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Prisma AIRS is built on five acquisitions integrated in the last 14 months: Protect AI, CyberArk, Koi, Portkey, and Chronosphere. Akto delivers all of this natively as one AI-native platform.
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When to use Akto vs. PRISMA AIRS: A head-to-head comparison
When to use Akto vs. PRISMA AIRS: A head-to-head comparison
Compare Akto and PRISMA AIRS to find the best AI security solution for your needs.
Compare Akto and PRISMA AIRS to find the best AI security solution for your needs.
Compare Akto and PRISMA AIRS to find the best AI security solution for your needs.
Use Case
Akto
PRISMA AIRS
Shadow AI discovery
Native, continuous, risk-scored
Real-time inventory of MCPs, LLMs, AI apps, agents, and agent skills across SaaS, browsers, IDEs, and endpoints, with risk mapped to every asset.
Spans across multiple products
AIRS 3.0 discovers agents across cloud, SaaS, and endpoints. Full coverage requires AIRS for cloud and SaaS plus Cortex XDR plus AES (via the Koi acquisition) for endpoints.
Shadow AI discovery
Native, continuous, risk-scored
Real-time inventory of MCPs, LLMs, AI apps, agents, and agent skills across SaaS, browsers, IDEs, and endpoints, with risk mapped to every asset.
Spans across multiple products
AIRS 3.0 discovers agents across cloud, SaaS, and endpoints. Full coverage requires AIRS for cloud and SaaS plus Cortex XDR plus AES (via the Koi acquisition) for endpoints.
Shadow AI discovery
Native, continuous, risk-scored
Real-time inventory of MCPs, LLMs, AI apps, agents, and agent skills across SaaS, browsers, IDEs, and endpoints, with risk mapped to every asset.
Spans across multiple products
AIRS 3.0 discovers agents across cloud, SaaS, and endpoints. Full coverage requires AIRS for cloud and SaaS plus Cortex XDR plus AES (via the Koi acquisition) for endpoints.
Runtime browser protection
Native, on-device
A native browser extension intercepts AI interactions in real time and blocks unsafe prompts or sensitive data before they reach the model.
Full browser swap
Prisma Browser is an entirely new browser that employees must switch to. Not a dedicated AI control plane, not a lightweight extension that works with the browsers employees already use.
Runtime browser protection
Native, on-device
A native browser extension intercepts AI interactions in real time and blocks unsafe prompts or sensitive data before they reach the model.
Full browser swap
Prisma Browser is an entirely new browser that employees must switch to. Not a dedicated AI control plane, not a lightweight extension that works with the browsers employees already use.
Runtime browser protection
Native, on-device
A native browser extension intercepts AI interactions in real time and blocks unsafe prompts or sensitive data before they reach the model.
Full browser swap
Prisma Browser is an entirely new browser that employees must switch to. Not a dedicated AI control plane, not a lightweight extension that works with the browsers employees already use.
Input and output guardrails
Native, continuous, risk-scored
Deep guardrails on both input and output. Catches prompt injection, PII leakage, toxic content, and off-policy responses at the employee endpoint.
Two products stitched
Employee-facing guardrails come from Prisma SASE/AI Access. Model-layer guardrails come from Protect AI. Two separate products from two different stacks being stitched together.
Input and output guardrails
Native, continuous, risk-scored
Deep guardrails on both input and output. Catches prompt injection, PII leakage, toxic content, and off-policy responses at the employee endpoint.
Two products stitched
Employee-facing guardrails come from Prisma SASE/AI Access. Model-layer guardrails come from Protect AI. Two separate products from two different stacks being stitched together.
Input and output guardrails
Native, continuous, risk-scored
Deep guardrails on both input and output. Catches prompt injection, PII leakage, toxic content, and off-policy responses at the employee endpoint.
Two products stitched
Employee-facing guardrails come from Prisma SASE/AI Access. Model-layer guardrails come from Protect AI. Two separate products from two different stacks being stitched together.
Native IDE hooks
Enforce Guardrails across IDEs
Native hooks in Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex & more. Enforce policy, capture agent skill invocations, and block malicious MCP tool calls at execution.
Integration in progress
Agentic Endpoint Security (AES) covers AI coding agents on developer endpoints following the Koi acquisition close. Deep integration with the rest of the AIRS stack is still in progress.
Native IDE hooks
Enforce Guardrails across IDEs
Native hooks in Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex & more. Enforce policy, capture agent skill invocations, and block malicious MCP tool calls at execution.
Integration in progress
Agentic Endpoint Security (AES) covers AI coding agents on developer endpoints following the Koi acquisition close. Deep integration with the rest of the AIRS stack is still in progress.
Native IDE hooks
Enforce Guardrails across IDEs
Native hooks in Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex & more. Enforce policy, capture agent skill invocations, and block malicious MCP tool calls at execution.
Integration in progress
Agentic Endpoint Security (AES) covers AI coding agents on developer endpoints following the Koi acquisition close. Deep integration with the rest of the AIRS stack is still in progress.
Agent builder integrations
Most extensive coverage
Native integrations with AWS Bedrock, Databricks, Snowflake, n8n, LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vertex AI, Copilot, Agentforce, and 20+ others.
Limited coverage
Integrations with select platforms like ServiceNow, IBM watsonx, Glean, Factory, and Google Vertex AI/Agent Engine.
Agent builder integrations
Most extensive coverage
Native integrations with AWS Bedrock, Databricks, Snowflake, n8n, LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vertex AI, Copilot, Agentforce, and 20+ others.
Limited coverage
Integrations with select platforms like ServiceNow, IBM watsonx, Glean, Factory, and Google Vertex AI/Agent Engine.
Agent builder integrations
Most extensive coverage
Native integrations with AWS Bedrock, Databricks, Snowflake, n8n, LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vertex AI, Copilot, Agentforce, and 20+ others.
Limited coverage
Integrations with select platforms like ServiceNow, IBM watsonx, Glean, Factory, and Google Vertex AI/Agent Engine.
AI security proxy
Native inline proxy
Managed inline proxy between agents and their MCPs, tools, and calls. Inspects every request in real time, no code changes. AI gateway integrations extend coverage.
Via Portkey acquisition
Palo Alto closed the Portkey acquisition on Portkey as the foundational AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS. Deep integration with the existing Prisma AIRS stack is in progress.
AI security proxy
Native inline proxy
Managed inline proxy between agents and their MCPs, tools, and calls. Inspects every request in real time, no code changes. AI gateway integrations extend coverage.
Via Portkey acquisition
Palo Alto closed the Portkey acquisition on Portkey as the foundational AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS. Deep integration with the existing Prisma AIRS stack is in progress.
AI security proxy
Native inline proxy
Managed inline proxy between agents and their MCPs, tools, and calls. Inspects every request in real time, no code changes. AI gateway integrations extend coverage.
Via Portkey acquisition
Palo Alto closed the Portkey acquisition on Portkey as the foundational AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS. Deep integration with the existing Prisma AIRS stack is in progress.
MCP security and governance
Per-call authorization
Decides, per call, whether a specific agent can invoke a specific tool on a specific MCP server. MCP servers are first-class policy targets. The MCP Registry acts as an enterprise allowlist.
Static + Portkey runtime
Agent Artifact Scanning provides static pre-deployment scanning of MCP servers. Runtime MCP governance now delivered through the Portkey acquisition. No MCP Registry allowlist mentioned.
MCP security and governance
Per-call authorization
Decides, per call, whether a specific agent can invoke a specific tool on a specific MCP server. MCP servers are first-class policy targets. The MCP Registry acts as an enterprise allowlist.
Static + Portkey runtime
Agent Artifact Scanning provides static pre-deployment scanning of MCP servers. Runtime MCP governance now delivered through the Portkey acquisition. No MCP Registry allowlist mentioned.
MCP security and governance
Per-call authorization
Decides, per call, whether a specific agent can invoke a specific tool on a specific MCP server. MCP servers are first-class policy targets. The MCP Registry acts as an enterprise allowlist.
Static + Portkey runtime
Agent Artifact Scanning provides static pre-deployment scanning of MCP servers. Runtime MCP governance now delivered through the Portkey acquisition. No MCP Registry allowlist mentioned.
AI agent identity governance
Complete identity governance
Discover all NHIs associated with AI Agents, map the identities to its owner, the agent and set identityb policies like rotation, segregation and more.
Idira coming soon
CyberArk acquisition provides Idira for identity. Idira's AIRS integration is explicitly "coming soon" per Palo Alto's own page.
AI agent identity governance
Complete identity governance
Discover all NHIs associated with AI Agents, map the identities to its owner, the agent and set identityb policies like rotation, segregation and more.
Idira coming soon
CyberArk acquisition provides Idira for identity. Idira's AIRS integration is explicitly "coming soon" per Palo Alto's own page.
AI agent identity governance
Complete identity governance
Discover all NHIs associated with AI Agents, map the identities to its owner, the agent and set identityb policies like rotation, segregation and more.
Idira coming soon
CyberArk acquisition provides Idira for identity. Idira's AIRS integration is explicitly "coming soon" per Palo Alto's own page.
Agent and MCP guardrails
Deterministic and AI-mediated
Bidirectional guardrails at every layer of the agent stack: prompt injection, output data leakage, tool-call authorization, Agent Intent Verification, denied topics, custom rules. Every policy tagged to OWASP Agentic Risk categories.
Two engines, still integrating
Built on Protect AI for LLM applications, with agent-specific extensions added in Prisma AIRS 3.0. Runtime tool-call and MCP guardrails now run through the Portkey gateway. Two engines from two acquisitions, still integrating.
Agent and MCP guardrails
Deterministic and AI-mediated
Bidirectional guardrails at every layer of the agent stack: prompt injection, output data leakage, tool-call authorization, Agent Intent Verification, denied topics, custom rules. Every policy tagged to OWASP Agentic Risk categories.
Two engines, still integrating
Built on Protect AI for LLM applications, with agent-specific extensions added in Prisma AIRS 3.0. Runtime tool-call and MCP guardrails now run through the Portkey gateway. Two engines from two acquisitions, still integrating.
Agent and MCP guardrails
Deterministic and AI-mediated
Bidirectional guardrails at every layer of the agent stack: prompt injection, output data leakage, tool-call authorization, Agent Intent Verification, denied topics, custom rules. Every policy tagged to OWASP Agentic Risk categories.
Two engines, still integrating
Built on Protect AI for LLM applications, with agent-specific extensions added in Prisma AIRS 3.0. Runtime tool-call and MCP guardrails now run through the Portkey gateway. Two engines from two acquisitions, still integrating.
Red teaming and offensive testing
4,300+ probes
Actively attacks your own agents. Simulates adversarial inputs, probes tool-call boundaries, tests MCP interactions, identifies exploitable behaviors before production.
500 attacks, LLM-focused
AI Red Teaming via the Protect AI acquisition uses 500+ attack types. 8.6x fewer probes than Akto. Originally built for ML model security.
Red teaming and offensive testing
4,300+ probes
Actively attacks your own agents. Simulates adversarial inputs, probes tool-call boundaries, tests MCP interactions, identifies exploitable behaviors before production.
500 attacks, LLM-focused
AI Red Teaming via the Protect AI acquisition uses 500+ attack types. 8.6x fewer probes than Akto. Originally built for ML model security.
Red teaming and offensive testing
4,300+ probes
Actively attacks your own agents. Simulates adversarial inputs, probes tool-call boundaries, tests MCP interactions, identifies exploitable behaviors before production.
500 attacks, LLM-focused
AI Red Teaming via the Protect AI acquisition uses 500+ attack types. 8.6x fewer probes than Akto. Originally built for ML model security.
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