About ZeroTrusted.ai

We believe cybersecurity should be intelligent, adaptive, and proactive — not reactive. ZeroTrusted.ai is building the next generation of AI-native security tools that protect organizations before threats materialize.

Our story

Built where AI ambition meets operational responsibility.

Founded in 2022, ZeroTrusted.ai applies security, privacy, reliability, and governance to AI users, models, and agents. Our platform connects runtime protection, model assurance, and cyber operations so organizations can adopt AI while retaining control of their infrastructure and evidence.

Company announcements and recognition

2022
Zero trust for AI, from the start
Waylon Krush and Femi Fashakin founded ZeroTrusted.ai to bring Zero Trust principles to AI in defense missions and commercial environments with demanding security requirements.
2023
Continuous model assurance
Early AI HealthCheck development focused on evaluating models, retrieval workflows, and vector databases for privacy, reliability, and governance.
2024
Runtime protection and recognition
AI Firewall expanded runtime guardrails. ZeroTrusted.ai received Product Hunt recognition and was assessed Awardable in the CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.
2025
Governance across AI connections
The MCP Gateway and model-agnostic governance announcements extended the focus to connected AI systems. Expansion into Brazil and recognition by Enterprise Security Magazine broadened the company’s reach.
2026
Governed agent operations
AI SOAR brings together agent registration, deep testing, SWARM missions, Autonomous SOC, and GRC evidence. The Daiwabo distribution agreement expands delivery in Japan.

Founders & executive leadership

Experience that connects mission and engineering.

Co-Founder & CEO

Waylon Krush

Waylon Krush is a U.S. Army veteran and serial entrepreneur with more than 27 years of cybersecurity experience. He created, designed, and developed AI SOAR, bringing together hundreds of trained agents, hundreds of command-line tools, and AI management components to support mission execution using Zero Trust.

His work focuses on helping organizations build, manage, and secure their AI workforce. The entire ZeroTrusted.ai platform is multi-tenant, enabling teams to support and manage operations across their own company and their customers.

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Co-Founder & CTO

Femi Fashakin

Femi co-founded ZeroTrusted.ai and serves as Chief Technology Officer. His work focuses on the technology behind secure AI interactions, privacy protection, and integration of AI models into enterprise workflows.

As an early product maker, he explained the platform’s middleware architecture, prompt sanitization, and context-preserving data protection. At ZeroTrusted.ai, his technical leadership supports the shared goal of making AI useful while keeping users, models, and agents accountable.

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Your infrastructure

Deploy in your on-premises, private-cloud, or hybrid environment with control over data, identity, models, and tools.

Accountable operations

Connect agent identity, permissions, human approvals, tool results, and evidence throughout the mission lifecycle.

Continuous evolution

Agent and tool catalogs evolve by release and deployment. The installed inventory and successful readiness checks determine what is available to each customer.

Investors & strategic partners

Build the next chapter of secure AI.

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Investor information

Our Mission

To make enterprise-grade AI cybersecurity accessible to every organization. We combine zero trust architecture with artificial intelligence to deliver security that adapts faster than threats evolve — automating detection, response, and compliance at machine speed.

Our Approach

Traditional security tools react to known threats. We built ZeroTrusted.ai from the ground up with AI at the core — not as an add-on. Our platform continuously learns, adapts, and responds to protect your infrastructure, data, and reputation.

About AI SOAR

A security operating model for the AI era.

AI SOAR brings cyber operations, GRC, incident response, AI assurance, and agent management into one on-premises control plane. It connects the tools customers already own and adds governed AI agents that can test, investigate, explain, remediate, and retest with evidence.

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Zero trust for users, models, and agents

Identity, least privilege, model routing, tool authorization, and mission trace remain explicit across every tenant and boundary.

Built for real deployments

On-premises, Red Hat, AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid, private, and air-gapped patterns with local or approved external models.

Evidence at the center

Findings, controls, configurations, screenshots, hashes, approvals, reports, remediation, and retests stay connected.

A platform that keeps evolving

New tools and agents ship continuously. Versioning, preflight, certification, quarantine, and tenant inventory keep change visible.

Zero Trust First

Every request verified. Every identity authenticated. No implicit trust granted — ever.

AI-Native

Purpose-built with machine learning at every layer, not bolted on as an afterthought.

Enterprise Ready

SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and HIPAA compliance built in. Scale from startup to Fortune 500.