Last updated: 7 November 2026. Facts are vendor claims checked on that date; nothing was tested independently.

Straiker (Ascend AI)

Agent-first automated red teaming.

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What it tests

Claimed on the vendor's own pages. Nothing here was tested independently.

• Prompt injection
• Agent / tool abuse
• Data leakage
• MCP and inter-agent attacks
• Goal hijacking

Framework mappings

OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act.

Offering

• Ascend AI runs continuous, scheduled or CI/CD-triggered tests of agentic apps.
• Findings feed its Defend AI runtime product.

Pricing

Not public. Not public; a free AI risk assessment is offered. Free tier: unclear. A free AI risk assessment is offered; scope not stated. See what AI red teaming costs.

Ownership history

Ownership was not stated on the pages opened; the company appears independent.

Alternatives

Three vendors with a similar offering type and overlapping coverage. Chosen by category and claimed coverage, then alphabetically; no ranking is implied.

• Cisco AI Defense

  Automated platform Robust Intelligence acquired by Cisco

  Red teaming as a validation feature of a broad enterprise AI security suite.

• Giskard

  Automated platform Independent

  Combines LLM quality testing (hallucination, RAG) with automated adversarial probing. It suits teams that want an open-source starting point.

• HiddenLayer

  Automated platform Independent

  A broad AI security platform. Red teaming runs as continuous, automated attack simulation alongside model supply-chain scanning and runtime defense.