As enterprises accelerate their adoption of agentic AI, the connections that power these systems are multiplying. Today, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the primary connective tissue enabling agents to interact with software and data, and over 17,000 MCP servers have been deployed since its launch in November 2024. But most of these connections remain unmonitored, leaving enterprises exposed to risks that traditional security tools cannot see.
Helmet Security, built in collaboration with several Fortune 500 CISOs, was created to solve this problem outright: continuously discovering, monitoring, and enforcing controls on MCP servers today while building an adaptive foundation to secure all forms of agentic connectivity as they evolve.
“AI-to-AI communication is the critical foundation for the next generation of tech,” said Caleb Sima, Founder, WhiteRabbit Ventures. “Helmet Security provides the safety layer to make this a reality for the enterprise.”
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Enterprises are rapidly building on top of agentic AI, creating an innovation layer that must be continuously secured. Helmet Security delivers a business-first solution that ensures CISOs always understand, and can instantly act on how AI systems connect, communicate, and make decisions.
“Helmet Security is batting one thousand on early prospect conversions because the platform delivers the Wiz proposition of instant value and applies it to AI-to-AI communications,” said Jay Leek, Managing Partner and Founder, SYN Ventures. “Helmet gives enterprises an immediate, installation-free view into where and how MCP is operating across their environments, plus the ability to act on rogue connections. That level of ease, visibility, and instant impact is going to be a game changer.”
Architected by CTO Kaushik Shanadi, an experienced security architect and engineering leader, and led by CEO Fred Kneip, a veteran security and risk executive, Helmet protects innovation without slowing it down by integrating seamlessly with existing EDR tools and API connections in an enterprise’s stack for discovery and blocking.
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