Building an open ecosystem for AI governance with Unity AI Gateway

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Summary

• Secure AI interactions with an open ecosystem: Integrate Alice, CrowdStrike, Cyera, HiddenLayer, Netskope, Noma Security, Obsidian Security, Openlayer, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler to protect prompts, model responses, agent actions, and MCP tool calls.

• Extend enterprise identity governance to AI agents: Govern agent identities and access using integrations with Okta, Ping Identity, and Saviynt.

• Gain centralized visibility and control across AI systems: Monitor AI activity, enforce governance policies, and manage risk consistently across models, agents, MCP services, and tools through Unity AI Gateway.

As organizations move AI from experimentation to production, governance requirements are expanding beyond models alone. Enterprises need visibility into how AI is used, controls over what agents can access, protection against emerging AI threats, and identity systems that can govern both human and non-human actors. At Data + AI Summit 2026, we're announcing the Unity AI Gateway partner ecosystem , with new integrations across AI security, identity governance, agent discovery, data protection, and threat detection. Unity AI Gateway is Databricks' governance solution for enterprise AI. Built on the foundation of  Unity Catalog , it extends governance beyond data and AI assets to the runtime interactions between models, agents, MCP servers, skills, and AI tools. Organizations can use Unity AI Gateway to apply policies, monitor activity, manage spend, and govern AI consistently across providers and frameworks. Just as enterprises rely on a rich ecosystem of security, identity, and governance tools for traditional applications, they need those same capabilities for AI. Through our open partner ecosystem, customers can integrate the solutions they already trust into governed AI workflows. Together, these integrations help organizations address three key areas of AI governance: Runtime AI security, observability and guardrails Agent identity and access governance AI observability and risk monitoring

Runtime AI security, observability and guardrails As AI agents gain access to enterprise systems and data, organizations need protections that can evaluate prompts, responses, tool calls, and agent actions in real time. Unity AI Gateway enables customers to integrate leading AI security, observability and guardrail providers directly into governed AI workflows. Alice Alice applies real-time AI guardrails for enterprise applications and agents, detecting and blocking harmful, non-compliant, or off-policy prompts and responses with policy-specific protections, live observability, and multimodal and multilingual coverage. "Alice is thrilled to help organizations building on Databricks govern AI workflows with personalized runtime guardrails. Integrating Alice's WonderFence with Unity AI Gateway delivers consistent policy enforcement across Databricks workspaces, so our shared customers can advance unafraid as they deploy AI at scale." — Avi Golan, Chief Product & Engineering Officer, Alice CrowdStrike Falcon® AI Detection and Response (AIDR) By integrating  Falcon® AIDR with Databricks Unity AI Gateway, organizations can extend AI security across models, agents, and tools with unified visibility, threat detection, and policy enforcement across AI interactions. Together, CrowdStrike and Databricks help customers monitor AI activity, identify risks such as prompt injection, data exposure, malicious entities, unsafe content, and MCP tool poisoning, and take action through reporting, transforming, or blocking requests and responses. "As enterprises move AI into production, they need a consistent way to govern and secure AI interactions across models, agents, and tools. By integrating Falcon AI Detection and Response with Databricks Unity AI Gateway, CrowdStrike makes the Falcon platform the security layer for AI, delivering the visibility, detection, and protection organizations need to scale AI across the enterprise." —Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer, CrowdStrike Cyera Cyera is integrating with Unity AI Gateway to bring precise data classification and enterprise-grade security into the AI runtime, automatically identifying and preventing the exposure of sensitive data, excessive agency, and dangerous tool invocation across every prompt, response, and agent action. "As AI agents gain access to enterprise systems, organizations need protections that work in real time, evaluating what agents can reach before risk spreads. Our integration with Databricks brings Cyera's data and AI security directly into the runtime layer, so companies determine what their AI can see and do in real time. That's the infrastructure the agentic era requires, and it's what makes AI transformation something enterprises can actually trust." — Tamar Bar-Ilan, CTO and co-founder, Cyera HiddenLayer HiddenLayer protects agents at runtime from prompt attacks, jailbreaks, unsafe outputs, and malicious tool use, and helps organizations detect and block data leakage, inference attacks, model tampering, and model extraction attempts in real time across production AI systems. As enterprises scale agentic AI, they need governance and security controls that work seamlessly across their existing technology ecosystem. We're excited to be part of Databricks' Unity AI Gateway ecosystem to help organizations extend AI security into the runtime enforcement layer, bringing trusted security controls into agent, model, and tool interactions. Together, we're helping customers accelerate AI adoption while maintaining the visibility, governance, and protection required to innovate confidently." — Chris Sestito, CEO and Co-founder, HiddenLayer Netskope One AI Guardrails Netskope provides runtime threat defense, content moderation, DLP, and advanced threat protection for prompts, responses, and agentic workflows. "Enterprises need AI guardrails that work with the way their teams actually build: across models, apps, and agents. Together, Netskope and Databricks help mutual customers protect AI usage from data leakage, prompt injection, and unsafe content." — Andy Horwitz, Senior Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystems, Netskope Noma Security Noma Security monitors prompts, responses, tool calls, MCP interactions, and agent behavior to detect, mask, or block threats in...