Organizations are increasingly turning to security advisory services - not just for tools, but for real strategic guidance. Aqua Security has launched the
Secure AI Advisory Program, bringing enterprise security leaders into direct collaboration with its product and engineering teams to shape how AI workload protection and governance evolve in real-world environments.
Recently,
Bitdefender also rolled out a new suite of
cybersecurity advisory services aimed at helping organizations tighten their defenses, close compliance gaps, and make sense of an increasingly fragmented threat landscape.
Shaping the Roadmap for AI Runtime Protection
“As enterprises explore how to deploy AI capabilities, the Secure AI Advisory Program helps us maintain close contact and mutual influence,”
Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder of Aqua Security told MSSP Alert. “In a fast-moving space like AI security, staying aligned with real customer needs is critical. These interactions allow customers to shape Aqua’s roadmap directly, especially around runtime protection for generative AI, while also helping us guide best practices in return. Feedback from the program flows through product management into engineering, but its impact will be felt across the entire company.”
Generative AI and large language model capabilities embedded into cloud native applications introduce new risks, from prompt injection attacks to policy bypass and data leakage. Secure AI addresses these with application-layer visibility and runtime protection for containerized workloads.
Jerbi noted that the biggest challenge for many enterprises isn’t just defending against these threats - it’s knowing where AI is running in the first place. “Most enterprises are still trying to answer the question: Where is AI running in my environment and how do I secure it? Traditional CNAPP tools don’t offer this level of discovery or visibility for AI. That’s where Aqua Secure AI stands apart. We start by helping organizations identify AI workloads, whether intentional or accidental, and then secure them at runtime, with no SDKs or code changes required. Many of our customers already have the tools they need deployed today, thanks to our Enforcer runtime agent. Secure AI turns that into immediate, frictionless protection for AI applications.”
Expanding Toward Managed Service Offerings
The program also has implications beyond enterprise adoption. While Secure AI is currently aimed at direct enterprise use, Aqua is laying the groundwork for managed service provider engagement. “MSSP engagement is part of our broader strategy though we are just getting started,” Jerbi said.
"Trivy, our open source scanner, is already the foundation of choice for many MSSPs globally. The Aqua platform also calls several MSSPs partners, and our recent launch of Trivy Partner Connect is a key step in enabling more managed service offerings. While Secure AI is currently focused on enterprise adoption, we see strong demand from MSSPs and are building the ecosystem to support them.”
With most AI workloads running in containers on Kubernetes and cloud native infrastructure, Aqua’s eBPF-based Secure AI technology integrates into its broader Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) to protect AI features without code changes. The Advisory Program underscores Aqua’s intent to build AI security capabilities in step with the needs of the organizations deploying them.
