Head-to-head · updated 13 September 2026
DataShield vs Securiti AI: your DSPM found the data, so who stops the agent?
Securiti AI is now part of Veeam. It runs one of the best DSPM platforms around. It finds private data across your clouds. Also your SaaS apps and your on-prem shares. It draws that data into one graph. It hangs privacy workflow off the same map. GigaOm has named it a DSPM leader. Three years running. Don't know where your data lives? Get the map.
We don't sell a map. DataShield is where the checks happen. It is also the proof layer. It covers the data the map already found. We tokenize datasets at ingest. Agents query tokenized data over MCP. Detokenization is a special, audited step. Each tool call gets checked. Against the agent's current rights. Each choice gets sealed into a hash chain. Anyone can verify it. Below is where we actually differ. That includes the rows Securiti wins.
The short version
Pick DataShield when
- An examiner, an auditor, or Article 12 of the EU AI Act will one day ask you to prove an agent's access log was never edited. Our chain answers with math. Not a policy PDF. Run the verifier.
- You need to pull an agent's authority mid-session. You want the very next tool call to fail. Not wait for a token to time out.
- You want the policy engine, the token vault, and the proof to sit on your own system. On keys you hold. How we deploy.
- You'd like a price before you book a call.
Pick Securiti AI when
- You still need the map. Discovery and classification across hybrid multicloud, SaaS, and on-prem is their home turf. We are not a DSPM.
- Privacy operations are the budget line. Think DSAR handling, records of processing, consent, and breach impact analysis. All wired to the same inventory.
- You want recovery. Agent Commander tracks agent reads. It tracks writes and deletes too, at file level. It restores only the affected files. Veeam's data plane backs it. We don't do backup.
- Scale and analyst cover matter to your board. Veeam paid $1.725 billion for them. GigaOm scored them 4.8 out of 5 on key features in the 2026 DSPM Radar.
Bottom line: Securiti tells you where the data is and who touched it. We decide whether this agent may touch it right now. We keep proof of the answer. Most teams who buy both keep them in that order.
Feature by feature: DSPM platform against per-call enforcement
Competitor cells describe what Securiti's site says. Also their press releases and Veeam's posts. This is current as of the date above. If we get something wrong, email support@myorg.ai. We'll fix it, and credit you.
| What matters | DataShield | Securiti AI | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitive-data discovery | We scan, profile, and classify a live PostgreSQL source. In place. No rows leave it. We label columns against 129 field classes. These cover PII, PHI, financial data, and secrets. The catalog carries a business glossary. Plus typed lineage and stewardship queues. That is PostgreSQL today, not your whole estate. SaaS apps, cloud stores, and endpoints are not ours. We've said other database providers are coming. We haven't built them yet. | Deep DSPM across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem. Plus 1000+ pre-built connectors and data lineage. GigaOm's top-scored vendor. | ◇ |
| Audit evidence | SHA-256 row chain with Ed25519-signed checkpoints. The checkpoints are themselves chained. This names the failure. Tampering, insertion, deletion, or truncation. Try the verifier. | Event tracking and issue reporting on the Command Graph. We found no public cryptographic tamper proof. | ◆ |
| Agent authorization | Each tool call passes three checks. A scope ceiling. A set authority tier. A revocation re-check. This happens before dispatch. Revocation lands mid-session. | Agent Commander promises detection, real-time controls, and fixes. Public info doesn't describe agent authority tiers. Or mid-session revocation. | ◆ |
| Break-glass | Scoped, time-boxed emergency access for agents. It auto-revokes. It can't be quietly deleted from the log. | Not described in public info. | ◆ |
| GDPR erasure | Crypto-shred of per-subject key material plus ISO 27560 consent receipts. The audit chain still verifies. Even after the subject is gone. | Full privacy automation. DSAR fulfilment, data mapping, consent, and breach management. All tied to the inventory. They don't describe what erasure does to audit history. | ◇ |
| Tokenization | We apply deterministic, join-preserving, vault-reversible tokens at ingest. We also generalize quasi-identifiers. Dates become year, decade, or age band. ZIPs become 3 or 4 digits. Phones, SSNs, and emails get partially masked. Each column gets a measured cardinality-reduction score. Detokenization is a special, logged step. | Masking and de-identification controls sit inside the platform. Their public words are graph and posture. Not cryptographic token mechanics. | ◆ |
| MCP and agents | Native MCP endpoints on Auth, Ontology, and Lighthouse. MCP tool tokens carry scope ceilings. Per-call metering is attributed to the agent. | Strong agent messaging. LLM firewalls, an Identity-Data Graph for non-human IDs. Also Agent Commander. We found no MCP-specific tool-token story. | ◆ |
| Recovery after a bad agent action | We stop the call or record it. We don't restore files. | Agent Commander tracks agent reads. It tracks writes and deletes too, at file level. It restores only affected files. On Veeam's backup plane. No one else in this market has that. | ◇ |
| Privacy workflow | Consent receipts and erasure mechanics only. No DSAR queue, no RoPA, no assessments. | A full PrivacyOps suite. That's where the company started, in 2019. | ◇ |
| Deployment | Self-hosted in your own cloud or data center. Or on a dedicated single-tenant server we operate. Your keys. | SaaS control plane with connectors. Plus self-hosted and VPC options. Plus listings on AWS, Azure, and GCP. | ◈ |
| Maturity signals | Auth, Guardian, and Lighthouse are live in production. Guardian and Lighthouse since April 2026. SOC 2 not yet certified, and we say so. | Founded 2019. Acquired by Veeam for $1.725 billion. GigaOm DSPM leader three years running. Gartner AI TRiSM representative vendor. IDC MarketScape leader. | ◇ |
| Pricing | Published model, scoped instant quote, no sales wall. | Quote-only. A pricing page exists. No dollar figures on it. | ◆ |
◆ DataShield leads◇ Securiti AI leads◈ comparable
Securiti claims come from securiti.ai. Also from Securiti's own press releases. And Veeam's acquisition posts. Last checked 13 September 2026. We link them below. Not from memory.
Three things you get here that you won't get from a data posture platform
Proof that survives an audit
A log that can be silently edited proves nothing at all. Ours is a hash chain with signed checkpoints. The verifier tells you what broke. Not just that something did. That's what EU AI Act Article 12 reviewers want. HIPAA §164.312(b) too. Try it in your browser. No signup.
Authority that can change mid-flight
An analyst hands in their badge at 4pm. Their agent is 20 minutes into a 40-minute job. With DataShield, the next tool call gets re-checked. Against current rights. It fails closed. A posture platform will show you the access later. On a lovely graph. How Auth does it.
An erasure you can defend
GDPR says delete. Your auditor says keep the log. Crypto-shred settles it. We destroy the subject's key material. The data goes unreadable. The chain still verifies. See the diagram.
Where Securiti AI is genuinely stronger
Let's be blunt about the size difference. Securiti has been at this since 2019. It sells to banks, hospitals, and governments. Veeam paid $1.725 billion for them. The deal closed in December 2025. Their DataAI Command Graph is real engineering. It maps data, identities, models, and agents. All in one place. GigaOm's 2026 DSPM Radar gave them 4.8 out of 5. On key features. That's against 25 vendors. The privacy side is deeper than ours. It always will be. They built it first. And Agent Commander's file-level undo is a good idea. It restores only what an agent broke. No one else in this category can copy that. Not without a backup firm behind them.
Here's the push-back. A fix is what you do. After the wrong thing happened. Gartner expects most bad agent calls to be internal. Through 2028. Policy violations, not attacks. That means the agent had credentials. It just used them in a way nobody sanctioned. An undo button helps you clean that up. It won't tell an examiner if the call was allowed. It doesn't stop the next one either. Worth asking, too: which roadmap wins inside a firm? Its main job is backup. Agent Commander was announced in February 2026. It's shipping in a future release.
Questions worth asking both of us
These are the questions we'd want answered. If we were buying. Ask them on every vendor call, ours included.
Is DataShield a DSPM? Or a Securiti alternative for data discovery?
No, and we'd rather not waste your time. We don't crawl your estate hunting for private data. If that's the problem, Securiti beats us at it. So are most DSPM vendors. We govern the data. Once it sits in our dataset. We tokenize it at ingest. Agents query it over MCP. Detokenization happens only as a special, logged step. People searching for a 'Securiti alternative' want one thing. Or the other. Discovery or enforcement. We're the second one.
Can you prove an audit log entry wasn't deleted?
DataShield: yes. Each record commits to the one before it. Checkpoints are signed and chained. This tells apart deletion, truncation, and tampering. Run it against a sample chain at /verify. Securiti: their info describes event tracking. Plus issue response and breach analytics. All on the Command Graph. We found no public tamper-evidence mechanism. Ask them to show you one.
What happens to a revoked agent mid-session?
DataShield re-checks rights on each tool call. That bites on the next call. Securiti's Agent Commander describes granular real-time controls. But their public info doesn't say how fast. Or how it withdraws a running agent's rights. Or how fast. Ask how long a hacked agent keeps working. Time it from the moment you pull its access.
How does GDPR erasure interact with the audit trail?
DataShield crypto-shreds per-subject key material. It issues an ISO 27560 consent receipt. Actor IDs in the chain are HMAC-committed. So the proof stays valid after erasure. Securiti automates the whole DSAR and delete workflow. Across connected systems. That's more than we do. But we couldn't find one. What does erasure do to the log? Ask whether erasing a subject breaks the log.
How does this compare to Agent Commander?
Different moments in the same story. Agent Commander detects agent risk and applies controls. It can restore files an agent changed. That's the fix half. We sit at the choice point. Scope ceiling, authority tier, revocation re-check. Then a sealed audit record. That's the permission half. Running both is reasonable. If you only fund one, ask yourself this. Would you rather undo the March event? Or show it was never allowed to happen?
Does DataShield have SOC 2?
Not yet, and we won't imply otherwise. Auth is live. We publish a public threat model. Anyone can run our verifier. Guardian and Lighthouse have been in production since April 2026. Design-partner terms include source escrow. So a small vendor isn't one point of failure. Details on the security page.
- Securiti's hero positioning: "Your DataAI Command Platform." On their DataAI Command Graph. - securiti.ai, 13 Sep 2026
- Veeam completed its $1.725 billion buy of Securiti AI. On 11 December 2025. Founder Rehan Jalil became Veeam President. Of Security and AI. - Veeam press release, 11 Dec 2025
- Agent Commander detects AI risk and protects AI pipelines. It undoes AI mistakes with file-level recovery. Announced for a future release with early access. - Securiti press release, 24 Feb 2026
- GigaOm 2026 DSPM Radar: Leader and Fast Mover. Scoring 4.8/5 on key features across a field of 25 vendors. - Securiti press release, 27 May 2026
- No public pricing. A pricing page exists. No dollar figures on it. - securiti.ai/pricing, 13 Sep 2026
- At least 80% of bad agent calls through 2028 are internal. Policy violations, not attacks. - Gartner, 2026
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