AI visibility report for Operant AI in Agent Authentication & Identity for AI.

Operant AI is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company offering a runtime AI and cloud application defense platform. Founded in 2021 by engineers from Apple, VMware, Google, Qualcomm, and ARM, the company's '3D Runtime Defense' approach unifies discovery, detection, and active blocking across APIs, LLM/GenAI applications, AI agents, MCP servers, and Kubernetes-native cloud stacks—deployed via a single Helm chart without code instrumentation. Core modules include AI Gatekeeper (real-time LLM threat protection), Agent Protector (agentic AI security), MCP Gateway (Model Context Protocol governance), and API Threat Protection beyond the WAF. The platform inline auto-redacts PII, enforces Non-Human Identity controls, and claims to block over 80% of OWASP Top 10 runtime attacks. Operant has raised $13.5M in total funding and is the only vendor Gartner featured across five AI security reports in 2025.