Pillar Security
Tel-Aviv-founded (Dor Sarig + Ziv Karliner, both ex-IDF cyber); end-to-end LLM security platform — discovery, red-teaming, runtime guardrails. $9M seed Apr-2024 (Shield Capital + Greenfield).
Active · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 23 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2023 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Enterprise quote vendor fix
- Funding
- $9M seed Apr-2024 (Shield Capital + Greenfield Partners) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Compliance
- hipaa, iso27001, soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: enterprise GenAI red-team + runtime
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Full lifecycle (discovery → red-team → runtime); strong Israeli cyber pedigree; OWASP LLM Top-10 mapping.
Cons
Early-stage; less mindshare than Lakera or Robust Intelligence; small ecosystem.
Claims & capabilities
$9M seed Apr-2024 (Shield + Greenfield); OWASP LLM Top-10 mapping; SOC2
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — cloud, self-hosted and hybrid options
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (22 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Runtime AI security platform (red-team + production guardrails) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Tel-Aviv-founded (Dor Sarig + Ziv Karliner, both ex-IDF cyber); end-to-end LLM security … vendor
- Claims / benefits $9M seed Apr-2024 (Shield + Greenfield); OWASP LLM Top-10 mapping; SOC2 vendor
- Created 2023 (founded) vendor
- Funding $9M seed Apr-2024 (Shield Capital + Greenfield Partners) vendor
- Pricing Enterprise quote vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — cloud, self-hosted and hybrid options vendor
- HQ Tel Aviv / NYC vendor
- Founders / pedigree Dor Sarig (CEO; ex-IDF 8200) + Ziv Karliner (CTO; ex-IDF) vendor
- Optimised for enterprise GenAI red-team + runtime vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure OWASP LLM Top-10; CISA AI guidelines vendor
- Pros Full lifecycle (discovery → red-team → runtime); strong Israeli cyber pedigree; OWASP LL… vendor
- Cons Early-stage; less mindshare than Lakera or Robust Intelligence; small ecosystem. vendor
- Project & sources www.pillar.security/ vendor
- cost-pricing-model subscription vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications hipaa,iso27001,soc2-type2 vendor
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Related systems
Referenced by (2)
- LiteLLM integrates with — LiteLLM proxy docs have a Pillar Security guardrail integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Pillar guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)