Ferentin

Ferentin is an American enterprise AI security platform focused on runtime governance for AI agents. According to its official website, the company positions itself around the idea that "trustworthy agents need trustworthy infrastructure," offering a platform that governs, enforces and audits every action an AI agent takes, from prompt to tool call. Its product set includes an LLM Router, an MCP Server Gateway, and a Slack integration described as "a governed agent your security team approves." The company states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and VAPT assessed. The problem Ferentin addresses is that conventional security stacks cannot see what AI agents actually do. An agent may read a database, call an external API and push to production within a single context window, while a firewall only observes HTTPS traffic to sanctioned endpoints. Ferentin argues that model safety alone is insufficient because a well-trained model can still be exploited through an overly permissive tool or an exposed environment. It highlights four specific gaps: invisible intent (security stacks see network traffic, not AI behavior), identity that ends at the front door (identity providers guard initial access but do not continuously evaluate what an agent does next), no receipts (AI interactions are black boxes with nothing to review when something goes wrong), and toxic flow (dangerous combinations of tools and data in an agent's context that enable prompt injection, exfiltration and tool misuse). Ferentin's answer is to sit between agents and everything they touch, so that every request is authenticated, authorized and logged, and access happens by policy rather than by hope. The platform is designed to work with major AI assistants and identity providers, with the homepage referencing ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Okta, Entra ID, Ping Identity and Google Enterprise Identity. Ferentin offers a free getting-started tier alongside a book-a-demo enterprise motion, indicating a product-led approach aimed at security-conscious organizations adopting AI agents. As an enterprise AI security vendor, Ferentin operates in the fast-growing market for AI governance, agent security and runtime policy enforcement. Its emphasis on auditability, continuous authorization and policy-based access reflects broader enterprise concerns about deploying autonomous agents safely. The company is privately held and, based on available evidence, is an early-stage or growth-stage software vendor rather than a public company.

Ferentin is an American enterprise AI security platform. Public evidence about the company is currently limited to its official website and a Wikidata entry describing it as an "American enterprise AI security platform." The company's own homepage presents its mission as providing runtime governance for AI agents, built on the premise that "trustworthy agents need trustworthy infrastructure." Ferentin's emergence reflects the rapid enterprise adoption of AI agents — autonomous or semi-autonomous software that can read databases, call external APIs and take actions in production systems. As organizations began connecting large language models to tools and data, a security gap became apparent: traditional firewalls and identity providers were designed for human users and conventional applications, not for agents that chain together multiple actions within a single context window. Ferentin was founded to address this gap by placing a governance layer between agents and the systems they touch. The company's platform authenticates, authorizes and logs every request an agent makes, so that access is granted by policy rather than by assumption. Its product lineup includes an LLM Router, an MCP Server Gateway, and a Slack integration marketed as "a governed agent your security team approves." Ferentin states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and VAPT assessed, signaling a compliance-oriented posture aimed at enterprise security buyers. Ferentin frames the problem in terms of four failure modes: invisible intent, identity that ends at the front door, no receipts, and toxic flow. These describe, respectively, the inability of network security to observe AI behavior; the lack of continuous access evaluation after an agent is admitted; the absence of an audit trail for AI interactions; and the dangerous combination of tools and data that enables prompt injection, exfiltration and tool misuse. Ferentin's answer is to enforce trust at every layer, integrating with AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity and with identity providers such as Okta, Entra ID, Ping Identity and Google Enterprise Identity. Specific founding dates, founders, headquarters location, funding history and executive leadership are not established by the available evidence and are therefore not asserted here. The company appears to be privately held and active, offering a free getting-started tier and enterprise demos.

Enterprise runtime governance and security for AI agents, enforcing authentication, authorization and audit from prompt to tool call.

• LLM Router

  A router for large language model traffic, part of Ferentin's runtime governance platform.

• MCP Server Gateway

  A gateway for Model Context Protocol servers, governing agent access to tools and data.

• Ferentin for Slack

  A Slack integration described as a governed agent approved by security teams.

1. 1Ferentin | Runtime Governance for AI Agentsferentin.com
2. 2Ferentin - Wikidatawikidata.org