Mend AI
Secure the layer where AI decisions become application risk
Mend AI automates the discovery of AI components and agents, with risk assessment, prioritized remediation, enforced policy compliance, system prompt hardening, red teaming, and real-time runtime protection unique to your applications.
Increase visibility and control over AI models used in your applications
AI supply chain management
Maintain comprehensive, real-time inventory of every model, framework, and AI agent across your AI supply chain, including hard-to-detect shadow AI, and the tools and MCPs your agents connect to.
Mend AI ties risk directly to what’s actually in your AI supply chain, flagging models nearing or past end-of-life, catching risky agent configurations before they ever reach production, and providing mitigation strategies for licensing, vulnerabilities, and malicious packages, ensuring the safety of AI-powered applications.
System prompt hardening
Harden your system prompts by identifying risks based on their content, structure, or potential for misuse.
Mend AI identifies problematic code and insecure descriptions of AI vulnerabilities to quickly assess and control risks found within AI prompts as part of your broader AI security testing strategy.
AI red teaming
Identify risks unique to your AI powered applications and data for conversational AI with prebuilt, customizable AI security testing.
Verify your application’s security against threats like prompt injection, context leakage, data exfiltration, biases, and hallucinations that can lead to unintended consequences.
AI runtime protection
Catch unsafe behavior the moment an AI model breaks its own rules. Even a well-written prompt isn’t a guarantee.
Mend AI inspects every input before reaching your model and every output before reaching your user, catching prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, sensitive data exposure, and harmful content in real time.
Proactive policies and governance
Ensure your applications adhere to your AI governance policies throughout the software development lifecycle with Mend.io’s robust policy engine and automation workflows.
Define, set, and govern specific rules for all AI components and AI-SPM (AI posture management) protocols used in your applications.
Check your AI security posture
Measure your AI security program against industry frameworks including OWASP, NIST, ISO/IEC, and the EU AI Act. Identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and generate actionable recommendations.
One platform for AI application security
Discovery, prioritization, remediation, governance, and runtime protection in a single platform built on proven application security workflows.
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Secure AI powered applications from risks specific to the use of AI
Mitigate behavioral risk associated with conversational AI
Secure AI generated code without slowing developers down
“One of our most indicative KPIs is the amount of time for us to remediate vulnerabilities and also the amount of time developers spend fixing vulnerabilities in our code base, which has reduced significantly. We’re talking about at least 80% reduction in time.”
“Overall, the product is great. It solves the OSS vulnerabilities, OSS commercial product license restrictions, and is diving deep into AI license and usage vulnerabilities.”
“When the product you sell is an application you develop, your teams need to be fast, secure and compliant. These three factors often work in opposite directions. Mend provides the opportunity to align these often competing factors, providing Vonage with an advantage in a very competitive marketplace.”
“It is one of the easiest and best ways to analyze coding. With AI, it is able to detect security flaws and compliance issues quickly and accurately.”
“The biggest value we get out of Mend is the fast feedback loop, which enables our developers to respond rapidly to any vulnerability or license issues. When a vulnerability or a license is disregarded or blocked, and there is a policy violation, they get the feedback directly.”
Mend AI FAQs
What is Mend AI?
Mend AI is an AI security solution that automates the discovery of AI components and agents — including shadow AI and the tools and MCPs agents connect to — with risk assessment, prioritized remediation, enforced policy compliance, system prompt hardening, red teaming, and real-time runtime protection across the AI software development lifecycle.
How does Mend AI detect shadow AI in my applications?
Mend AI scans your code to surface AI models and libraries that developers have adopted without security or governance review. It maps each discovered component into your AI supply chain, ties it to specific applications, and applies your policy controls.
Does Mend AI generate an AI Bill of Materials (AI-BOM)?
Yes. Mend AI automatically produces an AI-BOM — a structured inventory of every AI model, framework, dataset, and dependency your application uses — and keeps it continuously updated as code changes. The AI-BOM supports compliance with the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and customer security questionnaires.
How does Mend AI perform red teaming?
Mend AI runs prebuilt, customizable AI red teaming scenarios against your conversational AI to probe for risks like prompt injection, context leakage, data exfiltration, jailbreaks, hallucinations, and bias. Tests can be tailored to your application’s data and intended behavior, and results feed directly into the same policy and remediation workflows used for code findings.
How does Mend AI harden system prompts?
Mend AI analyzes the content and structure of system prompts, scores each one for risk using AIWE scoring, identifies insecure patterns (e.g., injection-prone instructions or leak-prone phrasing), and recommends hardened alternatives. System prompt hardening is enforced before prompts reach production through the platform’s policy engine.
Does Mend AI protect AI applications at runtime?
Yes. Mend AI inspects every input before it reaches your model and every output before it reaches your user, catching prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, sensitive data exposure, and harmful content in real time. Runtime guardrails extend the same policy engine used for discovery and remediation to live AI interactions.
Can Mend AI secure AI agents and the MCPs they connect to?
Yes. Mend AI discovers every AI agent in your applications, along with the tools and MCPs each agent connects to, and adds them to your AI supply chain inventory. It catches risky agent configurations before they reach production and applies the same policy controls used for models and frameworks.
Which AI security frameworks and regulations does Mend AI map to?
Mend AI measures your AI security program against industry frameworks including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act. The AI security assessment identifies compliance gaps, prioritizes improvements, and generates regulatory-aligned recommendations your team can act on.
