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Lasso Security vs Orchid Security

Lasso Security sells an AI Security Platform that covers discovery, AI risk assessment and runtime protection. Orchid Security sells an identity-first security platform that discovers, analyzes, governs, and proves identity controls across applications. CISO Tribune files both under AI model and agent security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Lasso Security vs Orchid Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Lasso SecurityLasso Security sells an AI Security Platform that covers discovery, AI risk assessment and runtime protection.lasso.securityOrchid SecurityOrchid Security sells an identity-first security platform that discovers, analyzes, governs, and proves identity controls across applications.orchid.security
What it sells
  • AI Security Platform[4]Covers discovery, AI risk assessment and runtime protection.
  • Orchid Security PlatformAn identity-first security platform that discovers, analyzes, governs, and proves identity controls across all applications.
  • Orchid Identity Audit[8]Continuous observability to identify Identity Dark Matter across all managed and unmanaged environments.
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Headquarters
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Founded
2023[2]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Privately heldNot stated on its pages
Named customers
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Recent news
  • September 2, 2026Lasso Security launched an AI guardrail that runs on CPUs only and raised $30 million.[3]
  • September 15, 2026Orchid Security unveiled AI readiness controls for AI agents, covering ongoing identity drift detection and kill switches operating at the application level.[14]
  • September 9, 2026Orchid Security announced identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for AI agents.[12]
  • May 28, 2026Orchid Security extended its Identity Control Plane with capabilities aimed at governing AI agents.[13]
  • February 5, 2026Orchid Security unveiled Identity Audit, which combines audit data from unmanaged applications with audit logs from governed IAM systems into a unified view of identity activity.[11]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Lasso Security describes its AI Security Platform as built for enterprises. Lasso Security addresses security teams that own the AI attack surface, from agent discovery and adversarial testing to runtime enforcement. Lasso Security addresses enterprises whose staff use SaaS and web chatbots, local desktop agents and MCPs across every department.From its own pages, Orchid Security sells mainly to teams in regulated industries under audit pressure and to identity programs with persistent blind spots. Orchid says it covers self-hosted and SaaS applications, along with cloud, on-prem, legacy, and custom-built applications. Orchid describes the risk of orphaned accounts left behind during an acquisition, so organisations that grow through acquisitions are among the buyers it addresses. Orchid integrates with existing IAM, PAM, and IGA tools rather than replacing them, so it speaks to organisations that already run those systems.
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November 2, 2026October 29, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Lasso Security and Orchid Security are both filed under AI model and agent security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Lasso Security's primary category is AI firewalls and guardrails; Orchid Security's is Identity governance and administration.
  • Lasso Security is also filed under Workforce AI usage security. Orchid Security is also filed under Privileged access management and Non-human identity security.
  • Lasso Security lists AI Security Platform. Orchid Security lists Orchid Security Platform and Orchid Identity Audit.
  • Lasso Security was founded in 2023.
  • Lasso Security is privately held.

What it sells: Orchid Security

What Orchid Security Platform does
Orchid discovers SaaS, cloud, on-prem, legacy, and custom-built applications automatically. Orchid analyzes authentication and authorization flows, detects risk, enforces policies, and automates remediation. Orchid integrates with existing IAM, PAM, and IGA tools to enhance visibility and governance.
What Orchid Identity Audit does[8]
Orchid Identity Audit maps identities across all applications, including those using legacy or retired domains. Orchid identifies high risk accounts that lack ownership or appear in dark web credential leaks. Orchid provides continuous evidence of decommissioned accounts.

Questions about Lasso Security and Orchid Security

What do Lasso Security and Orchid Security sell?
Lasso Security sells AI Security Platform. Orchid Security sells Orchid Security Platform and Orchid Identity Audit.
Are Lasso Security and Orchid Security in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Lasso Security's primary category is AI firewalls and guardrails and Orchid Security's is Identity governance and administration.
When were Lasso Security and Orchid Security founded?
Lasso Security was founded in 2023.
Who owns Lasso Security and Orchid Security?
Lasso Security is privately held.
Who are Lasso Security and Orchid Security sold to?
From its own pages, Lasso Security describes its AI Security Platform as built for enterprises. From its own pages, Orchid Security sells mainly to teams in regulated industries under audit pressure and to identity programs with persistent blind spots.
What have Lasso Security and Orchid Security announced recently?
September 2, 2026: Lasso Security launched an AI guardrail that runs on CPUs only and raised $30 million. September 15, 2026: Orchid Security unveiled AI readiness controls for AI agents, covering ongoing identity drift detection and kill switches operating at the application level.

About Lasso Security

Lasso Security sells an AI Security Platform that covers discovery, AI risk assessment and runtime protection. Lasso Security offers protection for every AI agent an organization builds and deploys, wherever it runs. Lasso Security secures autonomous AI agents, LLM applications and agentic workflows from build-time through runtime. Lasso Security states that decentralized ownership has led to Shadow AI across the enterprise. Lasso Security states that security teams have zero visibility into the AI tools and agents that employees are using and creating. Lasso Security states that everyone from HR to Marketing is now using or building agents.[1][4][5][6]

Lasso discovers every agent and AI application across an environment, consolidates them into a single inventory and assesses risk across the agentic ecosystem. Lasso inventories AI components including models, MCP servers, delegated agents, databases, third-party tool connectors, identity boundaries and authorization policies. Lasso connects through native integrations with CI platforms and low code no code agent builder platforms such as Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Google Vertex AI and Salesforce Agentforce. Lasso uses an agentless, read-only integration into CI pipelines and native integrations with cloud providers and third-party agent builder tools.[4][5]

For posture management, Lasso visualizes how every agent is built, what is exploitable and how to fix it before the agent reaches production. Lasso posture coverage spans OWASP, MITRE, NIST, the EU AI Act and internal policies. Lasso identifies misconfigurations, risky tool access, weak guardrails, exposed dependencies and potential attack paths. Lasso assesses agentic architecture for compliance and governance requirements, including NIST, the EU AI Act and company-specific AI policies.[7]

Lasso identifies exploitable vulnerabilities through high-agency adversarial testing and auto-updates policies with purple teaming. Lasso integrates with a CI/CD pipeline so red teaming simulations can run automatically on every application update. Before an attack runs, Lasso performs optional reconnaissance to map the profile of the application. The Lasso agentic attack engine runs multi-turn adversarial simulations that evolve across conversation turns. Lasso red teaming runs from the Lasso tenant, with no agents, no code changes and no source code access.[1][4][8]

Lasso enforces policies inline at the proxy, API or AI Gateway layer. Lasso detects and terminates AI threats across an environment, with coverage including MITRE and OWASP. Lasso monitors every interaction across the AI stack, from tool calls and RAG retrievals to sub-agent communications. Lasso enforces predefined and custom security policies inline before agent actions execute. Lasso builds a behavioral baseline for every AI user and agent in an environment. Lasso flags deviations from the behavioral baseline in real time, including novel attack techniques with no existing signature. Lasso runs as a lightweight layer alongside an existing stack with no architectural changes required. Lasso shows alerts and audit logs directly in Lasso or streams findings into a SIEM alongside other security telemetry.[1][4][9]

Lasso's Intent Deputy secures AI agents with real-time intent analysis. Lasso takes action according to a security threshold, either blocking the request or sending an alert. Lasso decodes the semantic meaning behind every request to detect hidden malicious commands behind techniques like obfuscation, adversarial embeddings and payload splitting. Lasso uses an 8-dimensional coordinate system to provide human-readable evidence for legal and risk teams.[10]

Lasso enables enterprises to use AI across every department, from SaaS and web chatbots to local desktop agents and MCPs. Lasso discovers, inventories and assesses every AI asset across an enterprise, from models to SaaS and web chatbots to local desktop agents or homegrown agents and their connected tools. Lasso detects in real time whether PII, PCI or other sensitive data is shared in prompts or file uploads, and masks that content before the prompt is sent to third-party models. Lasso limits which AI agents are available to certain roles and restricts high-risk actions based on clearance levels. Lasso maps policies to NIST, OWASP and MITRE using plug-and-play templates, or enforces internal rules with custom policies.[6]

Lasso Security governs the lifecycle of AI agents from build-time to runtime for agents built on Vertex AI, Microsoft Copilot, AWS Bedrock, Salesforce Agentforce or any other cloud or third-party service. Lasso gives risk scores that highlight which agents require immediate attention. Lasso maps agents and their connections to third-party tools, databases and internal services to identify potential attack paths. Lasso applies real-time guardrails at the moment of interaction that block malicious inputs, sanitize outputs and enforce content policies.[8][11][12][13]

Lasso Security on the record

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Lasso Security full record

  1. [1]Secure AI Adoption at Enterprise Scale | LassoLasso Security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Lasso security announces future of ai security with cpu based guardrailsLasso Security via GlobeNewswire · globenewswire.com · published September 2, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Lasso Security launches CPU-only AI guardrail, raises $30MSiliconANGLE · published September 2, 2026 · Tier B
  4. [4]AI Security Platform for Agents & AI ApplicationsLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]AI Discovery & AI-BOM for Enterprise SecurityLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Usage Control for Enterprise Security | Lasso SecurityLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]AI Security Posture Management | Lasso SecurityLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]AI Red Teaming | Lasso SecurityLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI Detection & Response | Lasso SecurityLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Intent Security for AI Agents | Lasso SecurityLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Enterprise AI Agent Security for Copilot, Vertex AI & BedrockLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]AI Application Security | Lasso SecurityLasso Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Information Security Policy & Data ProtectionLasso Security · published February 22, 2024 · Tier A

Orchid Security full record

  1. [1]orchid.securityOrchid Security · orchid.security · undated page, accessed October 29, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Ai readinessOrchid Security · orchid.security · published September 9, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Orchid - Identity Visibility and Intelligence for the Application LayerOrchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Bringing Clarity to the Complexity of IdentityOrchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Agentic AI Identity Security: Closing the Gaps Agents ExploitOrchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Identity Security Platform: Uncover Identity Dark MatterOrchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Beyond Shadow IT: The Identity Dark Matter Undermining ComplianceOrchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Security That Survives the Acquisition.Orchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Customer StoriesOrchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Why 50% of Identity Projects Fail (And How to Fix the "Blueprint")Orchid Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Orchid Launches Identity Audit to Illuminate the Dark Matter of Enterprise Identity ActivityOrchid Security · published February 5, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Orchid Security Adds AI Readiness Controls: Identity Drift Detection and Application-Level Kill Switches for AI AgentsGlobeNewswire · published September 9, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Orchid Security targets AI agent sprawl with new identity governance toolsSiliconANGLE · published May 28, 2026 · Tier B
  14. [14]Orchid Security Introduces AI Agent Readiness Controls Featuring Continuous Identity Monitoring and Kill-Switch CapabilitiesCSO Online · published September 15, 2026 · Tier B

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