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THE SHORT VERSION
Latio named Lava a 2026 AI Security Market Disruptor and places us in the emerging AI Data Center Configuration category. In its spotlight, Latio highlights Lava’s approach to bringing cloud-style posture, misconfiguration detection, and attack-path context to neoclouds and data centers, including the GPU infrastructure underneath AI.
Why This Report Is Worth Your Time
With roughly 400 AI security startups in the market, it’s getting harder to tell what each company actually does and where it fits. Latio cuts through that by testing the products, speaking with practitioners and buyers, and mapping the market around real use cases and outcomes.
It’s practical too: clear vendor maps, buyer guides, and honest trade-offs between different approaches. It even tells buyers to test runtime detection claims for themselves.
AI Security Keeps Moving Down The Stack
A year ago, much of AI security was about the browser: who was using ChatGPT, what data was going in, and how to control shadow AI. Latio describes 2026 as a second era, with the focus shifting to agents like Claude Code and Codex that run locally, use credentials, interact with developer tools, and take action.
That shift expands the security boundary. Every agent and model ultimately depends on infrastructure: GPUs, servers, networking, storage, virtualization, firmware, and the management systems underneath them.
Latio makes that shift concrete by naming AI Data Center Configuration as an emerging capability, covering BMC access, GPU settings and firmware management as more organizations self-host AI infrastructure or use neoclouds.
That’s The Part We’re Excited About
Latio named Lava a 2026 AI Security Market Disruptor.
What makes the recognition especially meaningful is where Latio places Lava: in the emerging AI Data Center Configuration category, giving the infrastructure underneath AI a clear place in the broader AI security conversation.
Securing an AI environment should not stop at the model, the application, or the agent. You also need to know what it is running on: which GPUs, which hosts, which firmware, which BMCs, which switches, which management plane, and which identities can reach them. And, more importantly, how all of those things connect.
That is the problem Lava was built around: bringing cloud-style visibility, posture management, and attack-path context to neoclouds and data centers across network, compute, identity, virtualization, firmware, storage and more.
“Lava delivers the in-depth posture and misconfiguration capabilities that cloud security tools popularized back to data centers, which has never had an equivalent.”
LATIO, 2026 AI SECURITY MARKET REPORT
What Comes Next
AI infrastructure is growing quickly, and so is the security problem around it.
We’re proud to be recognized by Latio as a 2026 AI Security Market Disruptor, and excited to keep building for the data centers and neoclouds powering what comes next.
