Company context
Private, VC-backed
Early-stage AI security platform focused on large language model (LLM), AI app, and agent protection
Vendor research
Lasso Security
Review what this vendor says publicly, the security topics those statements may support, what remains unverified, and factual company context. This is not an assessment of product effectiveness or fit.
Company scale
Emerging?
EmergingAn early-stage provider with less than $25M in known funding, or 50 or fewer employees without at least $50M in known funding.This is a company-scale signal, not a product-quality rating.
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EmergingAn early-stage provider with less than $25M in known funding, or 50 or fewer employees without at least $50M in known funding.This is a company-scale signal, not a product-quality rating.A descriptive band derived from retained public revenue, workforce, ownership, or funding signals.
Company scale is separate from product features, effectiveness, and suitability.
- $6M known funding
- 11-50 employees
- Founded 2023
- Private-company revenue and profitability not sourced
Research coverageCounts describe available public research, not product quality.View details
- Vendor statements
- 19 records
- Source-checked records
- 13
- Evaluation requirements
- 19 in this research model
- Unresolved requirements
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Company intelligence
Who is behind the product
Company facts provide evaluation context. Each signal is kept separate because tenure, workforce, funding, and hiring answer different questions.
Founded2023
HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
OwnershipPrivate, VC-backed
Employees11-50
Capital and scaleIndependent company
Lasso Security
- Known funding
- $6M
- Operating scale
- Early-stage AI security platform focused on LLM, AI app, and agent protection
- Backing context
- $6M seed led by Entree Capital with participation from Samsung Next
Seed · $6M · 2023-11-20
Named investors
Entrée Capital · Samsung Next
Founders and leadership4 people listed
- Elad SchulmanCurrent role listed
CEO & Co-Founder
- Ophir DrorCurrent role listed
CPO & Co-Founder
- Lior ZivCurrent role listed
CTO & Co-Founder
- Yuval AbadiCurrent role listed
COO & Co-Founder
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There is no combined company rating. The company-scale label uses stated size thresholds; product features and effectiveness require separate evidence.
- Company tenure
- 2023
- Workforce scale
- 11-50
- Hiring activity
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Core company facts have supporting public sources.
Company sources and research limits3 linked public sources
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Company sourceLasso funding announcementLasso emerged from stealth with $6M seed funding led by Entree Capital and Samsung Next participation.Company sourceLasso LinkedIn profileLasso public profile lists Tel Aviv headquarters and 2023 founding year.Company information sourceLasso founding teamSupports the company facts shown in this profile.
Solution areas
These areas describe how the vendor approaches enterprise AI security. They do not establish product quality or fit.
Buyer context
- Buyer diligence should validate reference maturity and roadmap depth because public funding signal is still early-stage.
- May be relevant where the buyer needs AI application/agent lifecycle security rather than software as a service (SaaS) discovery alone.
Related frameworks
Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements
11 related frameworks · expand when needed
Related frameworks
Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements
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Current referenceCIS Critical Security Controls
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Evaluation questions
What to verify beyond public claims
These questions come from security requirements with some public support. Use them as starting points for demonstrations, documentation review, customer references, or a buyer-observed pilot.
- 01Unapproved AI use discovery
An unmanaged AI app used by a test user appears in discovery inventory with user, app or domain, and timestamp.
- 02Unapproved AI use discovery
The test user's AI usage activity can be filtered or exported with AI-specific context.
- 03Controls for unapproved AI use
A policy blocks, coaches, redirects, or contains a test interaction with an unapproved AI destination.
- 04Controls for unapproved AI use
The control event records policy reason, user, destination, action, and timestamp.
- 05Sensitive-data protection for generative AI
Sensitive prompt, response, or file test data is detected and classified during an AI interaction.
- 06Sensitive-data protection for generative AI
A policy redacts, blocks, coaches, or records the sensitive data event before it leaves the approved path.
- 07Generative AI application security
A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.
- 08Generative AI application security
A prompt-injection or unsafe-output test is detected, blocked, or flagged by the guardrail or large language model (LLM) firewall.
Detailed security-requirement research18 evaluation items · supporting evidence and open research are shown separatelyExpand
Security requirementPublic supportRelated frameworksWhat to verify
Unapproved AI use discovery
Strong public supportDiscover and monitor workforce AI tools, accounts, prompts, domains, models, users, and usage outside approved controls.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
An unmanaged AI app used by a test user appears in discovery inventory with user, app or domain, and timestamp.
AI-feature discovery in business applications
No supporting claim foundInventory software as a service (SaaS) applications that embed AI features, expose enterprise data to AI capabilities, or create AI-driven data movement.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.
Approved AI usage monitoring
No supporting claim foundMonitor approved AI workspaces, tenants, gateways, and model platforms such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude Enterprise, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Vertex AI, Elvex, or internal AI gateways.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
Approved AI workspace activity appears with user, workspace or tenant, model or provider, and timestamp.
Controls for unapproved AI use
Strong public supportBlock, coach, redirect, or contain non-approved AI use and policy-violating AI interactions.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A policy blocks, coaches, redirects, or contains a test interaction with an unapproved AI destination.
Sensitive-data protection for generative AI
Limited public supportDetect, classify, redact, or block sensitive data in prompts, responses, files, retrieval, memory, and AI-connected workflows.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
Sensitive prompt, response, or file test data is detected and classified during an AI interaction.
Browser and business-application controls
No supporting claim foundApply session-level controls in browser and software as a service (SaaS) workflows, including uploads, downloads, copy/paste, sharing, and identity-aware access decisions.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A session-level policy controls upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission in a browser or software as a service (SaaS) workflow.
Generative AI application security
Strong public supportProtect enterprise-built large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, prompts, application programming interfaces (APIs), model calls, tools, and production runtime behavior.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.
AI governance, risk, and compliance
Strong public supportInventory AI systems and owners, translate policy and regulatory obligations into governed workflows, assess risk, manage approvals and exceptions, and retain audit evidence across the AI lifecycle.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A test AI system is registered with owner, intended use, risk tier, lifecycle state, and applicable obligations.
AI assurance and adversarial testing
Strong public supportTest models, applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and agents before release and continuously thereafter using adversarial probes, evaluation suites, attack simulation, and security release gates.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A controlled test campaign exercises an AI model, application, or agent against named AI attack classes.
AI model and supply-chain security
Strong public supportDiscover, inventory, scan, validate, and monitor models, datasets, model artifacts, registries, dependencies, and AI development assets for tampering, unsafe serialization, provenance gaps, or malicious content.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.
AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controls
Strong public supportMediate model, agent, tool, application programming interface (API), connector, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through an enforcement point that applies identity-aware policy, content controls, routing, rate limits, and auditable allow or deny decisions.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A model, agent, tool, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) request passes through a named policy enforcement point.
Action-taking agent monitoring
Strong public supportObserve and govern agent plans, memory, tool calls, delegated tasks, autonomy, runtime decisions, and outcomes.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A test agent run captures plan, steps, tool calls, outcome, and timestamps.
Agent-to-agent communication security
Limited public supportAuthorize, log, and control agent-to-agent, agent-to-tool, Model Context Protocol (MCP), connector, and tool-chain handoffs.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
An agent, tool, connector, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) handoff logs source identity, destination, and authorization decision.
Non-human identity and service-account security
Limited public supportInventory, least privilege, credential hygiene, monitoring, and lifecycle management for non-human identities, workloads, service accounts, application programming interface (API) keys, and machine credentials.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A test service account, agent identity, or non-human identity appears in inventory with owner and privileges.
AI agent identity and permissions
Limited public supportRegister AI agents as accountable identities, bind them to owners and delegating users, authorize task- and tool-level access, issue short-lived credentials, review access, and revoke or suspend agent authority.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A test agent is registered with a unique identity, accountable owner, purpose, and permitted resources.
AI coding-agent and workstation security
Limited public supportDiscover and govern AI coding agents, integrated development environment (IDE) assistants, command-line agents, skills, hooks, extensions, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, filesystem access, commands, network activity, secrets, and software-supply-chain actions on developer workstations and build environments.
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
A test coding agent and its skills, hooks, extensions, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools appear in an attributable inventory.
AI cost and usage controls
No supporting claim foundVisibility, attribution, budgeting, rate limiting, anomaly detection, and optimization for AI usage and spend across models, agents, workflows, and owners.
Commercial MetadataNIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0ISO/IEC 42001OWASP Agentic AI Security Solutions Landscape
A controlled AI usage event is attributed to user, team, model, workflow, or owner with cost or token metrics.
Licensing model
No supporting claim foundPublicly discoverable commercial model such as per user, per seat, per app, per token, per integration, or enterprise platform license.
The vendor can map the sourced commercial model to per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, per-integration, or platform packaging.
Public sources
Vendor statements and quoted evidence
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Lasso claims continuous agent discovery, AI bill of materials (AI-BOM) inventory, risk scoring, ownership, intent-aware policy, compliance mapping, audit logs, and cross-platform governance from code to runtime.
A single source of truth for governing agentic AI from code to runtime.
Lasso claims automated agentic red teaming with static, multi-turn, and high-agency attacks, deployment-pipeline integration, adaptive policy generation, and one-click testing.
Stress-test application logic through static, multi-turn, and high-agency attack to uncover vulnerabilities and build adaptive guardrails.
Lasso claims an AI bill of materials (AI-BOM) spanning models, prompts, tools, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, frameworks, databases, services, guardrails, identity boundaries, and authorization policies, with continuous CI updates and supply-chain risk assessment.
Inventory every AI component, including models, MCP servers, delegated agents, databases, third-party tool connectors, identity boundaries, and authorization policies.
Lasso claims an Model Context Protocol (MCP) security gateway and intent-aware runtime policy enforcement across agent actions, tools, application programming interfaces (APIs), external connections, indirect prompt injection, memory poisoning, permissions, and data loss prevention (DLP).
Lasso's open-source MCP Gateway provides a security layer for MCP connections.
Lasso claims inventory of identity boundaries and authorization policies, ownership context, role-based permissions, and risk-scored governance of agent access to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), and tools.
Inventory every AI component, including identity boundaries and authorization policies.
Lasso claims risk scoring, management, and blocking of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), and external tool connections across Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex.
Manage or block high-risk tools across Claude Code and Desktop, Cursor, and Codex.
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Lasso Security platform materials reviewed did not provide a public product claim for AI usage-cost attribution, token or spend metrics, budgets, chargeback, or cost-aware model routing.
No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Lasso Security claims it discovers AI agents and homegrown AI applications via platform integration and CI.
Discover AI agents via platform integration. Connect via CI to automatically discover homegrown applications.
No public claim found for this capability.
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Lasso Security claims runtime policy enforcement through proxy, application programming interface (API), or AI gateway controls.
Enforce policies inline at the proxy, API, or AI Gateway layer with runtime protection that adapts as your application evolves.
Lasso Security claims it analyzes what sensitive data agents can reach and enforces policies inline at the proxy, application programming interface (API), or AI Gateway layer.
Analyze your security posture by understanding what your agents are exposed to, what actions they can perform, what sensitive data can they reach, and more.
Lasso Security claims it maps models, system prompts, tools, and guardrails and provides full context on attacks including which agent was targeted.
Maps models, system prompts, tools and guardrails
Lasso Security claims AI detection and response coverage for agent threats, including tool-chain manipulation and abnormal AI behavior.
what actions they can perform, what sensitive data can they reach
Lasso Security claims AI agent inventory includes exposed actions and sensitive data reachability to support agent risk analysis.
what actions they can perform, what sensitive data can they reach
No public claim found for this capability.
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Lasso Security claims it enforces policies inline at the proxy, application programming interface (API), or AI Gateway layer with runtime protection that adapts as the application evolves.
Enforce policies inline at the proxy, API, or AI Gateway layer with runtime protection that adapts as your application evolves.
No public claim found for this capability.
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