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Alphabet vs Exabeam

Alphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements. Exabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform. 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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Alphabet vs Exabeam: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AlphabetAlphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements.cloud.google.comExabeamExabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform.exabeam.com
What it sells
  • Google Threat Intelligence[1][2]Threat intelligence for understanding threat actors and potential attack vectors.
  • Mandiant Consulting Services[2]Consulting services for understanding threat actors and potential attack vectors.
  • Security Command Center[1][3]A platform for defending against threats to Google Cloud assets.
  • Identity Platform[3][5]A customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for apps.
  • reCAPTCHA Enterprise[3][5]Helps protect a website from fraudulent activity, spam and abuse.
  • Google Cloud Armor[3]Helps protect applications and websites against denial of service and web attacks.
  • New-Scale Fusion[1][5][9]A cloud-native platform combining New-Scale SIEM and New-Scale Analytics.
  • New-Scale SIEM[5][9]A cloud-native SIEM with search, correlation and AI co-investigation in a TDIR workbench.
  • Exabeam Nova[1][5][9]A platform-wide co-investigator for analysts.
  • Outcomes Navigator[5][9]Maps data to use cases and frameworks.
  • LogRhythm SIEM[5][11][12]An on-premises SIEM platform.
  • LogRhythm Intelligence[5][12]An add-on bringing behavioral analytics to LogRhythm SIEM.
  • NetMon[13]Network traffic monitoring for LogRhythm or New-Scale deployments.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesFoster City, United States[4]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2013[2]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesOwned by Thoma Bravo since 2024[5][7][8]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • December 22, 2025Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt.[7]
  • October 1, 2026Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities that bring AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance to cloud and on-premises environments.[15]
  • July 1, 2026Exabeam expanded its Behavior Intelligence capabilities to help organizations secure AI agents, autonomous workflows, and human-to-agent interactions.[6]
  • June 23, 2026Exabeam introduced Agent Behavior Verification and released Praxen, an open-source tool that tests an AI agent against its intended role before deployment.[16]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 3, 2026[8]
Who it fits
From its own pages, Google Cloud addresses organisations that own intellectual property in the form of highly sensitive data or that handle sensitive data subject to data protection regulations such as PCI DSS. Our reading is that Google Cloud addresses organisations migrating from on-premises to the cloud that want to replicate their on-premises network based security architecture as they move data to Google Cloud. Alphabet addresses customers that, as part of a migration to the cloud, may need to validate its compliance documentation, certifications and controls. Alphabet publishes regional compliance papers on the telecommunications industry. Alphabet's industry solutions range from improving retail product discovery to detecting bank fraud.Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity. Exabeam offers a cloud-native platform and an on-premises SIEM, so it addresses both cloud and self-hosted deployment preferences. Its pages describe replacing a legacy SIEM or augmenting an existing one with behavioral analytics and automation. Exabeam also targets organizations concerned with insider threats from both human users and AI agents.
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November 2, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • SIEM is the primary category of both Alphabet and Exabeam.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Alphabet is also filed under Threat intelligence, Incident response and forensics and Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP). Exabeam is also filed under AI SOC analysts.
  • Alphabet lists Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Exabeam lists New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more.
  • Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
  • Exabeam was founded in 2013.
  • Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files Alphabet under SIEM, Threat intelligence, Incident response and forensics, and Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), with SIEM as its primary category. CISO Tribune files Exabeam under SIEM and AI SOC analysts, also with SIEM as its primary category. Exabeam sells New-Scale Fusion, a cloud-native platform combining New-Scale SIEM and New-Scale Analytics, and it also sells LogRhythm SIEM, an on-premises SIEM platform.

Exabeam's New-Scale Fusion runs on Google Cloud Platform. Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States, was founded in 2013, and has been owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024.

Exabeam names Resorts World Las Vegas, SA Power Networks, MTI Ltd and Port of Antwerp-Bruges among its customers. Alphabet's Google Cloud addresses organizations that handle sensitive data subject to regulations such as PCI DSS. On recent activity, Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities on October 1, 2026, and released Praxen, an open-source tool for testing an AI agent against its intended role, on June 23, 2026. On December 22, 2025, Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt.

What it sells: Alphabet

What Google Threat Intelligence does[1][2]
Google Threat Intelligence is used to understand threat actors and potential attack vectors. Google Threat Intelligence is offered alongside Mandiant Consulting Services.
What Mandiant Consulting Services does[2]
Mandiant Consulting Services is offered to understand threat actors and potential attack vectors. Mandiant Consulting Services is offered alongside Google Threat Intelligence.
What Security Command Center does[1][3]
Security Command Center is a platform for defending against threats. Security Command Center covers Google Cloud assets.
What Identity Platform does[3][5]
Identity Platform is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for adding identity and access management to apps. Identity Platform integrates with the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API to enhance security for users. With bot protection, Identity Platform provisions score-based reCAPTCHA keys in the customer's project.
What Google Cloud Armor does[3]
Google Cloud Armor helps protect applications and websites against denial of service attacks. Google Cloud Armor covers web attacks against applications and websites.

What it sells: Exabeam

What New-Scale Fusion does[1][5][9]
New-Scale Fusion unifies log management, behavioral analytics, dynamic risk scoring and automation in a modular platform. It can replace an existing SIEM or augment current tools. It runs on Google Cloud Platform.
What New-Scale SIEM does[5][9]
New-Scale SIEM combines fast search, advanced correlation and persistent AI co-investigation in a unified TDIR workbench. Threat Center unifies alerts, cases, detections and watchlists. New-Scale SIEM is delivered from GCP.
What Exabeam Nova does[1][5][9]
Exabeam Nova follows analysts through Threat Center, search timelines and Outcomes Navigator. It automates background context collection, secondary searches and triage assistance.
What LogRhythm SIEM does[5][11][12]
LogRhythm SIEM is deployed on-premises for complete data control. It includes 1,100+ prebuilt correlation rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and compliance mandates.
What LogRhythm Intelligence does[5][12]
LogRhythm Intelligence applies AI-driven behavioral analytics to surface user and entity anomalies in the LogRhythm SIEM platform. It is an add-on to LogRhythm SIEM and not available as a standalone product.

Questions about Alphabet and Exabeam

What do Alphabet and Exabeam sell?
Alphabet sells Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Exabeam sells New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more.
Are Alphabet and Exabeam in the same category?
Yes. SIEM is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Alphabet and Exabeam headquartered?
Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
When were Alphabet and Exabeam founded?
Exabeam was founded in 2013.
Who owns Alphabet and Exabeam?
Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
Who are Alphabet and Exabeam sold to?
From its own pages, Google Cloud addresses organisations that own intellectual property in the form of highly sensitive data or that handle sensitive data subject to data protection regulations such as PCI DSS. Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity.
What have Alphabet and Exabeam announced recently?
December 22, 2025: Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt. October 1, 2026: Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities that bring AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance to cloud and on-premises environments.

About Alphabet

Alphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements. Alphabet offers security products that help customers meet policy, regulatory and business objectives. Google Threat Intelligence and Mandiant Consulting Services are offered to understand threat actors and potential attack vectors. Google Security Operations is used to detect, investigate and respond to threats.[1][2][3]

Security Command Center is a platform for defending against threats to Google Cloud assets. Assured Workloads provides compliance and security controls for sensitive workloads. Identity and Access Management is a permissions management system for Google Cloud resources. Google Cloud Armor helps protect applications and websites against denial of service and web attacks. Cloud Key Management is used to manage encryption keys on Google Cloud. Confidential Computing encrypts data in use with Confidential VMs. Cloud NGFW is a global firewall to protect cloud resources. Shielded VMs are virtual machines hardened with security controls and defenses. Secret Manager stores API keys, passwords, certificates and other sensitive data.[1][3]

Cloud Data Loss Prevention is a platform for inspecting, classifying and redacting sensitive data. Sensitive Data Protection is a fully managed sensitive data protection service. Access Transparency provides cloud provider visibility through near real-time logs. Cloud Asset Inventory is used to view, monitor and analyze Google Cloud and Anthos assets across projects and services. Secure Web Proxy monitors and secures egress web traffic to help protect cloud workloads. Web Risk detects malicious URLs on a website and in client applications. Chrome Enterprise Premium is a zero-trust platform with integrated threat and data protection. Assured Open Source Software lets developers incorporate the same OSS packages that Google uses into their own developer workflows. Sovereign Controls by Partners provides partner-operated sovereignty controls for Google Cloud to meet digital sovereignty requirements.[3]

VPC Service Controls protects sensitive data in Google Cloud services using security perimeters. VPC Service Controls helps protect against accidental or targeted action by external or insider entities, to minimize data exfiltration risks from Google Cloud services such as Cloud Storage and BigQuery. VPC Service Controls is used to create perimeters that protect the resources and data of services that are explicitly specified. By allowing private access only from authorized VPC networks, VPC Service Controls helps protect against data exfiltration by clients using stolen OAuth or service account credentials. VPC Service Controls adds a layer of security defense for Google Cloud services that is independent of Identity and Access Management (IAM). Google Cloud provides a restricted virtual IP that is integrated with VPC Service Controls. VPC Service Controls lets administrators monitor resource access patterns across service perimeters using Cloud Audit Logs. VPC Service Controls can run in dry run mode to monitor requests to protected services without preventing access. VPC Service Controls configurations are managed at the organization level by default.[3]

Identity Platform is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for adding identity and access management to apps. Identity Platform integrates with the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API to enhance security for users. With bot protection, Identity Platform provisions score-based reCAPTCHA keys in the customer's project. In audit mode for email-password sign-in, Identity Platform creates reCAPTCHA keys that assess traffic to Identity Platform APIs without blocking any requests. For phone authentication, Identity Platform blocks a request that fails the toll fraud assessment and does not send an SMS verification code. reCAPTCHA Enterprise helps protect a website from fraudulent activity, spam and abuse. Identity-Aware Proxy uses identity and context to guard access to applications and VMs. Cloud Identity is a unified platform for IT admins to manage user devices and apps.[3][5]

Google Cloud creates and shares mappings of its security, privacy and compliance controls to standards from around the world. Alphabet regularly undergoes independent verification to achieve certifications, attestations and audit reports. An independent third-party auditor has granted formal certifications, attestations or audit reports covering Alphabet's compliance offerings. Alphabet's certifications and attestations include ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO/IEC 42001, PCI DSS, SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3. Alphabet's compliance offerings include FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2 Validated and HITRUST CSF. Alphabet's compliance offerings include Protected B in Canada, StateRAMP, TruSight and the U.S. Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Cloud service providers cannot formally certify a customer's compliance with laws and regulations. Alphabet reviews laws and regulations and, where possible, provides guidance documents, mappings and papers that outline its technical capabilities and legal commitments.[6]

Alphabet's industry solutions range from improving retail product discovery to detecting bank fraud. Gemini platform is a fully managed AI development platform for building and managing AI applications and agents, with access to Agent Studio and 200+ foundation models.[1][2][6]

Alphabet on the record

Sources

Alphabet full record

  1. [1]SecurityGoogle Cloud · cloud.google.com · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]AI and Cloud Computing Services | Google CloudGoogle Cloud · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Security and identity products | Google CloudGoogle Cloud · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Overview of VPC Service Controls | Google Cloud DocumentationGoogle Cloud Documentation · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Integrate Identity Platform with the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API | Google Cloud DocumentationGoogle Cloud Documentation · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Cloud compliance and regulations resources | Google CloudGoogle Cloud · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Alphabet to buy clean energy developer Intersect in $4.75 billion deal amid AI pushReuters · published December 22, 2025 · Tier B

Exabeam full record

  1. [1]Exabeam new scale fusion security operations platformExabeam · exabeam.com · published July 1, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]About usExabeam · exabeam.com · published September 15, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Exabeam and logrhythm complete merger and announce new company detailsThoma Bravo · thomabravo.com · published July 17, 2024 · Tier B
  4. [4]Exabeam opens new office in plano tx expands customer service and support in north americaExabeam · exabeam.com · published November 3, 2022 · Tier A
  5. [5]Exabeam | Cybersecurity & Compliance with Security Log Management and SIEMExabeam · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Exabeam Expands Behavior Intelligence to Secure the Agentic EnterpriseBusiness Wire · published July 1, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Exabeam New-Scale Platform Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  8. [8]Exabeam Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  9. [9]New-Scale SIEM | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Exabeam | Cybersecurity & Compliance with Security Log Management and SIEMExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]LogRhythm SIEM | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]LogRhythm Intelligence | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]NetMon | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]The Exabeam Difference | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]The Agentic SOC, Delivered: Exabeam Accelerates AI-Powered Security Operations to Machine SpeedExabeam · published October 1, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Exabeam launches Praxen, an open-source tool to verify AI agent behaviorSiliconANGLE · published June 23, 2026 · Tier B

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