# Cyber Company Profiles: garak (NVIDIA)

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## At a Glance

- Website: [github.com](https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/nvidia/garak
- Company: [NVIDIA](https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/nvidia)
- Market readiness: Emerging (23/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (8/21)
- Last updated: 2026-07-05

## Executive Summary

NVIDIA's garak is one of the most widely used open-source scanners for large-language-model weaknesses, and because it is free it is a credibility play for NVIDIA rather than a business. It runs a library of over a hundred known attack probes at a model and reports what got through. It earns no revenue, so its return is the standing it buys in AI security rather than a product line. That design has a ceiling. garak leans on a curated library of known-class probes, and an independent comparison notes it does not generate the novel, application-specific attacks an application-aware tool like Promptfoo produces. It leads on breadth and research pedigree while rivals compete on tailoring attacks to each deployment.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Market Readiness

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

**Emerging (23/40)**

Analyzed 2026-06-27. Scope: garak.

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

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at this line'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 (8/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-05. Scope: garak.

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

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## Sources

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [NVIDIA/garak repository](https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak) “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, jailbreaks, and many other weaknesses. If you know nmap or Metasploit, garak does similar things for LLMs.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s2 | [GitHub API: NVIDIA/garak repository metrics](https://api.github.com/repos/NVIDIA/garak) “stargazers_count: 8242, forks_count: 1049, license: Apache-2.0, created_at: 2023-05-10, pushed_at: 2026-06-26” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s3 | [garak: A Framework for Security Probing Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11036) “garak: A Framework for Security Probing Large Language Models. Authors: Leon Derczynski, Erick Galinkin, Jeffrey Martin, Subho Majumdar, Nanna Inie. This paper introduces garak, the Generative AI Red-teaming and Assessment Kit.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s4 | [Fujitsu Research comparative evaluation of LLM red-teaming tools (RAIE 2025)](https://arxiv.org/html/2410.16527v2) “Garak excels in vulnerability coverage with over 20 specific attack-evaluation pairs, focusing on jailbreak attacks grounded in established research. It focuses on static attacks and static evaluators. High error rates in the evaluator component are evident across all tools.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s5 | [netguardia: The best AI red-teaming tools of 2026](https://netguardia.com/security-operations/software-tools/the-best-ai-red-teaming-tools-of-2026-from-garak-to-promptfoo/) “Garak is the most mature open-source LLM scanner. These are static, research-backed attacks, which is both the strength and the constraint, Garak finds known classes of vulnerabilities consistently, but it doesn't generate novel attacks tuned to your specific application.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s6 | [Help Net Security: garak open-source LLM vulnerability scanner](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/10/garak-open-source-llm-vulnerability-scanner/) “Garak is a free, open-source tool designed to test these weaknesses. It checks for problems like hallucinations, prompt injections, jailbreaks, and toxic outputs. Garak is available for free on GitHub.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s7 | [Databricks engineering tutorial: applying NVIDIA's garak to LLMs on Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/ai-security-action-applying-nvidias-garak-llms-databricks) “NVIDIA's AI Red Team introduced Garak, the Generative AI Red-teaming and Assessment Kit. Garak is an open-source tool designed to probe LLMs for vulnerabilities. The probe corpus consists of more than 150 different attacks.” | other | 2026-06-27 |
| s8 | [Promptfoo vs garak comparison (Promptfoo is now part of OpenAI)](https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/promptfoo-vs-garak/) “Garak focuses on known LLM exploits. Approach: Curated library of research-backed attacks. Attack Generation: Static with buff perturbations. Agent Security: Limited. License: Apache-2.0.” | other | 2026-06-27 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [NVIDIA/garak repository](https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak) “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, jailbreaks, and many other weaknesses. If you know nmap or Metasploit, garak does similar things for LLMs.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s2 | [GitHub API: NVIDIA/garak repository metrics](https://api.github.com/repos/NVIDIA/garak) “stargazers_count: 8242, forks_count: 1049, license: Apache-2.0, created_at: 2023-05-10, pushed_at: 2026-06-26” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s3 | [garak: A Framework for Security Probing Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11036) “garak: A Framework for Security Probing Large Language Models. Authors: Leon Derczynski, Erick Galinkin, Jeffrey Martin, Subho Majumdar, Nanna Inie. This paper introduces garak, the Generative AI Red-teaming and Assessment Kit.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s4 | [Fujitsu Research comparative evaluation of LLM red-teaming tools (RAIE 2025)](https://arxiv.org/html/2410.16527v2) “Garak excels in vulnerability coverage with over 20 specific attack-evaluation pairs, focusing on jailbreak attacks grounded in established research. It focuses on static attacks and static evaluators. High error rates in the evaluator component are evident across all tools.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s5 | [netguardia: The best AI red-teaming tools of 2026](https://netguardia.com/security-operations/software-tools/the-best-ai-red-teaming-tools-of-2026-from-garak-to-promptfoo/) “Garak is the most mature open-source LLM scanner. These are static, research-backed attacks, which is both the strength and the constraint, Garak finds known classes of vulnerabilities consistently, but it doesn't generate novel attacks tuned to your specific application.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s6 | [Help Net Security: garak open-source LLM vulnerability scanner](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/10/garak-open-source-llm-vulnerability-scanner/) “Garak is a free, open-source tool designed to test these weaknesses. It checks for problems like hallucinations, prompt injections, jailbreaks, and toxic outputs. Garak is available for free on GitHub.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s7 | [Databricks engineering tutorial: applying NVIDIA's garak to LLMs on Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/ai-security-action-applying-nvidias-garak-llms-databricks) “NVIDIA's AI Red Team introduced Garak, the Generative AI Red-teaming and Assessment Kit. Garak is an open-source tool designed to probe LLMs for vulnerabilities. The probe corpus consists of more than 150 different attacks.” | other | 2026-06-27 |
| s8 | [Promptfoo vs garak comparison (Promptfoo is now part of OpenAI)](https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/promptfoo-vs-garak/) “Garak focuses on known LLM exploits. Approach: Curated library of research-backed attacks. Attack Generation: Static with buff perturbations. Agent Security: Limited. License: Apache-2.0.” | other | 2026-06-27 |

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