30-07-2025
Pangea unveils AIDR platform to strengthen generative AI security
Pangea has launched its AI Detection and Response (AIDR) platform as enterprise adoption of generative AI (GenAI) continues to rise.
The platform has been designed to address security challenges resulting from increased use of GenAI tools in the workplace, as well as to provide oversight and controls for an expanding set of generative AI applications. Pangea AIDR supports monitoring and response capabilities for employee use of AI, internally developed applications, so-called AI factories, and other deployment environments across organisations.
Addressing new threats
The firm states that existing enterprise security controls do not provide sufficient coverage for certain GenAI threats, including indirect prompt injection and excessive agency – scenarios where users or systems might manipulate large language models (LLMs) in unintended ways. The new platform is aimed at closing these visibility gaps by enabling security teams to monitor and govern AI use more proactively. "With GenAI we're witnessing the fastest software adoption curve in history - but also the fastest-growing security blind spot," said Oliver Friedrichs, Founder and CEO of Pangea. "Pangea AIDR is the first unified AI security platform to serve both security teams concerned about employee use of GenAI, and product teams to protect homegrown AI workloads. The platform fits seamlessly into existing security operation workflows and technology stacks, and is part of a larger wave of innovations we're bringing to market to address the AI attack surface."
Capabilities of the platform
Pangea AIDR is built around Pangea's core AI Guard technology, and utilises a network of AI sensors to deliver telemetry to a detection and response engine. Alerts and logs can be viewed from an analyst console, and the platform offers capabilities for automation of response actions where required.
The platform's main features include detection and classification of GenAI usage across browsers, applications, agents, gateways, and cloud infrastructure. This allows teams to track which tools are in use, when, and how.
From a security policy standpoint, AIDR provides a unified control plane to apply consistent access and data management policies across LLMs, agentic applications, shadow AI, and development environments. In terms of defence, the detection engine is set up to intercept prompt injection attacks, jailbreaks, data leakage, and additional threats specific to GenAI platforms.
Early access sensors available at launch include capabilities for monitoring browser-based AI activity (including Chrome), integration with developer-built agentic frameworks, cloud log analysis for services such as AWS Bedrock, protection for AI gateways, and support for direct integration with application-level AI through SDKs. Observability for cloud-native AI is provided via OTEL log format ingestion.
Pangea states it is planning further integrations during the third quarter of 2025, which will extend support to tools including GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Edge, and additional enterprise AI end points.
Industry viewpoints
The need for greater visibility into AI usage in enterprise settings was supported by remarks from industry stakeholders. Sebastian Goodwin, Chief Trust Officer at Autodesk, said: "Rapid AI technology adoption in the enterprise has created significant visibility challenges for security teams and introduced new threats like indirect prompt injection that can evade existing security controls. It is clear now that this growing AI attack surface demands its own visibility, detection and response strategy."
Security research and leadership team
Pangea has aligned the launch of AIDR with an expansion of its internal security research division, Pangea Labs. The company has also introduced new red teaming services for AI systems and protections specific to new forms of attacks, including image injection attacks targeting LLMs. In these cases, malicious code is inserted into images processed by the AI model, representing another risk vector for enterprises.
The platform and research portfolio are led by a team including Dr. James A. Hoagland, responsible for AI threat taxonomy and methodology, and Joey Melo, described as the only participant to escape Pangea's three-room prompt injection challenge. The broader leadership includes Founder and CEO Oliver Friedrichs, Co-Founder and CTO Sourabh Satish, and Chief Product Officer Robert Truesdell.
