Backslash Security

What is Backslash Security?

Backslash Security, founded in 2022 in Tel Aviv, now describes its platform as securing AI agents on endpoints such as developer and employee machines. It discovers the agents, models, MCP servers, tools, plugins and skills in use, assesses their risk and applies policies. The vendor also lists a SOC 2 Type II attestation.

Key capabilities of Backslash Security

• Instant Visibility: discovers AI agents, MCP servers, hooks, plugins and skills across endpoints.
• Agentic AI Guardrails: policies scoped by user, team, endpoint, component or action.
• MCP Security: assesses the MCP servers in use.
• Real-Time Protection: inspects agent actions inline and blocks risky ones before execution.
• Auditing and Forensics: traces from prompt to tool call to outcome.

How Backslash Security works

Backslash maps what agents run on each endpoint, along with their credentials, permissions and network connections, then scores risk such as excessive permissions or shadow IT. Policies decide which actions are allowed, and inline inspection can block an action before it runs.

Who uses Backslash Security?

Security and platform teams at companies where developers use AI coding agents. The vendor names Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Devin among monitored agents, and offers free tools including an agentic AI exposure assessment and a Skills Security Scanner.

Backslash Security pricing

Backslash does not state pricing. The vendor offers a demo, a free exposure assessment and a 30-minute call.

Backslash Security alternatives

OX Security focuses on application security and software supply chain posture across the development pipeline. Tabnine and Cursor are AI coding assistants, which are the kind of tools Backslash monitors and governs rather than replaces.