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7AI vs Microsoft

7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop. Microsoft Defender offers threat prevention, detection and response capabilities. CISO Tribune files both under SIEM. 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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7AI vs Microsoft: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
7AI7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop.7ai.comMicrosoftMicrosoft Defender offers threat prevention, detection and response capabilities.microsoft.com
What it sells
  • 7AI Federated SIEM[5]Connects security sources, including a SIEM and security data lake already in use, and runs detection against them.
  • Investigations[3][4][18]AI agents investigate every alert to a conclusion rather than sampling.
  • Detection[4][5][9]Connects detection sources, maps coverage to attacker techniques, and flags noisy rules.
  • Response[4][5][6][15]Recommends containment actions and runs them against the customer's existing tools.
  • Threat Hunting[5][8]Hunts from a plain-language prompt or from connected threat intelligence feeds.
  • PLAID ELITE[3][4][13][22]Adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock.
  • Microsoft Defender[1][11][12][23][25]Threat protection that prevents, detects and responds to attacks across devices, identities, applications, email, data, workloads and cloud environments.
  • Microsoft Sentinel[1][23]A cloud-native SIEM built for AI.
  • Microsoft Purview[1][14][23][24][25]Unified information protection, governance and compliance products.
  • Microsoft Entra[1][15][23][25]Identity and access products that verify every identity and access request across clouds, platforms and devices.
  • Microsoft Intune[1][16][23][25]Endpoint management products for device security and hybrid work.
  • Microsoft Defender Suite[12]Threat protection and detection and response across endpoints, identities, email and SaaS apps.
  • Microsoft Entra Suite[15]An extension to Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 for secure workforce use of apps and AI.
  • Microsoft Purview Suite[14]A suite that provides advanced data security and compliance capabilities.
Categories
Headquarters
Boston, United States[2][22]Redmond, United States[3]
Founded
2024[2]1975[2]
Ownership and funding
Privately held[6][21]Public (NASDAQ: MSFT)[4][10][22]
Named customers
Not stated on its pages
  • Best Buy[5]
  • Danfoss[6]
  • Oregon State University[7]
Recent news
  • October 29, 20267AI announced that its Technology Alliance Program has reached 200 integrations.[19]
  • October 28, 20267AI announced it was named to Fortune Magazine's 2027 Cyber 60 list of venture-backed cybersecurity startups for the second consecutive year.[20]
  • July 27, 20267AI launched two offerings, Federated SIEM and 7AI Build.[11]
  • July 23, 20267AI launched a global alliance program aimed at partners.[10]
  • June 1, 20267AI launched three capabilities: Threat Hunt, Threat Intel Hunt and Skills.[14]
  • July 29, 2026Microsoft reported revenue of $90.0 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 18% year over year.[8]
  • July 27, 2026Microsoft introduced Project Perception, an agentic security system that uses AI to turn signals into real-time protections.[21]
  • May 1, 2026Microsoft announced general availability of Microsoft 365 E7 and Microsoft Agent 365 on May 1, 2026.[28]
  • April 29, 2026Microsoft reported revenue of $82.9 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, up 18% from a year earlier.[9]
  • December 22, 2025Microsoft announced the Defender Experts suite, an expert-led security offering for resellers and scale solution providers, generally available from January 1, 2026.[20]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[10]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, 7AI sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence. 7AI says the platform is shaped to fit a customer's existing tools, workflows, and appetite for risk. Its pages say that enterprises sit at different points in their relationship with the SIEM, and the Federated SIEM service lets a team keep a SIEM, move logs into a security data lake, or run fully federated. Teams can run 7AI directly, have 7AI run security operations for them around the clock, or build their own offering on it. Partners can build services on the 7AI foundation.From its own pages, Microsoft sells security products for businesses of any size. Microsoft 365 Business Premium is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, and Microsoft Defender is designed to protect individuals, businesses and enterprises. Microsoft refers to enterprise and government cloud customers, and Providence Care, a healthcare organization, uses Microsoft 365 E5 for healthcare security.
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September 27, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • 7AI and Microsoft are both filed under SIEM.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • 7AI's primary category is AI SOC analysts; Microsoft's is EDR and XDR.
  • Microsoft is also filed under Workforce IAM and SSO and Endpoint management and application control.
  • 7AI lists 7AI Federated SIEM, Investigations, Detection, Response, Threat Hunting and 1 more. Microsoft lists Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune and 3 more.
  • 7AI is headquartered in Boston, United States. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, United States.
  • 7AI was founded in 2024. Microsoft was founded in 1975.
  • 7AI is privately held. Microsoft is a public company listed on NASDAQ as MSFT.
  • Microsoft publicly names Best Buy, Danfoss and Oregon State University.

What it sells: 7AI

What 7AI Federated SIEM does[5]
7AI Federated SIEM connects security sources, including the SIEM and security data lake a customer already runs, and runs detection against them wherever they live. On sources 7AI collects, rules evaluate events as they arrive. On sources the customer keeps itself, rules run as scheduled queries against the data in place. Federated Search returns results normalized to OCSF.
What Investigations does[3][4][18]
A 7AI investigation is the end to end work an AI agent swarm performs on a single alert. Each agent step shows the agent's mission, the tools it ran, the exact request and response, and the conclusion it drew. Every investigation includes a copilot grounded in that investigation's own evidence.
What Detection does[4][5][9]
7AI connects every detection source the customer runs, maps coverage to the techniques attackers actually use, finds the rules drowning the team in false positives, and routes each detection to the right outcome. 7AI maps detections to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and scores coverage tactic by tactic.
What Response does[4][5][6][15]
7AI recommends the exact actions to contain a threat, runs them against the tools the customer already owns, and tracks every case from open to closed. The customer approves what executes. Built-in workflows cover actions like isolating a device, revoking sessions, resetting passwords, and quarantining files.
What Threat Hunting does[5][8]
A user describes a technique, behavior, or threat report in plain language, and 7AI builds the plan, investigates the environment, and returns a verdict in minutes. A threat intelligence feed can be connected to launch hunts automatically. 7AI saves each hunt with its plan, its findings, and its verdict.
What PLAID ELITE does[3][4][13][22]
PLAID is the 7AI operating model: People-Led, AI-Driven. PLAID ELITE adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock.

What it sells: Microsoft

What Microsoft Defender does[1][11][12][23][25]
Microsoft Defender is a threat protection solution designed to protect individuals, businesses and enterprises from malicious cyberthreats. Microsoft Defender coordinates protection across endpoints, identity, email, apps and cloud.
What Microsoft Purview does[1][14][23][24][25]
Microsoft Purview offers a unified approach to help organizations secure and govern data across their heterogenous data estate. Microsoft Purview covers on-premises, multicloud and SaaS environments, and structured and unstructured data. Microsoft Purview features are purchased through different licenses or on a pay-as-you-go basis.
What Microsoft Entra does[1][15][23][25]
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) was renamed Microsoft Entra ID in 2023. Purchase starts with Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license subscriptions, which can also be purchased as part of a Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 license.
What Microsoft Intune does[1][16][23][25]
Microsoft Intune offers advanced endpoint management and security capabilities available as standalone add-ons or as part of the Intune Suite. Microsoft Intune Plan 1 is the endpoint management solution included in most Microsoft 365 enterprise licenses. Plan 1 covers cross-platform device management, built-in security, mobile application management and endpoint analytics.
What Microsoft Defender Suite does[12]
Microsoft Defender Suite focuses on threat protection and detection and response across endpoints, identities, email and SaaS apps. The integrated security operations center (ISOC) is included in the Defender Suite.
What Microsoft Entra Suite does[15]
Microsoft Entra Suite extends Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 to enable secure workforce use of apps and AI with continuous, adaptive identity and network access controls across employees, apps and networks. Microsoft Entra Suite requires a subscription to Microsoft Entra ID P1 or a package that includes Microsoft Entra ID P1.

Questions about 7AI and Microsoft

What do 7AI and Microsoft sell?
7AI sells 7AI Federated SIEM, Investigations, Detection, Response, Threat Hunting and 1 more. Microsoft sells Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune and 3 more.
Are 7AI and Microsoft in the same category?
They share SIEM. 7AI's primary category is AI SOC analysts and Microsoft's is EDR and XDR.
Where are 7AI and Microsoft headquartered?
7AI is headquartered in Boston, United States. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, United States.
When were 7AI and Microsoft founded?
7AI was founded in 2024. Microsoft was founded in 1975.
Who owns 7AI and Microsoft?
7AI is privately held. Microsoft is a public company listed on NASDAQ as MSFT.
Which customers do 7AI and Microsoft name?
Microsoft publicly names Best Buy, Danfoss and Oregon State University.
Who are 7AI and Microsoft sold to?
From its own pages, 7AI sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence. 7AI says the platform is shaped to fit a customer's existing tools, workflows, and appetite for risk. From its own pages, Microsoft sells security products for businesses of any size.
What have 7AI and Microsoft announced recently?
October 29, 2026: 7AI announced that its Technology Alliance Program has reached 200 integrations. July 29, 2026: Microsoft reported revenue of $90.0 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 18% year over year.

About 7AI

7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop. Alerts arrive from across the customer's stack, however many tools the customer runs. 7AI categorizes, groups, triages, and reaches a determination on each one, escalating only what needs a person. 7AI ingests from tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence.[3][4]

7AI investigates every alert to a conclusion rather than sampling. A 7AI investigation is the end to end work an AI agent swarm performs on a single alert. For each agent step, a reader can see the agent's mission, the tools it ran, the exact request and response, and the conclusion it drew. Every investigation includes a copilot grounded in that investigation's own evidence. 7AI can guide an analyst to a pre approved action or take orchestrated response automatically, with humans on the loop.[15]

After an investigation reaches a verdict, 7AI recommends and runs the specific actions needed to contain and remediate the threat. 7AI recommends the exact actions to contain a threat, runs them against the tools the customer already owns, and tracks every case from open to closed. The customer approves what executes. Response actions run through the tools the customer already owns across endpoint, identity, email, and cloud. Built-in workflows cover common actions like isolating a device, revoking sessions, resetting passwords, and quarantining files, and custom workflows extend to anything the team needs. Teams can compose response in a visual designer with no code required. 7AI builds response automation into the platform and connects to the tools the customer owns rather than replacing them.

7AI Federated SIEM connects security sources, including the SIEM and security data lake a customer already runs, and runs detection against them wherever they live. A customer can keep its SIEM and connect it as a source, move high-volume logs into a security data lake, or run fully federated. On sources 7AI collects, rules evaluate events as they arrive. On sources the customer keeps itself, rules run as scheduled queries against the data in place. Federated Search queries connected log sources and returns results normalized to OCSF. 7AI Federated SIEM is generally available. Federated SIEM is the data foundation on which the rest of the platform runs, feeding detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting.[5]

7AI connects every detection source the customer runs, maps coverage to the techniques attackers actually use, finds the rules drowning the team in false positives, and routes each detection to the right outcome. 7AI maps detections to the MITRE ATT&CK techniques attackers use and scores coverage tactic by tactic. 7AI connects to detection sources already run across identity, endpoint, cloud, email, and SIEM. 7AI watches how every rule performs and flags the ones generating false positives at scale. For threat hunting, a user describes a technique, behavior, or threat report in plain language, and 7AI builds the plan, investigates the environment, and returns a verdict in minutes. A threat intelligence feed can be connected to launch hunts automatically. 7AI saves each hunt with its plan, its findings, and its verdict so it can be re-run or shared.[1][4][8][9]

7AI continuously sweeps the customer's environment, scores posture against the frameworks the customer reports on, and ranks exactly what to fix next. 7AI scores posture with coverage mapped to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 by control family. Skills let a customer's team define exactly how 7AI investigates, hunts, and responds, and a skill is written in plain language as a simple document. Enterprise Insights is the institutional knowledge 7AI draws on during every investigation, such as which domains are sanctioned and how the environment is wired. Skills shape how 7AI investigates, Workflows automate the actions it takes, and Insights give 7AI the context it needs about the environment.[7][16][17]

7AI describes several ways to engage. The customer's team can run 7AI directly, with dedicated AI Security Engineers who configure the agents to the environment. 7AI can run the customer's security operations around the clock as fully managed security operations. PLAID is the 7AI operating model: People-Led, AI-Driven, and PLAID ELITE adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock. With 7AI Build, customers and partners construct new harnesses, workflows, and entire services on the 7AI foundation.[3][18]

7AI says it builds a living model of each environment's context, and that dedicated AI Security Engineers seed that model at deployment while 9M+ investigations run since February 2025 compound it. 7AI also says that customers set the guardrails, define what agents act on versus escalate, and lead strategy. 7AI says a year in production at Fortune 500 scale has meant millions of investigations run and more than a million analyst hours handed back to security teams.[3][4][7][18]

7AI on the record

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