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Cisco vs Exabeam

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. 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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Cisco vs Exabeam: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
CiscoCisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data.cisco.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
  • Cisco HypershieldA security architecture for data centers that segments workloads and closes exploit gaps at scale.
  • Cisco Secure AccessA secure access service edge (SASE) product that unifies networking and security policy for a distributed workforce.
  • Cisco Duo[1]An identity security product that gives visibility into an organization's identity ecosystem and enforces access policy.
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)A network access control product that uses data from across Cisco's stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints and grant trusted access.
  • Splunk Enterprise Security[1]A security information and event management product that detects and responds to threats using collected logs and events.
  • Cisco Talos[1]A threat intelligence and research organization that supplies threat data used across Cisco's security products.
  • 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
San Jose, United States[3][13]Foster City, United States[4]
Founded
1984[4]2013[2]
Ownership and funding
Public (NASDAQ: CSCO)[1][2][10][12][13]Owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024[5][7][8]
Named customers
  • Marriott[5]
  • United States Golf Association[6]
  • Rosen Hotels & Resorts[7]
  • Elon University[8]
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
  • August 12, 2026Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026.[2]
  • May 13, 2026Cisco reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $15.8 billion for the period ended April 25, 2026.[9]
  • May 4, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a non-human identity security company, and completed the acquisition on June 29, 2026.[10]
  • April 9, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Galileo Technologies, Inc.[11]
  • November 25, 2025Cisco completed its acquisition of EzDubs, a privately held AI software company based in San Francisco.[13]
  • 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 5, 2026[12]
  • 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, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. Cisco addresses organizations with a global workforce that need secure access for humans, things, and agents under one consistent policy model. Cisco addresses enterprises that want to govern an agentic AI workforce. Security teams are addressed with unified intelligence and operations for visibility across users, systems, and AI agents.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
October 10, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Cisco and Exabeam are both filed under SIEM.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Cisco's primary category is Firewalls and NGFW; Exabeam's is SIEM.
  • Cisco is also filed under SASE and SSE and Network access control. Exabeam is also filed under AI SOC analysts.
  • Cisco lists Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Exabeam lists New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more.
  • Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States. Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
  • Cisco was founded in 1984. Exabeam was founded in 2013.
  • Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
  • Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.

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 Cisco and Exabeam

What do Cisco and Exabeam sell?
Cisco sells Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Exabeam sells New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more.
Are Cisco and Exabeam in the same category?
They share SIEM. Cisco's primary category is Firewalls and NGFW and Exabeam's is SIEM.
Where are Cisco and Exabeam headquartered?
Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States. Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
When were Cisco and Exabeam founded?
Cisco was founded in 1984. Exabeam was founded in 2013.
Who owns Cisco and Exabeam?
Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
Which customers do Cisco and Exabeam name?
Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.
Who are Cisco and Exabeam sold to?
From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity.
What have Cisco and Exabeam announced recently?
August 12, 2026: Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026. October 1, 2026: Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities that bring AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance to cloud and on-premises environments.

About Cisco

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. Cisco describes the offering as an open, network-native platform built to handle today's threats and enable the agentic enterprise at scale.

Cisco says its security applies policy, inspection, and enforcement at every connection. Cisco also describes unified data for earlier detection and faster response, powered by AI-driven context.

For cloud protection, Cisco describes securing modern cloud and AI apps at runtime with segmentation that keeps up with change, vulnerability shielding to close the patching gap, and protection for AI workloads. Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) is used to find malicious flows in encrypted traffic and to decrypt without sacrificing performance. Cisco says it stops zero days using Snort ML and Talos Threat Intelligence. Cisco offers distributed, optimized enforcement with unified management across a hybrid enterprise, and the same enforcement is described for data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.

Cisco describes a security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers. Cisco says the architecture closes exploit gaps, segments everywhere, and self-qualifies updates and changes.

For workforce protection, Cisco describes secure access for humans, things, and agents with one consistent policy model. Cisco offers a cloud-native security service edge (SSE) that includes digital experience monitoring. Cisco offers a single-vendor SASE that unifies networking and security for a global workforce. Cisco offers identity security for the workforce that helps see across the entire identity ecosystem. Cisco offers multicloud NAC with zero trust, which uses intel from across the stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints, and deliver trusted access.

For threat intelligence and response, Cisco describes detecting, investigating, and responding faster with unified intelligence and operations. Cisco says this gives a team continuous visibility across users, systems, and AI agents in a single platform. Cisco describes unifying the data fabric, analytics, tooling and AI to automate the mundane, clarify the complex, and proactively mitigate risk.

Cisco also addresses agentic AI. Cisco describes safeguarding the agentic workforce against malicious attacks and data leakage. Cisco says it integrates identity, access, and behavioral controls to govern an agentic AI workforce and reduce risk. At RSAC 2026, Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, challenged the industry to fundamentally reimagine security.

Cisco Services provide expert guidance to plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize an IT environment. Cisco says support for Cisco Security products is available through the Cisco support hub, which provides product-specific resources, documentation, downloads, and expert assistance.

Cisco on the record

Sources

Cisco full record

  1. [1]Security Products and Solutions for Cloud and Workforce Protection - CiscoCisco · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Cisco reports fourth quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published August 12, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]IndexCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Cisco systems reaches agreement with state city on major land purchaseCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published April 17, 1996 · Tier A
  5. [5]MarriottCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]cisco.comCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Rosen hotels and resortsCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Elon universityCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cisco reports third quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Cisco announces intent to acquire astrix securityCisco · blogs.cisco.com · published May 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Making AI Trustworthy and Observable in Real-Time: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire GalileoCisco Blogs · published April 9, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Cisco Security Services Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
  13. [13]Cisco completes EzDubs acquisition - CiscoCisco · published November 25, 2025 · Tier A

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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