Mate Security bets AI agents should act on threats only when context says it's safe

Security platform that lets AI agents investigate and contain cyber threats using an organization's own context.

That agentic cyberdefense can act autonomously — but only when organizational context, confidence and reversibility make acting safer than waiting.

Co-founders Asaf Wiener (CEO), Guy Pergal (CTO) and Oren Saban (CPO) started Mate saying they 'had to build context and trust into our product': the same alert can demand very different responses depending on the systems, identities, asset criticality and policies involved.

Its Reason Mining engine populates the Security Context Graph, a living model of the organization's security relationships. The CPR framework — Confidence, Precision, Reversibility — created by VP Product Strategy Inbal Argov weighs every proposed action, and Mate evaluates blast radius so containment stays narrow: revoke one session rather than an account, block one URL rather than a domain, isolate one host rather than a segment. It previously unveiled Gamebooks for AI-powered investigations.

Traditional tools treat alerts as technical signals; analysts must supply the organizational meaning, which doesn't scale as enterprises deploy more AI-driven security.

Blast-radius-aware responses keep containment narrow — disabling an account or isolating a segment can damage the business more than the threat did.

CPR gates autonomous execution on certainty of conclusion, precision of response and reversibility, so agents act alone only when acting is the safer choice.

Enterprises need response at machine speed but trust is the blocker — Mate's whole pitch is making the context that earns trust machine-readable.

Automation without context is just faster damage: the same alert deserves different responses, and a system that cannot reverse its actions should not act on its own.

On October 8, 2026, CyberSecurity Breakthrough named Mate 'Security Response Solution of the Year' in its 10th annual awards program. The program's managing director credited Mate with compressing multi-day MTTR to minutes — an award-program assessment, not an audited benchmark. CEO Asaf Wiener said the company will stay 'laser-focused on our customers' while building what it calls the foundation for agentic cyberdefense.