SASE provider Cato Networks has acquired Aim Security, which specializes in AI security. The transaction is intended to enhance the Cato SASE Cloud platform and help enterprises in their adoption of AI agents and public and private AI applications, the company said.
“AI is transforming businesses everywhere. At the same time, security, compliance and privacy risks are introduced through new interaction models with enterprise data by people, AI agents and AI models,” Cato officials said. “With SASE becoming the de facto standard for a secure fabric connecting all enterprise resources, including employees, partners, locations, clouds, devices and applications, SASE is uniquely positioned as a primary control point for all AI interactions.”
Founded in 2022 and backed by YL Ventures and Canaan Partners, Aim’s AI security solution spans three AI security use cases supported by a unified and advanced core engine: securing employee use of public AI applications, securing private AI applications and AI agents, and securing the agentic AI development lifecycle with AI security posture management (AI-SPM), the company said.
In the public application use case, Aim is designed to discover shadow AI use, monitor and protect all end-user AI interactions, unlock visibility and risk mitigation for existing AI use, and enable net-new AI use cases. This allows employees to securely use public and enterprise AI agents like Microsoft Copilot, develop with new AI coding agents such as Cursor, and leverage local agents with model context protocol (MCP) servers, officials said.
In addition, the Aim AI Firewall is designed to secure internal, private AI applications and agents against runtime AI attacks. It enforces corporate security and governance policies on all interactions between users, AI agents and internal AI applications and models, whether on premises or in a cloud data center, the company said.
Aim protects the AI development lifecycle, from training ML models to building custom AI agents, by continuously discovering, detecting and remediating AI security and compliance risks before they reach production as well as scanning internal AI models for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, officials said.
“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. “With the acquisition of Aim Security, we’re turbocharging our SASE platform with advanced AI security capabilities to secure our customers’ journey into the new and exciting AI era.”
Cato’s cloud-native SASE platform offers 360-degree visibility into AI interactions—from users accessing AI applications to AI agents, models, MCP servers, and other API-driven services supporting AI-enabled workflows, the company said.
Cato supports modular and gradual adoption of platform capabilities across network modernization (SD-WAN), security consolidation (SSE), hybrid work (ZTNA) and AI security (AISEC).
