Knostic Named the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Cybersecurity Governance

by Knostic Team

17 October 2025

Knostic, the enterprise AI security platform built on the Need-to-Know Access Control model, has been recognized as a 2025 Gartner^® Cool Vendor in AI Cybersecurity Governance. This recognition highlights Knostic’s leadership in AI security, AI governance, and AI data protection, helping enterprises safely adopt and scale AI assistants, LLMs, and agentic systems.

Setting the Standard for AI Cybersecurity Governance

As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI assistants, large language models (LLMs), and AI-powered agents, security and compliance teams face new challenges in ensuring AI data governance, access control, and regulatory compliance. Gartner’s Cool Vendors in AI Cybersecurity Governance (2025) report notes that while many organizations are exploring AI governance, few vendors deliver mature, end-to-end solutions for AI cybersecurity risk management.

Knostic stands out for pioneering Topic Access Governance, an innovation that helps enterprises detect and mitigate AI data oversharing risks in Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, and similar enterprise AI environments. This approach allows organizations to enforce least-privilege access at the AI layer, ensuring sensitive data stays protected and compliant with internal and external policies.

Why Gartner Recognized Knostic as a Cool Vendor

According to the Gartner report, Knostic “have developed an innovative approach, called topic access governance, that provides visibility into oversharing risk. "

Knostic’s platform provides:

AI Oversharing Detection: Identifies when users interact with AI assistants using prompts that exceed their authorized data permissions.
Topic Access Governance Reports: Quantifies and visualizes the scope of potential AI data exposure risks.
In-line Policy Enforcement: Offers a real-time proxy that can block unauthorized or high-risk prompts and responses.

By focusing on AI data security and AI access governance, Knostic empowers CISOs and data protection leaders to enable AI innovation while maintaining full compliance and visibility.

Why AI Security and Governance Go Hand in Hand

AI governance is quickly becoming a core cybersecurity discipline. CISOs and CIOs are increasingly responsible for establishing AI risk management frameworks, enforcing policies, and maintaining continuous oversight of AI usage across their organizations.

Knostic’s AI Security Governance Platform helps enterprises bridge this gap. It integrates with tools such as Microsoft Purview, DLP, and DSPM platforms to extend data security and governance controls into AI-driven environments. The result is consistent enforcement of need-to-know principles across every AI interaction, from Microsoft Copilot to internal LLM-powered chatbots and agentic systems.

Leadership Perspective

“We help enterprises operationalize secure AI adoption, ensuring every AI interaction aligns with compliance, business context, and privacy expectations. Being named a Gartner Cool Vendor underscores our commitment to making AI security an enabler of innovation rather than a blocker.”

Gadi Evron CEO and Co-Founder of Knostic

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