Leadership Compass

AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)

AI-SPM is an emerging market that is converging from cloud security, AI security, identity security, data security, and AI governance. This Leadership Compass focuses on solutions whose primary objective is to discover, assess, and prioritize AI security risks across enterprise AI environments. Products focused primarily on AI development, MLOps, Responsible AI governance, compliance, or individual security controls are considered adjacent markets unless they provide broad AI security posture management capabilities.

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Aug 14, 2026

Estimated publication:

January 2027

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Your Benefits

Mike Small

AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) solutions assess the security posture of AI systems by evaluating both cyber security exposure and the existence of security controls. They estimate residual risk by identifying where AI assets, identities, models and enterprise data are exposed, assessing the controls protecting them, and prioritising the risks according to their potential impact.

This is a new topic for our Leadership Compass reports. If you would like to see what Mike has to say about AI SPM, you can read his recently published LC on Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms by clicking this link.

To be included in this report, solutions must:
• Deliver functionality across most of the key capability areas described above.
• Provide continuous discovery and inventory of AI assets.
• Deliver posture assessment rather than solely runtime protection.
• Provide a unified management platform with centralized policy management and reporting.
• Support enterprise AI deployments across multiple AI platforms and environments.
• Provide APIs and automation suitable for integration with enterprise security operations.

Solutions will be excluded if:
• They only provide AI runtime protection (such as AI firewalls or prompt filtering).
• They only provide AI governance without technical security posture assessment.
• They only secure a single AI service or a single cloud provider.
• They consist of loosely integrated products rather than a unified platform.
• They are delivered exclusively as managed services.

How to Book a Briefing

Go to the KuppingerCole Booking tool webpage.
Under Select a Service, select Leadership Compass Briefing 55 mins.
Under Select Staff, scroll down and select Mike Small
Choose date and time between Sept 8 - Oct 6, 2026 that are convenient for your team. Please note: Times will be shown in your time zone.
You will receive an MS Teams invite that you can forward along to others in your company. Alternatively, you can use this as a placeholder and send us an invite with another app.
Please prepare a slide deck and provide it to the analyst

Recommended Briefing Structure:

Company and Product Context (5 minutes)

Brief company overview and positioning in the Zero Trust Platforms market
Product scope and major components relevant to this Leadership Compass
Primary customer profiles and deployment scenarios

Product Overview (10 minutes)

Please structure this section explicitly around the evaluation categories below. We do not expect every solution to cover all capabilities, so please focus on those you do support. You do not need to cover every feature exhaustively, but clarity and technical depth are essential.:

AI asset discovery and inventory
AI identity and access security
AI data security and privacy
AI model security
AI applications, agent and integration security
AI runtime risk assessment
AI governance, and compliance
AI security assessment and risk prioritisation

Demonstration (30 minutes)

The demo can be live, video, or canned, although the analyst would like to be walked through the demo, so he understands the products key capabilities including dashboards.

Graphical User Interface, basic deployment, policy management, workflows, etc.
Realistic scenarios for both human and non-human access
Monitoring, analytics, and investigation workflows
AI-related or automation capabilities, where applicable

Differentiation and Roadmap (5minutes)

Clear articulation of what differentiates your platform from peers
Near-term roadmap priorities relevant to cloud security
Known limitations or trade-offs (openness is appreciated and expected)

Wrap Up and Q&A

Reference customers, deployments, or representative use cases
Time for clarification questions and discussion

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