Saoud Khalifah, the founder of Fakespot that was acquired by Mozilla in 2023, announced today the launch of his new company, Ciphero. Founded with a mission to address the security gap created by the rapid adoption of AI in enterprise environments and the lack of verification to ensure secure AI use, Ciphero is pioneering the first enterprise-grade system that dynamically verifies all AI interactions, whether human or agentic, to safeguard against AI-related data loss and attacks.
Rob Gross, Saoud’s co-founder from Fakespot, joins Ciphero as a co-founder and COO along with Dr. Sen Tian as a co-founder and CAIO. Early strategic backers include Sovereign’s Capital and Chingona Ventures, who co-led Ciphero’s oversubscribed pre-seed round of $2.5 million.
Ciphero is the first AI Verification Layer that captures, verifies, and governs all enterprise AI interactions including Shadow AI and agentic deployments to encourage safe and ethical AI usage for all organizations. Enterprises can use Ciphero to safely integrate AI into the workplace while preventing sensitive data leaks and maintaining compliance standards such as SOC 2. The Ciphero team is working with select design partners to secure their AI enterprise-wide, encourage authorized AI usage, and identify new areas for AI investment.
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The Growing Enterprise AI Security Gap
GenAI and agentic AI are becoming increasingly commonplace across organizations. Currently, 62% of organizations leverage agentic AI internally, with projections indicating that 100% of enterprise IT operations will be heavily influenced by AI within the next five years.
Despite growing adoption and usage, enterprise AI governance today is both limited and static – unable to effectively govern rapidly-evolving tools like GenAI and agentic AI. Today, despite 78% of AI users bringing their own tools to the workplace, 97% of people report their organization lacked the proper AI access controls and 63% of these firms are entirely devoid of an internal AI governance framework.
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