Prompt Security goes wider.
Aona goes deep on employee governance.
Prompt Security covers many AI security surfaces: LLM firewalls, agent runtime, application-side guardrails, plus employee usage controls. Aona is narrower on purpose: Workforce AI Security with hard-block DLP, file redaction, and a self-serve trial. The right pick depends on which surfaces matter to you.
Broad AI security platform covering LLM firewalls, agent runtime guardrails, employee usage controls, and developer-side AI hardening.
Workforce AI Security platform purpose-built for the regulated mid-market, focused on employee AI usage with hard-block DLP, file redaction, and a 90-day self-serve trial.
Pick Prompt Security if you need broad AI security that includes LLM firewalls, agent runtime guardrails, and developer-side controls in one platform. Pick Aona if your problem is Workforce AI Security specifically and you want a faster, simpler, mid-market-focused tool with a self-serve trial. Run both if you have the budget and need wide AI security plus deep employee governance.
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When to pick which
Five scenarios. The honest answer for each one.
You need LLM firewalls and agent runtime guardrails for AI features in your own product.
Prompt Security ships an application-side LLM firewall and agent runtime controls. Aona does not cover the AI-in-your-product surface today.
You want one platform that covers AppSec / dev-side AI plus employee AI usage in a single contract.
Prompt Security's breadth means one vendor across both surfaces. Aona is workforce-only by design; pairing it with a separate AppSec AI tool is a two-vendor stack.
Your problem is workforce AI usage (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot) and you want a focused tool, not a broad platform.
Aona is purpose-built for Workforce AI Security. The roadmap, the trial, the policy templates, and the file redaction engine are all aimed at that use case.
You want to evaluate without a paid POC or multi-week sales-led setup.
Aona offers a 90-day self-serve free trial. Prompt Security typically runs a sales-led evaluation across multiple surfaces, which lengthens the cycle.
You have AppSec exposure on AI features in your product AND a Shadow AI workforce problem.
These are different surfaces. Prompt Security covers the application side; Aona covers the workforce side. Most regulated organisations need both kinds of controls.
What each tool actually does
Three columns on the Aona side because the browser plugin and the native endpoint app cover different surfaces. Browser-only customers will see fewer green checks than customers with both.
| Capability | Aona browser plugin | Aona native app | Prompt Security |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discover | |||
| Workforce shadow AI tool discovery (managed devices) | Browser surface | Browser plus native AI apps | |
| Native desktop AI app interception (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude desktop) | |||
| Application-side LLM traffic visibility | LLM firewall, core capability | ||
| Agent runtime visibility (in your own product) | Out of scope | ||
| Govern | |||
| Hard-block DLP on AI prompts (workforce side) | Modal pauses, no override | ||
| Application-side LLM firewall | Core capability | ||
| Real-time employee coaching | |||
| Out-of-the-box framework templates (EU AI Act, ISO 42001, sector) | |||
| Protect | |||
| File redaction with layout preservation (DOCX / Excel) | Length-matched replacement | Length-matched replacement | Detection-oriented |
| Inline prompt redaction before send | |||
| Operations | |||
| Time to first signal | Hours | Hours | Days to weeks |
| Trial motion | 90-day self-serve | 90-day self-serve | Sales-led |
Based on vendor documentation as of April 2026. Email trust@aona.ai if you find a factual error.
What it takes to ship each one
- Microsoft Intune (Windows MDM, only path shipped)
- Microsoft Entra (admin SSO + user/group sync)
- Identity provider for SSO
- Engineering capacity to wire the LLM firewall into your application stack
Where each one falls short
From public docs and customer interviews. If you find a factual error, email trust@aona.ai.
- Narrower scope than Prompt Security: no LLM firewall, no agent runtime controls, no AppSec AI hardening today.
- If you need a single-vendor platform across workforce AND application AI security, Aona is half the answer.
- Workforce-side AI agent inspection on the endpoint is newer than Prompt Security's runtime agent controls. Prompt Security's agent runtime has more time in market.
- Breadth comes with complexity: longer sales cycle, no self-serve trial, more surfaces to configure.
- Workforce-side employee coaching is part of a broader product, not the focus. Depth on file redaction and behaviour-change reporting is not on par with a workforce-specialist tool.
- Pricing is typically anchored at the enterprise tier, which can over-spec mid-market organisations whose problem is workforce AI only.
Migrating from Prompt Security
If your only problem is workforce AI usage, switching from Prompt Security to Aona simplifies the stack and the spend. If you have AppSec AI exposure too, the right move is to keep Prompt Security for the LLM firewall and agent runtime, and either run Aona alongside it for workforce or stay on Prompt Security's workforce module if breadth is the priority.
- Existing identity provider (Entra / Okta / Google Workspace)
- Existing MDM (Intune)
- Prompt Security's LLM firewall and agent runtime, if those surfaces matter to you
- Prompt Security's workforce / employee usage module (for orgs that only need workforce coverage)
- Sales-led evaluation cycle for the workforce surface
- Block-and-label-only file handling
- Duplicate browser-DLP extensions on the same browser
- Workforce-only contracts that bundle AppSec features you do not use
Try Aona — the Workforce AI Security platform
90-day self-serve free trial. Focused on workforce AI usage, not the broad platform path. Deploys via Intune and Entra in under an hour.