Platform · Know
Know first.
Say no only
when it matters.
Backplanes shows your security team every agent, tool, server and destination in use, and the few that need a decision. Nothing slows down, and nothing is blocked until you say so.
- 1,240sessions
- 12MCP servers
- 31tools
- 47destinations
- Sanctioned86%
- Unreviewed11%
- Worth a look3%
Three need a decision. Everything else was fine.
Why this comes first
Saying no to every request is not control. It is what a team does when it cannot see. Backplanes puts the picture in front of you first, so yes becomes the default and no becomes specific.
What you know on day one
Every agent, tool, server and destination in use.
One install and the org report fills in: who reaches what, how often, and what appeared this week. No agent changes and no new instrumentation.
External access
90-day observed window · generated now · organization-wide
The few that matter
The three things that need a decision.
Backplanes reads how your agents actually work and surfaces what is new, spreading, or unapproved. Everything else stays quiet.
- file-transfer.externalMCP servernew this week · 2 people
- bulk-exportSkillspreading · now on 6 machines
- paste.example.netDomainfirst seen · 1 session
Three need a decision. Everything else was fine.
Nobody slows down
Your engineers keep moving.
Sessions capture themselves when they end, redacted before anything leaves the laptop. A new server is noted, not stopped, until you decide otherwise.
› resolving MCP servers for this session
~/checkout-api $ mcp: connect file-transfer.external
new server · noted by Backplanes, nothing changed
› connected · 2 tools available
~/checkout-api $ run the failing test and fix it
~/checkout-api $
Before you enforce
Watch what a control would do, before it does anything.
Every drafted rule is replayed against your real sessions. You know what enforcing it would change before a single agent’s behavior does.
Warn on bulk-export
Skill · first seen 4 days ago · now on 6 machines
If this had been live for the last 30 days
14 sessions warned · 6 people · nothing blocked
Still a draft. Nothing enforces until you publish it.
When it matters
Enforce when you are ready, and not before.
The first controls are drafted from what you already know. Approve one, run it in monitor first, or leave it. Nothing enforces until you say so.
Backplanes proposes
Tell me what I don’t know. Because right now, nobody knows. There’s no visibility.
Former CISO · Enterprise Healthcare
When you are ready
When you do enforce, it is one policy across every form of agent activity, drafted from this picture, rather than five policies in five consoles. That is the next stage, and it starts from here.
Next
Start by knowing.
The fastest way to judge this is to look at what Backplanes knows about your organization after one install.