Kong Inc. joins ServiceNow's AI governance alliance

Kong Inc. has joined the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as a founding member. The alliance brings together companies working with ServiceNow to help enterprises adopt trusted AI safely at scale. Kong's involvement centers on security and governance for the components that AI agents depend on.

The alliance includes companies working in AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement, and token metering. Its members are working with ServiceNow on this shared objective. Kong's focus is on the models, tools, and agents that AI applications rely on.

The alliance is built around ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower, a centralized control plane for discovering, securing, governing, observing, and measuring enterprise AI. Kong brings Kong Konnect, the AI Connectivity Platform, which gives enterprises consistent enforcement of security and access policies across the APIs, models, and tools their agents use. Enterprises can change models, providers, and environments without rebuilding governance. Through Kong AI Gateway, that enforcement extends to LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic in real time.

Augusto Marietti, CEO and co-founder of Kong, said, “AI governance depends on enforcing what agents can access and do. Together, ServiceNow and Kong can turn enterprise AI policies into control points across APIs, models, and tools, helping customers put AI agents to work with confidence.”

Kong's role in the alliance includes three areas of work with ServiceNow. Kong and ServiceNow have planned solutions that run on the Super Intelligence Control Tower and are designed to be easy for customers to deploy. Kong's solutions are set to pass through ServiceNow's qualification and certification process, which aligns them with shared AI governance standards.

The companies described plans to create joint solution offerings that are deeply integrated and provide additional value to customers and partners.