AI security industry in China has grown to the level of USA and Israel, writes Habr

China's AI Security industry has grown to the level of the USA and Israel, writes Habr

The market for AI Security in China is opaque to outside observers — half of the products don't even have English landing pages — but over the past few years, an industry has grown there that has matured to a level comparable to American and Israeli information security players. This is what RAFT writes about in its blog on Habr.

What tasks Chinese AI Security solves

The task of protecting AI in China is exactly the same as everywhere else in the world: you need guardrails that check the input and output of the model, you need monitoring systems, and separate protection for AI agents that no longer just respond with text, but walk through tools, files, and corporate APIs. This means that the growth of the Chinese AI Security market happened not because of some fundamentally different problem statement, but because of the same demand for agent security as in the West.

• Half of the products in the Chinese AI Security market don't even have English landing pages
• Over the past few years, a full-fledged industry has grown there, comparable in maturity to the markets of the USA and Israel
• Protection is now needed not only for models, but also for agents that work with tools, files, and corporate APIs

What threats are being fought in China

The threat model in China is familiar to any AI Security specialist: prompt injections, data and secret leaks, misuse of tools, and poisoned agent skills.

«Externally, the

Chinese AI Security market is not transparent, half of the products don't even have English landing pages, but internally over the past couple of years a full-fledged industry has grown that is comparable in maturity to American and Israeli infosec players», — according to the blog of RAFT on Habr.

What's the difference with the Western market

With a similar problem, the difference between the Chinese and Western AI Security markets lies in the context: a sovereign stack of hardware and operating systems, party-determined understanding of secure AI, and an entire ecosystem of products that almost no one outside China has heard of.

This means that even a specialist well-versed in the American and Israeli AI Security markets, when first encountering the Chinese sector, will have to deal with unfamiliar product names and solutions tailored to a different hardware and OS stack — while the basic security tasks remain the same.

What it means

The AI protection industry is developing in parallel in different technological blocs — in China it has grown to a level comparable to the USA and Israel, simply remaining invisible from the outside due to language and infrastructure barriers.

Frequently asked questions

What threats are relevant for AI agents in

China and around the world?

The same ones everywhere: prompt injections, data and secret leaks, misuse of tools, and poisoned agent skills — this is how the threat model is described in the RAFT blog on Habr.

How does the

Chinese AI Security market differ from the American and Israeli markets?

The problem is the same, but the context is different: a sovereign hardware and OS stack, party-determined understanding of secure AI, and an ecosystem of products unfamiliar outside the country.

Why is the

Chinese AI Security market invisible from the outside?

Because half of the products don't even have English landing pages — RAFT notes that the market is opaque to outside observers, though internally in the country the industry is already mature.