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Beacon vs Exabeam

Beacon is a platform for AI-native security that creates an environment for AI agents and security teams to autonomously prevent, detect, and defend. 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 AI SOC analysts. 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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Beacon vs Exabeam: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
BeaconBeacon is a platform for AI-native security that creates an environment for AI agents and security teams to autonomously prevent, detect, and defend.beacon.securityExabeamExabeam 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
  • Agent Lake[1][8]A layer that security teams connect to through APIs and MCP integrations.
  • Data Layer[1][2][6]Fuses telemetry across vendors and routes clean data to external systems.
  • Recipes[5][7]Expert-crafted logic that reduces data volume before ingestion.
  • AI Assistant[7]Lets teams describe custom enrichment and transformation needs in natural language.
  • Beacon Agent[7]Monitors the telemetry estate for new applications and missing sources.
  • 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
Privately held[2][11]Owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024[5][7][8]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • 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: listed, seen November 10, 2026[11]
  • 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
Its pages describe high-growth technology companies and private equity-backed organizations among its adopters, and security teams in critical, highly regulated industries. Beacon is aimed at teams that migrate SIEMs or run multiple SIEMs and data lakes in parallel. The company states multi-cloud, multi-region and bring-your-own-cloud deployment options.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.
Last verified
November 6, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Beacon and Exabeam are both filed under AI SOC analysts.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Beacon's primary category is Security data lakes and pipelines; Exabeam's is SIEM.
  • Beacon lists Agent Lake, Data Layer, Recipes, AI Assistant and Beacon Agent. 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.
  • Beacon is privately held. Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.

What it sells: Beacon

What Agent Lake does[1][8]
Security teams can plug into Agent Lake through APIs and MCP integrations. Teams use Skills to power their own agentic workflows.
What Data Layer does[1][2][6]
Beacon's Data Layer fuses telemetry across vendors, routes clean data to external systems, and pre-resolves entities. Data Layer automates normalization and enrichment at scale.
What Recipes does[5][7]
Recipes reduce data volume before ingestion by filtering, aggregating, and optimizing events while preserving detection-relevant fields. Expert-vetted Recipes deliver production-ready logic out of the box.
What AI Assistant does[7]
AI Assistant lets teams describe custom enrichment and transformation needs in natural language. Beacon applies identity, threat intelligence, and asset context in-stream.
What Beacon Agent does[7]
The Beacon Agent continuously monitors the telemetry estate, tracking new applications and flagging missing sources. Beacon Agent alerts when critical data goes quiet and resolves issues before they impact detection or investigation.

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 Beacon and Exabeam

What do Beacon and Exabeam sell?
Beacon sells Agent Lake, Data Layer, Recipes, AI Assistant and Beacon Agent. Exabeam sells New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more.
Are Beacon and Exabeam in the same category?
They share AI SOC analysts. Beacon's primary category is Security data lakes and pipelines and Exabeam's is SIEM.
Where are Beacon and Exabeam headquartered?
Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
When were Beacon and Exabeam founded?
Exabeam was founded in 2013.
Who owns Beacon and Exabeam?
Beacon is privately held. Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
Who are Beacon and Exabeam sold to?
Its pages describe high-growth technology companies and private equity-backed organizations among its adopters, and security teams in critical, highly regulated industries. Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity.
What have Beacon and Exabeam announced recently?
October 1, 2026: Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities that bring AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance to cloud and on-premises environments.

About Beacon

Beacon is a platform for AI-native security that creates an environment for AI agents and security teams to autonomously prevent, detect, and defend. Beacon describes itself as a security data management platform built to solve the tradeoff between cost, coverage, and context. Beacon says every extra log raises the SIEM bill, so teams cut coverage and lose the context AI agents need. Beacon automatically discovers coverage gaps, transforms and enriches telemetry with security-driven intelligence, and routes optimized data to any destination.[1][3][4]

Beacon's Data Layer fuses telemetry across vendors, routes clean data to external systems, pre-resolves entities, and automates normalization and enrichment at scale. Beacon provides native collection, integration, monitoring, and schema normalization across 150+ sources. Beacon has 150+ pre-built connectors and skills. Beacon collects security, application, identity, and contextual data via APIs, syslog, webhooks, and cloud storage. Beacon processes, transforms and routes data to destinations in real time using its streaming pipeline. Beacon's coverage and posture monitoring continuously maps sources against threats and compliance and flags gaps.[1][4][5]

Beacon maps data to ECS, OCSF, ASIM, or any custom schema. Beacon applies identity, threat intelligence, and asset context in-stream through expert-vetted Recipes and an AI Assistant. Beacon's expert-crafted recipes reduce data volume before ingestion by filtering, aggregating, and optimizing events while preserving detection-relevant fields. Beacon's AI detects and classifies sensitive data in motion, including PII, financial data, credentials, and secrets. Beacon ingests and routes security data from Claude with security-aware optimization, enrichment and normalization.[5][6][7]

Beacon's platform lets defenders use agents for detection engineering, investigation support, posture, and shadow AI analysis. Beacon supports building and running agents on an open harness with support for MCP, CLI, and API. Beacon includes a growing library of specialized agents built for the work defenders do every day. Beacon lists shadow-AI analysis, alert triage and investigation among the agents coming soon. The Beacon Agent continuously monitors the telemetry estate, tracking new applications, flagging missing sources, alerting when critical data goes quiet, and resolving issues. Security teams can plug into Beacon's Agent Lake through APIs and MCP integrations, using Skills to power their own agentic workflows. Beacon discovers AI tools across an environment and surfaces unsanctioned AI usage. Beacon Fabric has Discovery capabilities that scanned the environment of Lemonade to surface SaaS coverage gaps through agentic workflows.[1][3][4][6][7][8]

Beacon separates the data layer from the analytics layer, collecting, normalizing, and routing data to any destination in the format it expects. Beacon collects telemetry and routes it to a SIEM, data lake, warehouse, or cloud storage. Beacon routes the same data to multiple destinations simultaneously, each normalized to the schema that tool expects. Beacon has pre-built connectors for cloud, SaaS, identity, endpoint, and business applications, plus every major SIEM, data lake, and cloud storage as a destination.[6]

Beacon is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliant and offers multi-cloud, multi-region, and bring-your-own-cloud deployment options. Beacon is used by dozens of enterprises across industries from fintech to healthcare to hospitality. Beacon's adopters include high-growth technology companies and private equity-backed organizations. Lemonade is a full-stack insurance company offering consumer insurance products across the U.S. and Europe. Lemonade streams key telemetry sources through Beacon covering cloud infrastructure, business apps, endpoint data, and security tooling.[3][5]

Beacon was founded in 2024 by veterans of elite intelligence, offensive security, and enterprise-scale data infrastructure. Gal Tal-Hochberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Beacon, previously founded HiredScore. Or Mattatia and Iddo Israely are co-founders of Beacon with backgrounds in nation-state cyber defense. Beacon's founders come from Israeli Unit 8200, incident response at Sygnia and Mitiga, national cyber defense, and global technology leadership at Team8. Beacon's team includes incident responders, threat researchers, and offensive security experts. Beacon closed a $13 million seed funding round led by Notable Capital, with participation from Holly Ventures, AlphaDrive Ventures, SVCI, Jefferies Family Office and over 60 founders and CISOs.[1][4][5][9][10]

Beacon on the record

Sources

Beacon full record

  1. [1]beacon.securityBeacon · beacon.security · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Beacon SecurityBeacon · published July 16, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Beacon SecurityBeacon · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Beacon SecurityBeacon · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Beacon for Anthropic Compliance APIBeacon · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Security Stack ModernizationBeacon · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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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
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  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
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  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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