Symmetry Systems – The Data+AI Security Company
The Problem Agentic AI Created, We Started Solving in 2010.
A decade of DARPA-funded research on information flow control — before the industry knew it had this problem. Today that work protects data everywhere it lives, governing exactly which identities and AI can touch it, from fast-growing startups to the most security-conscious institutions on earth.
The Problem
The Problem No One Could See
For decades, security assumed a human was always on the other end. That human made choices on what it could do with the access it was granted and a lifetime of context. That assumption no longer holds.
OUR VISION
To build the control plane for the world's information flows
Security has always been about information flows — data moving between people, systems, and environments. But until now, no single layer existed to see and govern all of them. A control plane changes that: one place to map every data store, trace every flow, and enforce policy across every identity and access event. As agentic AI systems begin traversing cloud environments at machine speed — querying, copying, and acting on data autonomously — a control plane isn’t just how you secure information flows. It’s how you make AI possible to trust.
OUR MISSION
To Secure the World's Data in the age of AI by giving organizations complete visibility and control over who and what accesses their data, and for what purpose.
Our mission has always been grounded in practice. “Complete visibility and control” means knowing about every data store, every identity, every access event — mapping directly to what NIST demands: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond. With AI systems now accessing structured, unstructured, and shadow data simultaneously, that definition has never mattered more.
OUR STORY
From DARPA-Funded Research to Pioneers of Data+AI Security
Our co-founders, Casen Hunger and Dr. Mohit Tiwari, and numerous other members of the Symmetry team first met at the award-winning Spark Research Lab at UT Austin. Amongst other research, they were studying how to build a system stack where users control their data even when they use untrusted applications on untrusted data centers, thereby preserving privacy and the most valuable asset of all – data.
Casen Hunger and Dr. Mohit Tiwari incorporate Symmetry as an official UT Austin spinout. The founding thesis is the same question the Spark Lab had been answering for a decade — reframed as a commercial product. The research that proved the concept becomes the architecture of DataGua
ForgePoint Capital and Prefix Capital fund the launch of Symmetry DataGuard — the first product to give enterprises granular visibility and access control across all data stores simultaneously. Already piloted by major organizations at launch. A direct commercialization of the Spark Lab’s information flow architecture.
Prefix Capital and ForgePoint lead the Series A with Accenture Ventures joining as a strategic investor. DataGuard scales across hybrid cloud environments. Accenture’s participation opens enterprise distribution channels that would have taken years to build organically.
Symmetry is named in Gartner’s April 2022 Cool Vendors for Data Security report — the report that codified Data Security Posture Management as a formal category. We didn’t enter a category. The report named us and named the category in the same breath.
ForgePoint, Prefix, W11, and channel partner TSG fund the next phase of growth. As AI makes data the critical enterprise asset, investors double down. The platform expands across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises coverage — get-everywhere becoming the architectural commitment, not a roadmap item.
Joint research with UT Austin by Ayush RoyChowdhury, Mulong Luo, Prateek Sahu, Sarbartha Banerjee, and Dr. Mohit Tiwari surfaces a new class of attack on RAG-based AI systems. ConfusedPilot directly informs detection capabilities.
Named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for DSPM along with our fourth consecutive Hype Cycle year of recognition. Customers rate us 4.8/5 overall and 4.9/5 on Product Capabilities, tied for highest in the category. Scores from customers running Symmetry in production, not from an analyst briefing.
Named winner of the Datos Insights Cybersecurity Impact Award for Best AI-Powered Data Protection Solution. Datos Insights evaluates vendors across the financial services technology landscape — making this recognition particularly significant given Symmetry’s depth of deployment in financial institutions. A third-party validation that the platform built on 15 years of information flow research is now the benchmark for AI-native data protection.
Symmetry AIGuard launches as a standalone AI security and governance product — governing external LLMs, enterprise copilots, internal AI services, and autonomous agents. New connectors for IBM AS/400, DB2, and Nutanix make Symmetry the only Data+AI Security platform covering air-gapped and regulated environments at this breadth.
Symmetry’s Data+AI Security platform is trusted by Fortune 50 financial institutions, federal agencies, and organizations across every industry to protect their most sensitive data
OUR PRINCIPLES
How Symmetry Works
These aren’t features. They’re leadership principles that took years to build that guides everything we do from our architecture to our product roadmap.
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Do the right thing because it's the right thing
Even when it's hard. Even when no one's watching. This isn't a value we display on a wall. It's the standard every decision gets measured against.
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Unrelenting focus
Customer needs and our shared mission guide every decision — no matter how decentralized. When it's cold, when we're tired. All the time, everywhere.
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Respect, care, and deliberation
Your data is not a resource to be processed — it's something entrusted to us. We architect around that responsibility, not around convenience.
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Build with intent
Toward outcomes, not features. Every capability exists because a real problem demanded it — grounded in science, validated in adversarial research, not because a competitor had it or a slide deck needed it.
LEADERSHIP
Meet Our Leadership team
Symmetry’s leadership brings together three distinct backgrounds: academic security research rooted in DARPA-funded work at UT Austin, enterprise security practice from financial services and regulated industries, and deep technical specialization in platform engineering and AI security research. That combination produces a team that understands the problem at the level of the adversary, the CISO, the auditor, and the architect simultaneously.
BOARD
Meet Our Board
Behind every great security company is a board that understands the problem at both the technical level and the market opportunity. Our board brings decades of experience across identity, cybersecurity investing, and enterprise infrastructure, united by the belief that protecting data starts with understanding it.
INVESTORS
World Class Backing
Symmetry is backed by investors who specialize in cybersecurity and deep tech — firms and operators who’ve built and scaled the companies defining how enterprises protect their most critical assets.
CAREERS
Join Our Team
Symmetry was built by people who believe data security and privacy require intelligence — not just policies. Our team combines deep expertise in AI, machine learning, and security engineering with decades of experience protecting the world’s most sensitive data across industries like finance, healthcare, and government.
We’re growing across Engineering, AI, and Sales, and we’re looking for people who want to solve hard problems at the intersection of data security and artificial intelligence — at a company with real customers, real traction, and a category we helped create.
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