# Cyber Company Profiles: Adversa AI

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## At a Glance

- Website: [adversa.ai](https://adversa.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/adversa-ai
- Type: Security for AI
- Market readiness: Established (25/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (12/21)
- Founded: 2021
- Funding: $0.2M total
- Last updated: 2026-07-11

## Executive Summary

Adversa AI is better known for its research than its sales. A 2023 academic paper cites its Universal LLM Jailbreak, independent outlets covered its Grok and SymJack disclosures, and its CTO is credited with co-inventing the SSRF vulnerability class and co-leading the CoSAI agentic-security work. That record gives a small company a public profile larger than its size. The commercial proof has not caught up: no named paying customer appears in public sources, the disclosed funding is a single raise of roughly $200,000, and the closest independent rivals were pulled into suites in 2025, Protect AI acquired and Lakera under an announced agreement. Adversa sells red teaming that answers to no AI platform, to buyers who can increasingly get it bundled into software they already pay for.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Adversa AI runs continuous red teaming for the custom AI agents companies build, testing vulnerability classes across the agent, model, and MCP and re-scanning after every model, prompt, or tool update. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2021 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Tel Aviv, Israel | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $0.2M total | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Approximately $200,000 (round type undisclosed) | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Deployment | SaaS | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Compliance | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Adversa AI | Adversa AI: Continuous AI red teaming platform for custom AI agents that tests for vulnerability classes across agents, models, and MCP, re-scanning on every model, prompt, or tool update. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Orchestration Tools |  |  |  | ✓ |  |  |
| AI Model |  |  |  | ✓ |  |  |

Adversa AI is a continuous AI red teaming platform for custom AI agents that tests for vulnerability classes across agents, models, and MCP, re-scanning on every model, prompt, or tool update. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (25/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-08. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof | 2/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Exposed (12/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-11. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Adversa AI: Continuous AI red teaming platform for Agentic AI](https://adversa.ai/ai-red-teaming-agentic-ai/) | official | 2026-07-09 |
| f2 | [CTech (Calcalist) RoadShow+ profile stating Adversa AI's 2021 founding](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/xynqn2obu) | press | 2026-06-29 |
| f3 | [Adversa AI about page](https://adversa.ai/about-us/) | official | 2026-06-13 |
| f4 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/adversa-ai/) | other | 2026-06-13 |
| f5 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/adversa-ai/) | other | 2026-06-23 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Adversa AI homepage, security platform for custom AI agents](https://adversa.ai/) “Adversa AI delivers continuous red teaming and remediation for the custom AI agents your business runs on. We help you ship AI at scale without shipping risk.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s2 | [Adversa AI platform page, on-prem attack engine and six-figure framing](https://adversa.ai/ai-red-teaming-agentic-ai/) “Our engine invents novel vulnerabilities using its own on-prem AI models, not relying on external providers, then prioritizes every finding by real business impact. What used to be a one-time, six-figure engagement is now a continuously operating product.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s3 | [About Adversa, co-founder and CTO Alex Polyakov](https://adversa.ai/about-us/) “A recognized industry expert, he has spoken at BlackHat, RSA, and 100+ similar events, co-invented the SSRF vulnerability class.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s4 | [Adversa AI platform page, standards-body roles](https://adversa.ai/ai-red-teaming-agentic-ai/) “Adversa AI experts are co-leads and core members of industry-defining frameworks and initiatives: NIST AI RMF, OWAS ASI, CoSAI, CSA AI CM.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s5 | [Adversa AI Trusted AI research blog, SymJack RCE and AIRQ report](https://adversa.ai/blog/) “SymJack: the approval prompt is lying to you. A symlink-hijack RCE in six AI coding agents. We tested six major tools. All were vulnerable.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [Adversa AI security and trust center, attestations and gated reports](https://adversa.ai/security-trust/) “We’re certified under ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and we maintain continuous compliance monitoring to uphold the global standards your business depends on.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s7 | [Futurism on Adversa AI red teaming of xAI Grok 3](https://futurism.com/elon-musk-new-grok-ai-vulnerable-jailbreak-hacking) “Adversa AI found that three out of the four jailbreak techniques it tried worked against the model. In contrast, OpenAI and Anthropic’s AI models managed to ward off all four.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s8 | [The Register on Adversa AI jailbreak testing across major chatbots](https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/elon_musk_grok_ai/) “Grok was found to be vulnerable to all the rest, as was Mistral’s Le Chat. Grok still did the worst, Polyakov said, because it didn’t need jail-breaking to return results for hot-wiring, bomb making, or drug extraction.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s9 | [SecurityWeek on Adversa AI’s SymJack supply-chain attack](https://www.securityweek.com/symjack-attack-turns-ai-coding-agents-into-supply-chain-attack-delivery-systems/) “Malicious repositories are a frequent factor in many supply chain attacks, estimated at between 20% and 40%. That is just one possibility of the SymJack attack described by Adversa AI.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s10 | [KuppingerCole vendor profile of Adversa AI](https://www.kuppingercole.com/vendors/adversa) “Adversa AI is an AI security company focused on protecting generative and agentic AI systems through continuous automated red teaming, threat intelligence, and runtime guardrails that help organizations detect and mitigate prompt-based and content-related attacks across GenAI applications.” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s11 | [Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail? (academic paper citing Adversa)](https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2307.02483) “Adversa. Universal LLM jailbreak: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, Bing, Anthropic, and beyond. Adversa Blog, 2023.” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s12 | [CTech (Calcalist) RoadShow+ profile stating Adversa AI’s founding and raise](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/xynqn2obu) “Founded in 2021 by Daniel Rubinstein and Alex Polyakov, Adversa AI raised approximately $200,000.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s13 | [Check Point press release on its agreement to acquire Lakera](https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-deliver-end-to-end-ai-security-for-enterprises/) “Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Lakera, one of the world’s leading AI-native security platforms for Agentic AI applications.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s14 | [Palo Alto Networks press release completing the Protect AI acquisition](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2025/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-protect-ai) “The integration of Protect AI’s forward-thinking technology and its team of experts will be a cornerstone of Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s15 | [Adversa AI Global InfoSec Awards announcement during RSA Conference 2026](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/adversa-ai-wins-most-innovative-agentic-ai-security-platform-at-global-infosec-awards-during-rsa-conference-2026-302730963.html) “Adversa AI was selected among hundreds of cybersecurity vendors worldwide for its Agentic AI security platform, which helps organizations continuously test and secure autonomous AI agents.” | other | 2026-06-29 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Adversa AI homepage: security platform for custom AI agents](https://adversa.ai/) “Adversa AI delivers continuous red teaming and remediation for the custom AI agents your business runs on. We help you ship AI at scale without shipping risk.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s2 | [Adversa AI platform page: on-prem engine, six-figure framing, industry trust bar](https://adversa.ai/ai-red-teaming-agentic-ai/) “Our engine invents novel vulnerabilities using its own on-prem AI models, not relying on external providers, then prioritizes every finding by real business impact. What used to be a one-time, six-figure engagement is now a continuously operating product.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s3 | [About Adversa: co-founder and CTO Alex Polyakov](https://adversa.ai/about-us/) “A recognized industry expert, he has spoken at BlackHat, RSA, and 100+ similar events, co-invented the SSRF vulnerability class.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s4 | [Adversa AI platform page: standards-body roles](https://adversa.ai/ai-red-teaming-agentic-ai/) “Adversa AI experts are co-leads and core members of industry-defining frameworks and initiatives: NIST AI RMF, OWAS ASI, CoSAI, CSA AI CM.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s5 | [Adversa AI Trusted AI research blog: SymJack RCE, AIRQ report](https://adversa.ai/blog/) “SymJack: the approval prompt is lying to you. A symlink-hijack RCE in six AI coding agents. We tested six major tools. All were vulnerable.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [Adversa AI security and trust center: attestations and gated reports](https://adversa.ai/security-trust/) “We’re certified under ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and we maintain continuous compliance monitoring to uphold the global standards your business depends on.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s7 | [Futurism on Adversa AI red teaming of xAI Grok 3](https://futurism.com/elon-musk-new-grok-ai-vulnerable-jailbreak-hacking) “Adversa AI found that three out of the four jailbreak techniques it tried worked against the model. In contrast, OpenAI and Anthropic’s AI models managed to ward off all four.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s8 | [The Register on Adversa AI jailbreak testing across major chatbots](https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/elon_musk_grok_ai/) “Grok was found to be vulnerable to all the rest, as was Mistral’s Le Chat. Grok still did the worst, Polyakov said, because it didn’t need jail-breaking to return results for hot-wiring, bomb making, or drug extraction.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s9 | [SecurityWeek on Adversa AI’s SymJack supply-chain attack](https://www.securityweek.com/symjack-attack-turns-ai-coding-agents-into-supply-chain-attack-delivery-systems/) “Malicious repositories are a frequent factor in many supply chain attacks, estimated at between 20% and 40%. That is just one possibility of the SymJack attack described by Adversa AI.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s10 | [KuppingerCole vendor profile of Adversa AI](https://www.kuppingercole.com/vendors/adversa) “Adversa AI is an AI security company focused on protecting generative and agentic AI systems through continuous automated red teaming, threat intelligence, and runtime guardrails that help organizations detect and mitigate prompt-based and content-related attacks across GenAI applications.” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s11 | [Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail? (academic paper citing Adversa)](https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2307.02483) “Adversa. Universal LLM jailbreak: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, Bing, Anthropic, and beyond. Adversa Blog, 2023.” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s12 | [CTech (Calcalist) RoadShow+ profile stating Adversa AI’s founding and raise](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/xynqn2obu) “Founded in 2021 by Daniel Rubinstein and Alex Polyakov, Adversa AI raised approximately $200,000.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s13 | [Check Point press release on its agreement to acquire Lakera](https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-deliver-end-to-end-ai-security-for-enterprises/) “Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Lakera, one of the world’s leading AI-native security platforms for Agentic AI applications.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s14 | [Palo Alto Networks press release completing the Protect AI acquisition](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2025/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-protect-ai) “The integration of Protect AI’s forward-thinking technology and its team of experts will be a cornerstone of Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s15 | [Adversa AI Global InfoSec Awards announcement during RSA Conference 2026](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/adversa-ai-wins-most-innovative-agentic-ai-security-platform-at-global-infosec-awards-during-rsa-conference-2026-302730963.html) “Adversa AI was selected among hundreds of cybersecurity vendors worldwide for its Agentic AI security platform, which helps organizations continuously test and secure autonomous AI agents.” | other | 2026-06-29 |

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