Agentic Index
Pillar Security vs Zenity (2026)
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Pillar Security and Zenity both inventory the customer's agents and enforce policy at runtime. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Pillar leans on testing: RedGraph maps how tools, prompts and data combine into exploitable paths, red teaming runs multi turn and black box attacks, guardrails log every tool call, and the platform can run in the customer's VPC. Zenity leans on governance: inventory across SaaS, cloud, endpoint and coding agents, posture checks before go live, runtime Boundaries, and Blue Agent triage with human approval. Zenity holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 and lists usage based prices on AWS Marketplace. Zenity also gives custom agents an Evaluate API to call for an enforcement decision on each action. Choose Pillar for attack path testing in your own VPC, and Zenity for governance of agents in production.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Pillar Security nor Zenity clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Pillar Security does not document workflow orchestration in full, nor human oversight and guardrails; Zenity does not document workflow orchestration in full. 25 of the 86 vendors in the lane clear it. See the AI SOC ranking
On the Agentic Index agent infrastructure ranking, neither Pillar Security nor Zenity clears the bar, which asks for all five production contract capabilities documented in full. Pillar Security does not document security and identity governance in full, nor model flexibility and routing; Zenity documents two of the five in full. 33 of the 186 vendors in the lane clear it. See the agent infrastructure ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Pillar Security and Zenity are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Pillar Security if
- The whole platform has to sit inside your VPC.
- You want attack paths mapped across tools, prompts and data.
- Attacks should run over many turns against production, with full transcripts and steps to reproduce.
Choose Zenity if
- Your own agents should call an API for each enforcement decision, under SSO and keys you manage.
- Agents across SaaS, endpoints and coding tools need one inventory.
- Human approval should sit on finding triage.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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Pillar SecurityIntegrations & Tool Calling Discovery connects across the customer's environment to inventory agents and models along with MCP servers and tools. Runtime guardrails block and redact agent traffic, and telemetry streams to SIEM platforms. Discovery reaches code repositories, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms and MCP servers, and the guardrails plug into AI gateways such as LiteLLM, Kong, TrueFoundry and Agent Router. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platform and /platform/runtime-guardrailsread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityIntegrations & Tool Calling Zenity covers Microsoft's Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Platform and Azure AI Foundry, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI, ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise, and ServiceNow. It also covers GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Microsoft Foundry and Agent 365. Custom agents report through OpenTelemetry, and Zenity integrates with CrowdStrike Falcon SIEM and ServiceNow. Sourcezenity.io/platformread 2026-09-28 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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Pillar SecurityWorkflow Orchestration The product runs a fixed loop of discovery, red teaming and runtime guardrails, with governance on top and findings that tune the guardrails. Pillar does not orchestrate the customer's agents or offer a flow the customer builds. The loop covers coding agents, MCP servers and skill marketplaces. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platform and pillar.securityread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityWorkflow Orchestration Surface, Enforce and Protect run as a fixed product pipeline, and one Guardian Agent is live, Blue Agent, a triage assistant that works in several steps. There is no coordination among several agents and no flow the customer configures. The Clarity and Correlation agents from earlier descriptions no longer appear. Sourcezenity.io/blog/august-2026-product-updatesread 2026-09-28 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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Pillar SecurityTriggers & Channel Coverage Runtime guardrails act on every prompt and response, and on retrieved content and tool invocations, as they happen. Behavioral monitoring flags when an agent strays from its purpose, so work starts without anyone launching it. The guardrails judge intent rather than only matching patterns, blocking prompt injection, jailbreaks and tool manipulation as they happen. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platform/runtime-guardrailsread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityTriggers & Channel Coverage Boundaries check every agent action in real time as it happens, in prevention or detection mode, and Blue Agent triages findings as they arrive, so events start the work with no one launching it. Sourcezenity.io/platform/runtime-boundariesread 2026-09-28 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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Pillar SecurityKnowledge Grounding & RAG A full inventory covers the customer's agents and models along with MCP servers and tools, with agent permissions mapped to data sources, and RedGraph maps how tools, prompts and data combine. Together they chart the customer's AI estate, including shadow AI, and Pillar describes no retrieval structure its agents draw on. Runtime guardrails also trace PII and secrets from source to destination. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platformread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityKnowledge Grounding & RAG A live inventory covers agents across SaaS, custom and endpoint deployments, with identity, data and behavior signals correlated into attack paths. There is no retrieval layer that an agent queries, and Blue Agent gathers context for each finding. Sourcezenity.io/platformread 2026-09-28 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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Pillar SecurityMemory & State Persistence There is no memory for the customer's agents. The asset map and the interaction logs are records about the agents, not memory the agents use. Sourcepillar.security/platformread 2026-09-28 |
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ZenityMemory & State Persistence Blue Agent's triage guidelines are generated at onboarding and persist for the organization, and the agent suggests revisions when it sees a need. That state persists and the agent maintains it, and Zenity says nothing more about its scope or lifetime. Sourcezenity.io/blog/august-2026-product-updatesread 2026-09-28 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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Pillar SecurityHuman Oversight & Guardrails Runtime guardrails block malicious instructions and interactions that break data handling rules, and they redact sensitive content. Approved model lists and MCP allowlists set further limits. The customer sets these limits, and Pillar describes no step that asks a person to approve before an agent action goes through. Blocking follows configurable policies for data handling and data sovereignty. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platform/runtime-guardrails and /platformread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityHuman Oversight & Guardrails Blue Agent runs in suggest mode, so nothing it proposes is applied without a person's approval. On the customer's agents, Boundaries let an action through, block it or shut the agent down. Sourcezenity.io/blog/august-2026-product-updatesread 2026-09-28 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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Pillar SecuritySecurity, Identity & Governance Pillar reports a SOC 2 Type II audit, and its trust center is at trust.pillar.security. Pillar names no SSO, role model or audit surface for people using the Pillar console. SourcePillar Security, pillar.securityread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenitySecurity, Identity & Governance Attestations on the trust center cover SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701, with full reports on request. Account setup offers SSO through Azure AD and Okta or generic SAML and OIDC, along with an IP allowlist and encryption keys the customer manages. FedRAMP is in process, not authorized. Sourcedocs.zenity.io/ssoread 2026-09-28 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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Pillar SecurityObservability & Auditability Runtime guardrails log every prompt, response and tool call with metadata and timestamps for the customer's agents, along with results, and stream telemetry to SIEM, giving a record of every tool call. Audit logs, compliance reports and policy lifecycle management sit under governance. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platform/runtime-guardrails and /platformread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityObservability & Auditability The customer's agents are analyzed in context: execution paths, tool invocations and memory updates, along with decision flows, RAG queries and file access. Each agent has an activity record, and spans from custom agents come in through OpenTelemetry, so every tool call the customer's agents make is on record. Sourcezenity.io/platform/ai-observabilityread 2026-09-28 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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Pillar SecurityDeployment & Data Residency Customers can deploy Pillar in their own VPC with their own data and models, so it can run in the customer's own environment. Pillar is offered as cloud, self hosted or hybrid. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security and /platformread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityDeployment & Data Residency Commercial customers get SaaS on AWS. A federal deployment inside Knox Systems' platform is in process for FedRAMP, a second environment not yet authorized. There is no region list or option to host in the customer's own environment. Encryption keys the customer manages protect data but do not set where it lives, and the agent platforms Zenity covers are not where it is hosted. Sourcezenity.io/company-overview/newsroom/company-news/zenity-achieves-fedramp-in-process-status-for-ai-agent-securityread 2026-09-28 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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Pillar SecurityPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Prebuilt guardrails ship, along with compliance reports for GDPR and CCPA and the published SAIL framework, now in version 2.0, but Pillar does not name them as a catalog and offers no prebuilt agents. The platform has five modules. They are discovery and posture, red teaming, runtime guardrails, governance and compliance, and an agentic endpoint module. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platformread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs A library of prebuilt Boundaries rules and a snippet library of prebuilt examples ship without a named catalog, and one Guardian Agent, Blue Agent, is live. There is no named set of prebuilt agents. Sourcezenity.io/platform/runtime-boundariesread 2026-09-28 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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Pillar SecurityModel Flexibility & Routing Pillar enforces approved model lists but offers no model choice or routing of its own. Its guardrails mask PII, PHI, secrets and credentials before they reach the models. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platform and /platform/runtime-guardrailsread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityModel Flexibility & Routing No model provider, choice or routing is named for Blue Agent or the platform's analysis. Zenity covers agents built on many models, which does not give its customers a choice of model for Zenity itself. Sourcezenity.io/platformread 2026-09-28 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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Pillar SecurityAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility No public API, SDK or MCP server is published for building on Pillar. MCP allowlists are something the product enforces, not a way to build on it. AI gateways can call the runtime guardrails through an API, but Pillar publishes no reference for it. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platform and /platform/runtime-guardrailsread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The Evaluate API lets customers' custom agents call Zenity for inline enforcement decisions on their actions, alongside OpenTelemetry ingestion. It has a public documentation page, Custom Agents: Evaluate API, but the page shows no reference content. Sourcedocs.zenity.io/integration/custom-agents-evaluate-apiread 2026-09-28 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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Pillar SecurityTesting, Debugging & Optimization Adversarial attacks over many turns target the customer's AI agents and workflows, including black box attacks on production systems, with full attack transcripts and reproduction steps, and assessments run continuously. RedGraph maps the surfaces that can be exploited in the customer's environment. This is red teaming of the agents the customer has deployed. RedGraph builds attack graphs specific to the environment, showing lateral movement and tool chaining paths that other security tools miss. SourcePillar Security, pillar.security/platformread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityTesting, Debugging & Optimization Before anything goes live, the customer's agents are checked for configuration and permissions against policy, and attack paths that correlated signals show to be reachable are scored from 0 to 100. That validates configuration. There is no red teaming or scored test run against the customer's agents. Sourcezenity.io/platform/ai-exposure-managementread 2026-09-28 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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Pillar SecurityBrowser & Computer Use Pillar describes no browser or computer use by its own agents. It secures coding agents against prompt injection, data exfiltration, unauthorized actions, excessive permissions and malicious code execution. SourcePillar Security, pillar.securityread 2026-10-05 |
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ZenityBrowser & Computer Use Zenity governs other agents, browser and endpoint agents among them, and does not drive an interface itself or use a browser or computer. Sourcezenity.io/platformread 2026-09-28 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales; no prices published. Demo on request. | AWS Marketplace (Security Hub Extended): Observability at $130 per resource per month, plus Runtime Protection at $16 and Guardrails for AWS at $2 per million tokens per month. |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Inference, not stated by the vendor: scope of AI assets, agents and applications secured. | Per monitored resource per month for observability, plus per million tokens for runtime protection and guardrails (AWS Security Hub Extended); private-offer contracts otherwise. |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Mixed |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Zenity
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· Human approval / guardrails
Zenity now supports tool call validation in Anthropic's Inference Hooks for Claude Enterprise, so each tool call Claude proposes is held for an allow or deny verdict from Zenity before it runs.
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· Integrations
Zenity announced an integration with AWS Security Hub to secure enterprise AI agents.
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· Integrations
Zenity extended its AI agent security and governance platform to support Claude Enterprise.
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