Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendor Cato Networks has announced the acquisition of AIM Security, an Israeli startup focusing on AI security at a private fee.
The deal marked the first acquisition of Cato Network, which recently surpassed its $300 million recurring revenues per year, securing an additional $50 million investment from Acrew Capital, bringing Series G total funding to $409 million.
Founded in 2022, AIM Security has established itself as a leading player in AI security, focusing on dealing with the evolving AI attack surface.
AIM's security features are integrated into the CATO SASE cloud platform to help businesses securely adopt AI agents and public and private AI applications at a time when SASE adoption continues to rise.
“The AI transformation will overturn the digital transformation as a mainstay of shaping businesses over the next decade,” announced Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks. “With the acquisition of AIM Security, the SASE platform has advanced AI security capabilities, ensuring our customers' journey into a new and exciting age of AI.”
Aiming for security AI
Supported by a unified, sophisticated core engine and supported by a dedicated research team, AIM security offers spanning a variety of use cases and work to ensure the agent AI development lifecycle using public AI applications, private AI applications, AI agents, and AI security attitude management (AI-SPM).
Employees can safely use public and enterprise AI agents such as Microsoft Copilot, develop new AI coding agents such as Cursor, and use Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to utilize local agents.
The AIM AI Firewall protects internal AI applications and agents against runtime attacks and enforces corporate security and governance policies for all interactions.
Additionally, the solution works to ensure the entire development lifecycle, from training ML models to building custom AI agents, continuing discovery, detection and repair.
Cato Networks said that adding AIM security will enhance the capabilities of the SASE cloud platform, allowing organizations to address the unstructured nature of AI interactions and tackle threats across the evolving AI attack surface.
CATO customers with current AI security requirements can deploy AIM today, but in early 2026 it will be provided as part of the SASE platform, offering a “seamless migration path” to those who deployed standalone solutions.
Matan Getz, co-founder and CEO of AIM Security, said many organizations already benefit from the ability of solutions to ensure AI adoption, including one of the world's largest financial services companies.
“AIM dedicated its extensive AI security platform based on cutting-edge research and patented technology designed to seamlessly integrate into complex enterprise environments,” he explained. “AIM solutions allow businesses to safely enjoy the benefits of their AI investments.”
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