Backslash Security is a cybersecurity company focused on securing AI-native software development and vibe coding environments. Its platform is built to give organizations visibility, governance, and active protection across the fast-changing agentic AI development stack, including IDEs, coding agents, MCP servers, skills, hooks, plugins, and LLM-connected workflows.
Backslash Security combines agentic endpoint security with application security capabilities that help teams reduce risk before insecure code reaches production. The company positions itself around enabling AI adoption rather than slowing it down, helping security teams govern modern coding tools while allowing developers and citizen developers to keep moving quickly.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Backslash Security delivers a unified set of capabilities for visibility, guardrails, and real-time protection across AI coding environments. Its platform helps teams discover which AI tools and workflows are in use, enforce centrally managed policies, harden developer environments, vet MCP servers and skills, and detect threats such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and unsafe configurations.
Beyond agentic AI controls, Backslash Security supports code and open-source risk analysis through SAST, SCA, reachability analysis, SBOM, and VEX workflows. It integrates into pull request and CI/CD processes and supports automation through tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, and Azure Pipelines, along with collaboration workflows in Jira, Monday.com, ServiceNow, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Backslash Security also supports modern AI coding environments including Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot.
Products and Services
- Backslash Vibe Coding Security Platform: Flagship platform for securing AI-driven software development across IDEs, CLIs, agents, MCP servers, skills, and LLM-connected workflows with centralized visibility, governance, and protection.
- Vibe Coding Dashboard: Dashboard that shows where AI coding agents, AI models, MCP servers, and prompt rules are used across developer infrastructure and assesses their security posture.
- MCP Server Security: Capability for analyzing, vetting, hardening, and monitoring MCP servers to reduce risks such as excessive permissions, insecure configuration, prompt injection, and data leakage.
- AI Agent and IDE Hardening: Controls for monitoring and enforcing secure configuration, permissions, file access, and network access across AI agents and IDE environments.
- Secure AI Prompt Rules: Centralized prompt-rule capability that injects security guidance into AI coding workflows so generated code aligns with secure coding practices and internal policies.
- AI Coding Security Assistant: Backslash MCP Server-based assistant that extends LLMs with real-time open-source vulnerability insight and remediation guidance during code generation.
- MCP Server Security Hub: Free searchable MCP risk database for reviewing MCP server security posture, provenance, attack vectors, and related risk signals before adoption.
- Skills Security Scanner: Free scanner for detecting security risks in AI agent Skills and related instruction files before they are introduced into agent workflows.
- Claw-Hunter: Open-source tool for discovering and assessing OpenClaw-related risks in agentic AI environments.
- Backslash SAST: Static application security testing offering that prioritizes exploitable code vulnerabilities using source-to-sink and exposure-aware analysis.
- Backslash SCA: Software composition analysis offering that prioritizes reachable open-source vulnerabilities, detects phantom and malicious packages, and supports remediation decisions.
- Backslash Reachability Analysis: Analysis capability that determines whether vulnerable code and dependencies are actually reachable and exploitable in the application context.
- Backslash SBOM & VEX: SBOM and VEX capability that inventories software components and produces transparency artifacts in standard formats for compliance and software supply chain risk management.
Target Customers
Backslash Security targets enterprise security organizations that need to control AI-assisted and AI-native software development without blocking adoption. Its buyers include AppSec teams, product security teams, and security leaders responsible for governing developer tooling, reducing exposure from MCP servers and agentic workflows, and improving the security of AI-generated code.
Backslash Security is also aimed at software engineering organizations and AI governance teams operating modern development environments with tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and other coding agents. It is especially relevant for companies with large developer populations, cloud-native application portfolios, compliance requirements, and growing use of developer and citizen-developer endpoints.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Backslash Security has a verified AWS Marketplace listing for Backslash Vibe Coding Security Platform, offered as a SaaS product deployed on AWS for procurement and subscription through AWS Marketplace.
Key People
- Shahar Man: CEO & Co-founder
- Yossi Pik: CTO & Co-founder
- Ron Zoran: Independent Board Member
- Gil Friedman: Field CTO
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
- Employees: Approximately 30-40
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Gartner Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2024 – Sample Vendor. Gartner Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2024 – Sample Vendor.
