Thales helps organizations rethink how they secure AI and LLM-powered applications by focusing on AI runtime security and data protection across the full lifecycle.

Key elements include:

• AI runtime security to monitor and protect agentic AI and LLM applications while they are running, helping detect misuse, abnormal behavior, and policy violations in real time.
• Data-centric protection so that sensitive data used to train or feed AI models is encrypted, access-controlled, and monitored wherever it is created, shared, or stored.
• Insights from the 2026 Thales Data Threat Report, which provides guidance on emerging tech risks, including AI-driven threats, and offers actionable recommendations to strengthen enterprise-wide defenses.
• API security informed by the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: API Security Management, which highlights runtime protection, API discovery, and trends like AI-driven attacks and zero-trust models.

Together, these capabilities help organizations reshape their AI security posture, reduce the risk of data exposure or model abuse, and align AI initiatives with broader enterprise security and compliance strategies.

Thales research points to several persistent data security gaps that many organizations are still working to close.

Unstructured data is a major blind spot:

• While 75% of organizations feel confident in their data security, 68% admit that much of their unstructured data remains unprotected.
• This gap reveals that files, documents, emails, and other unstructured data types often fall outside existing protection and investment priorities.

Key themes from Thales reports and resources include:

• 2026 Thales Data Threat Report: A guide to global data security trends, emerging technology risks, and practical steps to strengthen defenses and drive strategic collaboration across the business.
• 2025 Thales Data Threat Report – Financial Services Edition: Focuses on the specific challenges of protecting data in complex financial environments, where regulatory pressure and attack surfaces are both high.
• Gartner 2025 Market Guide for Data Security Platforms: Highlights how combining multiple data security controls with fine-grained authorization can make protection more efficient and consistent.

Thales supports organizations in addressing these gaps by securing data across cloud and on-premises environments, helping meet diverse compliance mandates, and mitigating the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.

Thales works with organizations to reimagine long-term security strategy, from cryptography readiness to regulatory compliance and partner enablement.

Post-quantum readiness:

• Although post-quantum threats are projected to be a few years away, Thales emphasizes that enterprises need to start planning now.
• A free post-quantum risk assessment helps organizations understand whether they are at risk of a future post-quantum breach and what steps to take to prepare.
• Integrated Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are part of broader information risk management strategies that reduce cryptographic risk and can create competitive advantage.

Global and industry-specific compliance:

• Thales provides guidance and solutions aligned with regulations such as:
• New York State Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies
• Hong Kong Cloud Computing Security Practice Guide, Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) Guideline, and Virtual Asset Trading Platforms Operators Guideline
• India’s Framework for Adoption of Cloud Services by SEBI
• Korea’s Personal Information and Information Security Management System (ISMS-P)
• Thales also helps organizations navigate data breach notification requirements, leveraging “safe harbor” clauses where strong encryption and access controls are in place.

Partner and software ecosystem support:

• The Thales Accelerate Partner Network and broader partner ecosystem provide skills, expertise, and programs that help partners differentiate, add value, and grow revenue with Thales technologies.
• Resources like the Software Licensing Entitlement Management Buyer’s Guide and “How to Get Software Licensing Right the First Time” help software vendors license, deliver, and protect their software effectively, considering people, processes, and technology.

By combining these elements—post-quantum planning, compliance alignment, data security platforms, and partner enablement—Thales helps organizations build a security strategy that can adapt to changing threats and regulatory expectations.