Lakera

Type: company (LLM safety/guardrails vendor; now a Check Point unit) Sector: GenAI/LLM security — prompt-injection defence, guardrails, red-teaming (Gandalf) First seen: 2026-07 (watchlist mentions in scan notes) Last updated: 2026-08-13

Created 2026-08-13 from S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived (daily AI-governance vendor-intelligence scan; search-snippet capture of the GitHub archive banner plus secondary commentary ⚠️). Lakera had appeared repeatedly in prior scan notes only as the out-of-window “Lakera/Check Point (2025)” acquisition; the 6 Aug 2026 archival is its first in-window dated event.

Snapshot

Lakera is (was) a Zurich-founded LLM-safety vendor on Paul’s GenAI guardrails/red-teaming watchlist, acquired by Check Point (announced September 2025, completed October 2025) and being integrated into Check Point’s AI security offering [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived]. It matters to this wiki chiefly as a consolidation case study: on 6 August 2026 its GitHub organisation was archived (“no longer maintained”), making it the vault’s first concrete instance of an acquired guardrail vendor’s open-source assets going unmaintained — a live third-party-dependency question for any regulated firm that embedded Lakera open-source components in its GenAI control stack [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived].

Positions / Claims they advance

• None newly ingested — no primary Lakera/Check Point statement about the archival has been located; the link between archival and integration is secondary commentary, not a company claim [speculative — S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived].

Relationships

• part-of → Check Point — acquired 2025 (announced Sep, completed Oct); Check Point has no vault page yet [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived].
• relates-to → AI Governance Platforms — supplies the open-source-dependency consolidation signal tracked there [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived].

Tracked changes

• 2025-09 / 2025-10 — Check Point acquisition announced / completed (per Check Point releases as relayed; predates this page) [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived].
• 2026-08-06 — GitHub organisation archived by an administrator; repositories read-only, “no longer maintained”; no company announcement located [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived].

Open Questions

• Which Lakera open-source components are embedded in regulated firms’ GenAI stacks, and what is the patching/continuity path now they are unmaintained? [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived]
• Does Check Point provide closed-source continuity or migration for open-source users? — unstated [S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived].
• Whether this pattern (acquire → archive open assets) generalises across the consolidating LLM-safety segment (CalypsoAI/F5, Protect AI/Palo Alto, Robust Intelligence/Cisco) — watch item, no evidence yet [inference].

Sources

• S-2026-08-06-lakera-github-archived — GitHub archive banner + secondary commentary, search-snippet capture (medium authority on the platform fact, low on causal reading).