Lasso
Founded 2023 · 66 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
Lasso Security offers an AI security platform that discovers, assesses, and protects AI agents and applications across their lifecycle, addressing risks like Shadow AI, prompt manipulation, and guardrail bypasses. It is aimed at enterprises seeking visibility and governance over the AI tools and agents their employees build and deploy.
Also known as Lasso Security · Lasso Security Ltd.
Investors · 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Lasso (Lasso Security) provides an AI security platform for enterprises deploying generative AI and agentic systems. The platform is organized around discovery, assessment and protection across the AI lifecycle: a discovery and AI-BOM capability that inventories AI agents and homegrown applications via platform integrations and CI connections and maps their models, system prompts, tools and guardrails; AI security posture management covering misconfiguration and policy-gap analysis, supply chain risk assessment, exposure assessment and alignment with NIST and OWASP frameworks; automated AI red teaming using an attack library of more than 3,000 attack types including multi-turn agentic attacks, context poisoning and tool-chain manipulation, with purple-teaming policy updates; runtime enforcement applied inline at the proxy, API or AI gateway layer; and AI detection and response mapped to MITRE and OWASP with intent analysis for behavioral anomaly detection.
The company frames the problems it addresses as decentralized agent building and resulting Shadow AI, the non-deterministic behavior of AI systems, supply chain risk from foundational models and frequent provider updates, and adversarial manipulation of model behavior and agent guardrails. Lasso also publishes open-source and integration components, including an MCP gateway that orchestrates other MCP servers, security hooks for Claude Code with prompt-injection defenses, a Kong Gateway plugin that classifies AI chat traffic inline, and forks of the LiteLLM and Portkey AI gateways.
Founding story
Lasso was founded in 2023 by four co-founders described as entrepreneurs, cyber leaders and LLM/AI pioneers, who concluded when generative AI and LLMs became publicly available that security would be the main obstacle to LLM adoption. The founding team is Elad Schulman (CEO), Ophir Dror (CPO), Lior Ziv (CTO) and Yuval Abadi (COO).
Business model
Lasso sells an enterprise AI security platform, engaged through demo requests and available via cloud marketplaces including AWS Marketplace and Microsoft Azure Marketplace, alongside partner and channel relationships. A dedicated entity, Lasso Federal LLC, addresses public sector customers.
Traction
The company reports more than one million AI/LLM security threats mitigated within 1.5 years and about 20 global strategic partners. Named customers and references include Telit Cinterion and a US federal agency case study. Its open-source repositories show community traction, with 385 stars on the MCP gateway and 264 on the Claude Code hooks project.
Latest developments
Recent activity includes the introduction of Intent Security (February 2026), Axonius co-founder Dean Sysman joining the board of directors (February 2026), expanded automated AI red teaming (May 2026), published work on securing AI gateway traffic across Kong, Portkey, LiteLLM and Envoy and on Claude Code security (June 2026), the Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Award for Agentic AI Security (August 2026) and selection to the inaugural Allied Defense 100 (August 2026).
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Market position
Lasso operates in the emerging AI/LLM security segment and has been recognized by industry programs, including as a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor for AI Security, a Global InfoSec Awards winner at RSAC in 2025 and 2026, a 2026 Globee Award for Cybersecurity winner, a 2026 Pinnacle Award, The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Award for Agentic AI Security, and inclusion in the inaugural Allied Defense 100. It contributes to community efforts such as the OASIS Coalition for Secure AI and the OWASP GenAI Security Project's Top 10 for Agentic Applications.
Lasso positions itself as an LLM- and agent-first, end-to-end platform spanning discovery, posture management, red teaming, runtime enforcement and detection and response, with intent-based analysis rather than fixed rule patterns, claimed sub-50ms classification latency and stated cost efficiency versus cloud-native guardrails.
Technology
The platform combines automated discovery of agents and applications with AI-BOM inventory, posture analysis, offensive AI agents for adversarial testing across a library of over 3,000 attack types and techniques, inline runtime enforcement at proxy/API/AI gateway layers, and detection and response driven by intent analysis for behavioral anomaly detection. The company cites a stated 98.6% accuracy rate across content, context and intent detections, sub-50ms per classification using an LLM-as-a-judge approach, three patents pending, and integrations with AI gateways including Kong, Portkey, LiteLLM and Envoy.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demos, webinars, research publications, white papers and case studies; cloud marketplace listings (AWS, Azure); around 20 global strategic partners, including partnerships with Swish Data for the public sector and Scytale for AI compliance and governance; and open-source distributions (MCP gateway, Claude Code hooks, Kong plugin) that seed developer adoption.
Enterprises and public sector organizations adopting generative AI and AI agents, with buyers in security and IT leadership roles such as CISOs, CIOs and heads of data security; referenced verticals include financial services, healthcare and US federal agencies.
Geography
Lasso's board includes Israel-based figures and its advisors are drawn from Israeli technology companies; it serves US public sector customers through Lasso Federal LLC and works with partners globally.
History
Since its 2023 founding the company has expanded from LLM/GenAI monitoring and data protection toward agentic AI security. Publicly dated milestones include a contextual data protection tool for GenAI applications (May 2024), a full security suite on AWS Marketplace (July 2024), context-based access control for RAG security (August 2024), joining the OASIS Coalition for Secure AI (September 2024), recognition as a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor for AI Security (November 2024), availability in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace (June 2025), automated red teaming for generative AI (March 2025), the first open-source security gateway for MCP (April 2025), a Cloudflare integration (July 2025), formation of Lasso Federal LLC for the public sector (July 2025), an agentic purple teaming platform (September 2025), the introduction of Intent Security (February 2026) and expanded automated AI red teaming (May 2026).
Risks & controversies
Lasso's own research has publicized third-party exposures, including a finding that private GitHub repositories of Fortune 500 companies were accessible via Microsoft Copilot and Bing cache, and research showing 13% of generative AI prompts contained organizations' sensitive information.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 24
launches, deals, and filingsDescribed by the company as the first context-based access control for enhanced RAG security.
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In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Lasso do?
- Lasso is an enterprise AI security platform that discovers, assesses and protects AI agents and LLM applications.
- Who are Lasso's investors?
- Lasso's investors include ClearSky, Entrée Capital, Mindset Venture, McCarthy Capital, Selah Ventures.