UPDATED 09:00 EDT / JUNE 24 2025

SECURITY

Snyk acquires Invariant Labs to expand AI agent security capabilities

Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Invariant Labs AG, a Swiss artificial intelligence security research firm, for an undisclosed price.

Spun off as a separate company from ETH Zurich university in 2024, Invariant Labs builds tools and frameworks to help developers construct secure, robust and reliable AI agents. The company is also an early pioneer in developing safeguards against emerging AI threats such as tool poisoning and Model Context Protocol vulnerabilities with contextualized AI security.

Invariant Labs offers a suite of tools that are designed to help developers observe, audit and secure AI agents and applications. The company’s main offering, called Explorer, offers a runtime observability dashboard that lets teams inspect the behavior of large language models and agentic systems in real time, capturing tool usage, decisions and context.

Another tool, called Gateway, complements Explorer with a lightweight proxy that routes application programming interface traffic and enforces security policies without requiring code changes, enabling rapid deployment and monitoring.

The company also offers Guardrails, a policy engine that allows developers to define and enforce contextual rules around AI behavior, such as restricting data flow, limiting tool access, or flagging anomalous decisions. Another key product, MCP-Scan, targets MCP vulnerabilities by detecting threats such as tool poisoning and “MCP rug pulls,” which can compromise AI agents during tool calling or prompt chaining.

“We’ve spent years researching and building the frameworks necessary to secure the AI-native future,” said said Invariant co-founder and Chief Executive Marc Fisher. “We understand agent systems as a new type of software that requires novel and innovative approaches to provide strong security guarantees.”

This acquisition will advance Snyk’s mission to secure the next generation of AI-native and agentic applications, including large language model integrations and autonomous agents powering modern software development. Though not solely a talent acquisition, Snyk will also benefit from Invariant Labs’ team of researchers who, the company says, have a proven track record of industry-first intelligence on agentic attack vectors, MCP tooling and real-time detection techniques that Snyk says are now shaping security standards across the industry.

“With Invariant Labs, we’re accelerating our ability to identify, pressure test and neutralize the next generation of AI threats before they reach production,” said Snyk Chief Innovation Officer Manoj Nair. “This investment deepens our leadership in AI security innovation, rooted in original research, technical rigor and developer trust.”

Nair spoke with Dave Vellante, co-host of theCUBE and chief analyst at theCUBE Research, last year about how cloud computing has affected security:

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