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NVIDIA's AI security shows up here as two free open-source tools rather than a commercial product line: garak, which attacks a language model to find its weaknesses, and NeMo Guardrails, which sits in front of a model at runtime to block unsafe input and output. Both ship free and open source on their project pages, no direct revenue from either appears in the cited record, and their documented tie is into NVIDIA's broader NeMo tooling, so they read as ecosystem positioning rather than a business of their own. The two cover opposite sides of the same problem, offense and defense, which is the unusual shape of this portfolio. This page covers those two tools. NVIDIA's wider security work, including Morpheus, is not analyzed here.
| Description | NVIDIA ships open-source AI security tools, including garak, a generative-AI red-teaming and assessment kit that probes language models for prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, toxicity, and misinformation. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Self-hosted | [f2] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| garak | garak: Open-source LLM vulnerability scanner from NVIDIA that probes models for prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, toxicity, and misinformation using static, dynamic, and adaptive probes. |
| NeMo Guardrails | NeMo Guardrails: Open-source NVIDIA toolkit that adds programmable input, dialog, retrieval, execution, and output rails to LLM applications, with built-in jailbreak and content safety checks. |
AI Defense Matrix
| Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain. | ||||||
| AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices. | ||||||
| AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD. | ||||||
| AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic. | ||||||
| AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes. | ||||||
| Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning. | ||||||
| Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history. | ||||||
| AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools. |
NeMo Guardrails adds programmable input, dialog, retrieval, execution, and output rails to LLM applications with built-in jailbreak and content safety checks, and garak probes models for prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage. These lines are mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f3]
Each line is scored on its own and compares head-to-head with rivals in its category. The page groups the lines rather than averaging them, because the spread across them is the point.
| Security line | Market readiness | Defensibility |
|---|---|---|
| NeMo Guardrails | ||
| garak |
These are the security lines we've analyzed so far, not a complete map of this company's security portfolio. Not yet analyzed: NVIDIA Morpheus, NVIDIA Confidential Computing.
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | garak repository | official | 2026-06-25 |
| f2 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry | other | 2026-06-09 |
| f3 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping | other | 2026-06-23 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | NVIDIA/garak repository “garak checks if an LLM can be made to fail in a way we don't want. garak probes for hallucination, data leakage, prompt injection, misinformation, toxicity generation, jailbreaks, and many other weaknesses.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s2 | NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails repository “NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s3 | TechTarget: Nvidia launches new NIM Microservices in NeMo Guardrails “The new microservices include the content safety NIM, topic control NIM and jailbreak detection NIM.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s4 | Channel Insider: NVIDIA announces NIM microservices for NeMo Guardrails (Amdocs) “By integrating NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails into our amAIz platform, we are enhancing the platform's Trusted AI capabilities for safe, reliable agentic experiences.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
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