Kong Joins ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance to Enforce Rules on Enterprise AI

What the alliance is

According to Kong, the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance is a new ecosystem of leading companies in AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement and token metering. Its members will work with ServiceNow to help customers adopt trusted enterprise AI safely at scale.

The alliance is built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower, described as a centralized control plane to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure enterprise AI. Kong, which calls itself the AI Connectivity Company, announced on Oct. 28, 2026 that it is among the founding members.

As part of the effort, Kong will work with ServiceNow and the other founding members to bring security and governance to the models, tools, and agents that AI applications depend on.

Three ways Kong and ServiceNow plan to work together

Kong outlined three areas of cooperation:

• Build together: Kong and ServiceNow will collaborate on solutions that run on the Super Intelligence Control Tower and are easy for customers to deploy. This brings Kong's AI traffic governance to enterprises inside the platform they already use to govern AI.
• Deliver with governance: Kong's solutions will go through ServiceNow's qualification and certification process, which is meant to ensure alignment with shared standards for AI governance.
• Sell and lead together: The two companies will create joint solution offerings that are deeply integrated, offering additional value to customers and partners.

Kong's enforcement layer

Kong says it provides a universal enforcement layer for enterprise AI through Kong Konnect, which it calls the AI Connectivity Platform. According to the company, this gives enterprises consistent enforcement of security and access policies across the APIs, models, and tools their agents use. Customers keep the freedom to change models, providers, and environments without rebuilding governance.

Within the alliance, Kong will apply this enforcement to LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic through Kong AI Gateway. The company describes this as translating enterprise AI governance into real-time control over how AI connects to the business.

Augusto Marietti, CEO and co-founder of Kong, framed the approach around enforcement. "AI governance depends on enforcing what agents can access and do," he said. "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."

What it means for enterprise customers

For companies already using ServiceNow to govern AI, the announcement points to a way to add Kong's traffic governance inside the same platform rather than through a separate system. The certification step is intended to give customers shared standards to rely on when they adopt such solutions.

The release does not give details on pricing, availability dates, or specific product launches under the alliance. Kong directs readers to further information on Kong AI Gateway and the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance through links in its announcement.