Silicon Valley startup with Indian roots introduces runtime protection to combat rogue AI agents, LLM poisoning, and data leaks in live AI environments.
As Indian enterprises accelerate their adoption of autonomous AI agents and multi-agent workflows, cybersecurity risks are mounting. In response, Silicon Valley–based Operant AI has launched AI Gatekeeper™, a security platform purpose-built to protect live AI applications from evolving threats like rogue AI agents, LLM poisoning, and data leakage.
According to Deloitte’s State of GenAI report, over 80% of Indian organizations are already exploring autonomous agents, while 50% are building multi-agent setups with minimal human oversight. Operant AI—founded by Indian-origin tech veterans from Apple, VMware, and Google—is stepping in to fill a critical protection gap.
“The AI that we are now securing is a completely new beast compared to even two years ago,” said Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder, Operant AI. “With RAG applications and inference systems scaling rapidly, AI can’t be secured in isolation. AI Gatekeeper brings defense wherever AI is deployed—cloud, edge, or hybrid.”
AI Gatekeeper builds on Operant’s existing 3D Runtime Defense, offering trust scoring, agentic access controls, and blocking of threats targeting Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and Non-Human Identities (NHIs). It also introduces live security catalogs and threat analytics across platforms like OpenAI, Hugging Face, Cohere, Snowflake, and Databricks.
With Indian firms heavily reliant on third-party vendors for AI deployment, data governance and control become complex. Operant’s new solution aims to restore visibility and protection in real time.
“Securing AI Agents is a critical priority for AI-native companies because you can’t hand off that level of autonomy at scale to these systems without appropriate controls,” said Martin Choluj, CISO of Clickhouse.
Industry Backing and Recognition
The product launch follows Operant AI’s recent recognition in Gartner’s Market Guide for AI TRiSM (Trust, Risk, and Security Management). Industry leaders like Raj Yavatkar, CTO of Juniper Networks, noted that the AI Gatekeeper comes at a time when security, infrastructure, and data responsibilities are rapidly converging.