Cato will integrate Aim's AI security capabilities into its SASE platform to give enterprise IT teams tighter controls over AI interactions, including agent workflows and model development.
Cato Networks has acquired startup Aim Security to further expand its secure access service edge (SASE) cloud platform and to help enterprises securely adopt AI agents and applications.
“AI transformation will eclipse digital transformation as the main force that will shape enterprises over the next decade,” said Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks, in a statement. “With the acquisition of Aim Security, we’re turbo-charging our SASE platform with advanced AI security capabilities to secure our customers’ journey into the new and exciting AI era.”
Aim Security offers a platform that’s designed to secure the AI enterprises use, build, and run. Customers can control interactions with public AI services, protect internal AI applications and agents at runtime, and harden the development and deployment of enterprise AI models. Founded in 2022, Aim Security tackled generative AI security as ChatGPT was released.
“While the world met the early signs of this revolution with deep cynicism and tried to strike it down with outdated tools like DLP [data loss prevention], the pain we saw in our customers’ eyes and their hunger to truly understand AI convinced my co-founder and me that a fundamental shift was underway,” wrote Matan Getz, co-founder and CEO of Aim Security, in a blog announcing the acquisition. “We firmly believed AI was destined to join network, endpoint, identity, data, and cloud as a core technological and cybersecurity foundation.”
By integrating Aim’s inspection technology into Cato’s distributed enforcement layer called Single Pass Cloud Engine, or SPACE, Cato’s platform will be able to analyze AI interactions in real-time, according to Cato. The capability will be able to monitor AI prompts, responses, agent workflows, and model outputs, which will provide customers with deep visibility into AI.
“This is not simply DLP repackaged for AI. It is a new security attack surface requiring brand new security capabilities, and Aim’s technology was purpose-built to deliver,” wrote Cato’s Kramer in a blog. “Enterprises will need controls over AI interactions, just as they did for web, cloud, and email in past decades. What is different this time is the speed. AI adoption is measured in months, not years. Just as SASE became the foundation for a new era of networking and security, enterprises now need to extend this foundation for the speed and complexity of AI.”
Aim will remain available as a standalone product, and Cato will offer Aim capabilities as part of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform in early 2026. The company says it will offer a seamless migration path to all customers who deployed the standalone Aim solution. Cato customers with current AI security requirements can deploy Aim today.
