AirGap Labs and Onnex Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver Secure AI for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

IRVINE, Calif. — June 2026 — AirGap Labs, a premier IT infrastructure engineering firm and Fortinet Engage Preferred Services Partner, today announced a strategic alliance with Onnex, developer of the AI-Sentinel inline security platform, to deliver a first-of-its-kind managed AI security package purpose-built for small and mid-sized businesses.

The alliance addresses a critical and widening gap in the market: while an estimated 43% of businesses now run AI in production, fewer than 5% have any security built specifically for it. Most organizations adopted AI tools before security frameworks existed for them — leaving customer data, internal records, and business systems exposed through the very tools employees use every day.

One Secure Stack, One Partner

The AirGap Labs × Onnex offering combines two complementary layers of protection into a single managed package. AirGap Labs contributes Fortinet-backed network and infrastructure security — including NextGen Firewall, endpoint protection, and an "office in a box" deployment model sized to headcount. Onnex contributes AI-Sentinel, an inline security sidecar that sits between business applications and any AI model, inspecting every request and response in real time before the model ever sees the payload.

Together the alliance covers the full threat surface — from the network perimeter to the AI prompt — managed as a single engagement with one point of contact.

"Small and mid-sized businesses are running AI, but almost none of them have secured it," said Guy Thier of AirGap Labs. "We already protect their infrastructure. Partnering with Onnex lets us extend that protection to the AI layer without requiring our clients to manage a second vendor relationship or build an internal security team."

What AI-Sentinel Brings to the Alliance

AI-Sentinel operates as an inline security layer across eight sequential inspection stages, blocking prompt injection and jailbreak attempts, preventing sensitive data and credentials from leaking out through AI queries, controlling what AI-connected tools are permitted to do, and maintaining a tamper-evident audit chain of every AI decision. In verification testing, AI-Sentinel blocked all 22 of 22 known AI attack patterns with an average inspection latency under 20 milliseconds.

The platform is model-agnostic — compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Mistral, and any custom LLM deployment — and deploys as a single binary or Docker sidecar with no changes required to existing applications or workflows. Typical deployment time is approximately one hour.

Packages Sized for Growing Businesses

The alliance has designed the offering as a tiered package scaled to organization size:

• Up to 50 users — core infrastructure plus AI-Sentinel, fully managed
• 50–150 users — multi-site ready with role-based AI controls and priority support
• 150+ users — full audit reporting, custom AI policies, and a dedicated contact

Every tier includes Fortinet-backed network and firewall security, endpoint and device protection, the AI-Sentinel inline security layer, data-leak prevention on AI traffic, AI usage policy and guardrails setup, a tamper-evident AI audit log, plain-English staff guidance on safe AI use, and ongoing monitoring, updates, and support.

A Free AI Security Assessment

To help businesses understand their current exposure, AirGap Labs and Onnex are offering a complimentary AI security assessment. The assessment maps where AI already touches a business and where it is exposed, with plain-English findings delivered within one business day.

Businesses can schedule an assessment or request a quote at airgaplabs.onnexglobal.com.

About AirGap Labs

AirGap Labs is a premier IT infrastructure engineering firm founded in 2013 and headquartered in Irvine, California. The company holds Fortinet's Engage Preferred Services Partner (EPSP) designation and delivers managed services, secure network architecture, zero-trust security, multi-cloud engineering across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP, end-to-end infrastructure, and AI enablement to clients across the United States and globally. Contact: 949-669-4711 | sales@airgaplabs.com | airgaplabs.com

About Onnex

Onnex is the developer of AI-Sentinel, an inline AI security platform that protects businesses from the full range of AI-specific threats including prompt injection, data exfiltration, jailbreaking, and unauthorized tool access. AI-Sentinel has achieved 100% coverage of known AI attack patterns in verification testing and is deployed in production environments across multiple industries. Contact: 310-383-3231 | info@onnexglobal.com | ai-sentinel.on-nex.us

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