Source: www.securityweek.com – Author: Eduard Kovacs
Backline emerged from stealth mode on Thursday with an autonomous security remediation platform and $9 million in seed funding.
Operating out of Israel and the United States, the company has developed a platform that leverages a fleet of AI agents to help enterprises clear security backlogs by automatically fixing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations at scale.
Backline’s AI agents act as software and security engineers, analyzing potential vulnerabilities, collecting context, and determining how to optimally address an issue for the customer’s specific environment. The agents then autonomously implement the needed code and configuration changes.
The customer has full visibility and control over what the Backline solution is doing, and it can set the level of oversight and automation based on its needs and preferences.
The Backline platform integrates with existing security tools, and uses AI-native remediation playbooks that “ensure consistent, high-quality fixes that mitigate the unpredictability of out-of-the-box foundational LLMs”.
When an agent comes across a scenario that it cannot handle without additional input, it engages relevant teams via Slack, GitHub or Jira. The provided information is then used to further improve the platform’s autonomous capabilities.
Backline was founded in August 2024 by Maor Goldberg (CEO), Eran Leib (chief customer officer), and Aviad Chen (VP R&D). This is the third cybersecurity startup they have launched, after Whitebox Security (acquired by SailPoint) and Apolicy (acquired by Sysdig).
The company received seed funding from StageOne Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners and Google’s Gradient Ventures.
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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.
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