive protection across the entire AI lifecycle as organizations accelerate the adoption of generative AI, agentic systems, and large language models.
Zscaler stated that the addition of SPLX will enable customers to secure AI models, agent workflows, Model Context Protocol servers, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and other AI implementations from initial development stages through production deployment. The acquisition also strengthens Zscaler’s data protection capabilities by providing built-in enforcement to prevent loss of sensitive information across prompts, model outputs, and internal AI pipelines.
As enterprise AI investment accelerates, organizations are facing increased exposure from rapidly evolving models, shadow AI adoption, and complex AI infrastructure deployments. The acquisition introduces a new integrated layer of AI security to help enterprises discover their AI assets, evaluate associated risks, detect vulnerabilities, and enforce guardrails at runtime and in development environments.
SPLX technology will expand Zscaler’s platform in several areas. AI Asset Discovery and Risk Assessment will allow organizations to identify AI models, workflows, code repositories, MCP servers, and RAG pipelines across private and public environments. Automated AI Red Teaming and Remediation will use more than 5,000 specialized attack simulations to expose risks and support real-time remediation from early development through deployment. AI Runtime Guardrails and Prompt Hardening will provide visibility and protection across agentic workflows and model interactions. AI Governance and Compliance capabilities will help organizations transition to proactive protection strategies while meeting regulatory and enterprise governance requirements.
The companies emphasized the importance of securing AI at the pace of adoption as enterprise AI investments are expected to exceed $250 billion by the end of 2025, further expanding the global attack surface.
KEY QUOTES:
“Today marks an important step in advancing Zscaler’s role as the trusted partner helping organizations securely adopt AI. AI is creating enormous value, but its full potential can only be realized when it can be secured. By combining SPLX’s technology with the intelligence of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and its native data protection that classifies, governs, and prevents loss of sensitive data across prompts, models, and outputs, Zscaler will secure the entire AI lifecycle on one platform. This will strengthen our industry leadership and give customers the confidence to safely embrace AI.”
Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Zscaler
“Zscaler and SPLX share a vision to confront the vast new attack surface created by rapidly expanding AI infrastructure investments. By joining forces, we’ll bring our innovation to one of the most trusted security platforms in the world, securing AI innovation at the speed organizations are adopting it.”
Kristian Kamber, CEO and Co-Founder of SPLX
