Head-to-head · updated 13 September 2026
DataShield vs Securiti AI: your DSPM found the data, so who stops the agent?
Securiti AI, now part of Veeam, runs one of the best data security posture management platforms you can buy. They find sensitive data across your clouds, your SaaS apps and your on-prem shares, draw it into their DataAI Command Graph, and hang privacy workflow off the same map. GigaOm has named them a DSPM leader three years running. If you don't know where your data lives, buy the map.
We don't sell a map. DataShield is the enforcement point and the evidence layer for the data the map already found. Datasets are tokenized at ingest; agents query tokenized data over MCP; detokenization is a privileged, audited operation. Every governed tool call is checked against the agent's current authority, and every decision is sealed into a hash chain anyone can verify. Below is where the two of us actually differ, including 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 and have the very next tool call fail, not wait for a token to time out.
- You want the policy engine, the token vault and the evidence to sit on your own infrastructure, 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, and we are not a DSPM.
- Privacy operations are the budget line: DSAR handling, records of processing, consent, breach impact analysis, all wired to the same inventory.
- You want recovery. Agent Commander tracks agent reads, writes and deletes at file level and restores only the affected files, backed by Veeam's data plane. We don't do backup.
- Scale and analyst cover matter to your board. Veeam paid $1.725 billion for them, and 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, and 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 public site, press releases and Veeam's announcements say as of the date above. If we've mischaracterised something, email support@myorg.ai and we'll correct it, credited.
| What matters | DataShield | Securiti AI | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitive-data discovery | We scan, profile and classify a live PostgreSQL source in place, with no rows leaving it. Columns get labelled against 129 field classes covering PII, PHI, financial data and secrets, and the catalog carries a business glossary, typed lineage and stewardship queues. That is PostgreSQL today, not your whole estate: SaaS apps, cloud stores and endpoints are not ours, and the other database providers are declared but not built yet. | Deep DSPM across cloud, SaaS and on-prem, with 1000+ pre-built connectors and data lineage. GigaOm's top-scored vendor. | ◇ |
| Audit evidence | SHA-256 row chain with Ed25519-signed checkpoints that are themselves chained. Verification names the failure: tampering, insertion, deletion or truncation. Public verifier. | Activity tracking and incident reporting on the Command Graph. We found no published cryptographic tamper evidence. | ◆ |
| Agent authorization | Every governed tool call passes a scope ceiling, a declared authority tier and a revocation re-check before dispatch. Revocation lands mid-session. | Agent Commander promises detection, real-time controls and recovery. Public material doesn't describe agent authority tiers or mid-session revocation. | ◆ |
| Break-glass | Scoped, time-boxed emergency access for agents. It auto-revokes and it can't be quietly deleted from the log. | Not described in public material. | ◆ |
| GDPR erasure | Crypto-shred of per-subject key material plus ISO 27560 consent receipts. The audit chain still verifies after the subject is gone. | Full privacy automation: DSAR fulfilment, data mapping, consent, breach management, tied to the inventory. Effect of erasure on audit history isn't described. | ◇ |
| Tokenization | Deterministic, join-preserving, vault-reversible tokens applied at ingest, plus quasi-identifier generalization (dates to year, decade or age band; ZIPs to 3 or 4 digits; partial phones, SSNs and emails) with a measured cardinality-reduction score per column. Detokenization is a privileged, logged operation. | Masking and de-identification controls sit inside the platform. Their public vocabulary is graph and posture, not cryptographic token mechanics. | ◆ |
| MCP and agents | Native MCP endpoints on Auth, Ontology and Lighthouse. MCP tool tokens carry scope ceilings, and per-call metering is attributed to the agent. | Strong agent messaging: LLM firewalls, an Identity-Data Graph for non-human identities, 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, writes and deletes at file level and restores only affected files, on Veeam's backup plane. Nobody 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, which is 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 and listings on the AWS, Azure and GCP marketplaces. | ◈ |
| 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 with no dollar figures on it. | ◆ |
◆ DataShield leads◇ Securiti AI leads◈ comparable
Securiti claims are drawn from securiti.ai, Securiti's own press releases and Veeam's acquisition announcements, last checked 13 September 2026. We link them below rather than paraphrase 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. Ours is a hash chain with signed checkpoints, and the verifier tells you what broke, not just that something did. That's the property EU AI Act Article 12 and HIPAA §164.312(b) reviewers care about. 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 governed tool call is re-checked against current authority and 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: the subject's key material is destroyed, the data goes unreadable, and 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, sells to banks, hospitals and governments, and Veeam paid $1.725 billion for them in a deal that closed in December 2025. Their DataAI Command Graph is a real piece of engineering: it maps data, identities, models and agents in one place, and GigaOm's 2026 DSPM Radar gave them 4.8 out of 5 on key features against 25 vendors. The privacy side is deeper than ours and always will be, because they built it first. And Agent Commander's file-level undo, restoring only what an agent broke, is a good idea nobody else in this category can copy without a backup business behind them.
Here's the push-back. Recovery is what you do after the wrong thing happened. Gartner expects most unauthorized agent transactions through 2028 to be internal policy violations rather than attacks, which means the agent had credentials and used them in a way nobody sanctioned. An undo button helps you clean that up. It doesn't tell an examiner whether the call was allowed, and it doesn't stop the next one. Worth asking, too, which roadmap wins inside a company whose main business is backup: Agent Commander was announced in February 2026 as 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 sensitive data. If that's the problem, Securiti is better at it than we are and most DSPM vendors are better at it than we are. We govern the data once it's in a governed dataset: tokenized at ingest, queried by agents over MCP, detokenized only as a privileged and logged operation. People who search for a 'Securiti alternative' usually want one of two things, discovery or enforcement. We're the second one.
Can you cryptographically prove an audit log entry wasn't deleted?
DataShield: yes. Each record commits to the one before it, checkpoints are signed and chained, and verification tells deletion apart from truncation and from tampering. Run it against a sample chain at /verify. Securiti: their material describes activity tracking, incident response and breach analytics on the Command Graph. We found no published tamper-evidence mechanism. Ask them to show you one.
What happens to a revoked agent mid-session?
DataShield re-checks authority on every governed tool call, so revocation bites on the next call. Securiti's Agent Commander describes granular real-time controls but the public material doesn't say how a running agent's authority is withdrawn or how fast. Ask how long a compromised agent keeps working after you pull its access.
How does GDPR erasure interact with the audit trail?
DataShield crypto-shreds per-subject key material and issues an ISO 27560 consent receipt. Actor identities in the chain are HMAC-committed, so the evidence stays verifiable after erasure. Securiti automates the whole DSAR and deletion workflow across connected systems, which is more than we do, but we couldn't find a description of what erasure does to the audit history. 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, applies controls, and can restore files an agent changed, which is the recovery half. We sit at the decision: scope ceiling, authority tier, revocation re-check, then a sealed audit record, which is the permission half. Running both is reasonable. If you only fund one, ask yourself whether you'd rather undo the March incident or be able to show it was never allowed to happen.
Does DataShield have SOC 2?
Not yet, and we won't imply otherwise. Auth is live a public threat model and a verifier anyone can run. Guardian and Lighthouse have been in production since April 2026. Design-partner terms include source escrow, so a small vendor isn't a single point of failure. Details on the security page.
- Securiti's hero positioning: "Your DataAI Command Platform", built on the DataAI Command Graph. — securiti.ai, 13 Sep 2026
- Veeam completed its $1.725 billion acquisition 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, protects AI pipelines and 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 published pricing; a pricing page exists with no dollar figures on it. — securiti.ai/pricing, 13 Sep 2026
- At least 80% of unauthorized agent transactions through 2028 will be internal policy violations rather than attacks. — Gartner, 2026
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