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Exabeam vs Gurucul

Exabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform. Gurucul sells unified Entity Intelligence, which fuses Behavioral AI with traditional detections across humans, machines and AI systems. CISO Tribune files both under SIEM and 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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Exabeam vs Gurucul: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ExabeamExabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform.exabeam.comGuruculGurucul sells unified Entity Intelligence, which fuses Behavioral AI with traditional detections across humans, machines and AI systems.gurucul.com
What it sells
  • 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.
  • Data Optimizer[7]Gurucul Data Optimizer filters, deduplicates, and down-samples logs.
  • UEBA[2][3][5][14]Gurucul combines UEBA capabilities with identity and access analytics for healthcare insider threat teams.
  • Virtual AI SOC Analyst[5]Gurucul's Virtual AI SOC Analyst performs L1 evidence gathering.
  • SOAR[8]Gurucul SOAR includes built-in response playbooks for use cases including incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, and compliance reporting.
  • Identity Analytics[11]Gurucul Identity Analytics (IdA) gives analysts a real-time, 360-degree view of activity on-premises, on mobile devices, and in the cloud.
  • Open XDR[9]Gurucul Open XDR includes a library of customizable response playbooks, federated search across the data fabric, and link analysis for contextualizing incidents.
Categories
Headquarters
Foster City, United States[4]Not stated on its pages
Founded
2013[2]2010[2]
Ownership and funding
Owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024[5][7][8]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • 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]
Not stated on its pages
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 3, 2026[8]
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
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.Insider risk teams are offered one entity risk score across employees and AI agents. Gurucul describes MSSPs as needing an open and flexible security analytics platform to tailor detections, investigations and response to their customers' requirements. For regulated industries, Gurucul names NIST, PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR, with on-prem, multi-cloud or hybrid deployment. Gurucul describes a managed healthcare insurance company among its customers. Gurucul describes a Midwest U.S. healthcare organization that turned to Gurucul to prevent insider threats.
Last verified
September 27, 2026November 3, 2026

Where they overlap

  • SIEM is the primary category of both Exabeam and Gurucul; both are also filed under AI SOC analysts.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Gurucul is also filed under Insider risk management and SOAR and security automation.
  • Exabeam lists New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more. Gurucul lists Data Optimizer, UEBA, Virtual AI SOC Analyst, SOAR, Identity Analytics and 1 more.
  • Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
  • Exabeam was founded in 2013. Gurucul was founded in 2010.
  • Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files Exabeam under SIEM and AI SOC analysts, and files Gurucul under SIEM, AI SOC analysts, insider risk management, and SOAR and security automation; SIEM is the primary category for both. Exabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response, including the cloud-native New-Scale Fusion and New-Scale SIEM platforms and an on-premises product, LogRhythm SIEM. Gurucul sells Data Optimizer, UEBA, a Virtual AI SOC Analyst, SOAR, Identity Analytics and Open XDR. Gurucul can be deployed as SaaS, cloud, on-premises or hybrid.

Both companies describe behavioral analytics and a way to replace a SIEM or augment existing tools. Exabeam says it applies behavioral analytics to both humans and AI agents. Gurucul also describes healthcare insider threat work, and its SOAR includes built-in response playbooks for incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, and compliance reporting.

Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States, was founded in 2013, and has been owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024. Gurucul was founded in 2010. Exabeam names Resorts World Las Vegas, SA Power Networks, MTI Ltd and Port of Antwerp-Bruges among its customers. Gurucul says Upwork modernized its SOC with Gurucul's Next-Gen SIEM. On October 1, 2026, Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities for cloud and on-premises environments. On June 23, 2026, Exabeam introduced Agent Behavior Verification and released Praxen, an open-source tool.

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.

What it sells: Gurucul

What Data Optimizer does[7]
Gurucul Data Optimizer filters, deduplicates, and down-samples logs. Gurucul Data Optimizer is built natively into the Gurucul SIEM platform and consolidates ingestion control, filtering, real-time transformation and contextual enrichment into a single engine. Gurucul can route specific streams to any SIEM, XDR, or low-cost cold storage while keeping the ability to search and replay data for compliance and forensics. Gurucul lets customers pick from a library of built-in integrations, spin up custom connectors, or request a new one in 48 hours.
What UEBA does[2][3][5][14]
Gurucul combines UEBA capabilities with identity and access analytics for healthcare insider threat teams. Gurucul uses user and entity behavioral analytics, with 97% alignment with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and integrates healthcare threat intelligence from CISA and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
What Virtual AI SOC Analyst does[5]
Gurucul's Virtual AI SOC Analyst performs L1 evidence gathering. Gurucul uses Agentic AI across the threat lifecycle for triaging, escalating and responding.
What SOAR does[8]
Gurucul SOAR includes built-in response playbooks for use cases including incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, and compliance reporting. Gurucul SOAR integrates with downstream security solutions to block, disable or isolate risky users and entities. Gurucul SOAR customers can add micro playbook services to standard processes and link them together in workflows for different remediation paths.
What Identity Analytics does[11]
Gurucul Identity Analytics (IdA) gives analysts a real-time, 360-degree view of activity on-premises, on mobile devices, and in the cloud. Gurucul Identity Analytics gives security teams dynamic risk scores and analytics data that help inform provisioning, de-provisioning, authentication, and privileged access management. Gurucul Identity Analytics addresses Segregation of Duties (SoD) violations and toxic combinations of access.
What Open XDR does[9]
Gurucul Open XDR includes a library of customizable response playbooks, federated search across the data fabric, and link analysis for contextualizing incidents. Gurucul Open XDR incorporates identity and access analytics with user behavior to detect, prioritize, and respond to identity-based attacks. Gurucul Open XDR is cloud-native, open, and architected to federate security analytics across globally dispersed cloud and hybrid infrastructures.

Questions about Exabeam and Gurucul

What do Exabeam and Gurucul sell?
Exabeam sells New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more. Gurucul sells Data Optimizer, UEBA, Virtual AI SOC Analyst, SOAR, Identity Analytics and 1 more.
Are Exabeam and Gurucul in the same category?
Yes. SIEM is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Exabeam and Gurucul headquartered?
Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
When were Exabeam and Gurucul founded?
Exabeam was founded in 2013. Gurucul was founded in 2010.
Who owns Exabeam and Gurucul?
Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
Who are Exabeam and Gurucul sold to?
Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity. Insider risk teams are offered one entity risk score across employees and AI agents.
What have Exabeam and Gurucul 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 Exabeam

Exabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform.[9]

Exabeam says AI agents now act alongside human employees, often at machine speed and massive scale, and that traditional security tools were not built to see or understand this behavior. Exabeam says it applies behavioral analytics to both humans and AI agents to help organizations detect signals of compromised credentials, malicious activity and misaligned autonomous systems earlier. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA) automatically baseline activity and expose anomalies.[10]

New-Scale Fusion is the cloud-native platform. New-Scale Fusion combines New-Scale SIEM and New-Scale Analytics in a modular platform that unifies log management, behavioral analytics, dynamic risk scoring and automation. Exabeam says New-Scale Fusion can be deployed to replace an existing SIEM or to augment current tools with behavioral analytics and automation. New-Scale Fusion runs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a 99.5% uptime SLA, and customers select a hosting region at purchase.[1][9][14]

New-Scale SIEM combines fast search, advanced correlation and persistent AI co-investigation in a unified TDIR workbench. Exabeam Nova is a platform-wide co-investigator that follows analysts through Threat Center, search timelines and Outcomes Navigator. Threat Center unifies alerts, cases, detections and watchlists in one workbench.[1][9]

On data handling, Exabeam says prebuilt collectors process more than 2 million events per second (EPS) and that customers can start with 7,000+ prebuilt log parsers. The Common Information Model (CIM) normalizes data at ingestion. The Exabeam Threat Intelligence Service ingests and scores commercial and open-source threat feeds, updates every 24 hours, and is included at no extra cost.[9]

LogRhythm SIEM is deployed on-premises for complete data control. LogRhythm SIEM includes 1,100+ prebuilt correlation rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and compliance mandates. LogRhythm Intelligence applies AI-driven behavioral analytics to surface user and entity anomalies in the LogRhythm SIEM platform, and it is an add-on to LogRhythm SIEM rather than a standalone product. NetMon monitors network traffic for LogRhythm or New-Scale Security Operations Platform deployments.[11][12][13]

Exabeam names Resorts World Las Vegas, SA Power Networks, MTI Ltd and Port of Antwerp-Bruges among its customers. Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity improve security operations.[3][9][10][13][14]

Exabeam on the record

Sources

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
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  11. [11]LogRhythm SIEM | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
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  13. [13]NetMon | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
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  16. [16]Exabeam launches Praxen, an open-source tool to verify AI agent behaviorSiliconANGLE · published June 23, 2026 · Tier B

Gurucul full record

  1. [1]gurucul.comGurucul · gurucul.com · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]About guruculGurucul · gurucul.com · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]International Pharmaceutical Company Case StudyGurucul · gurucul.com · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Gurucul | AI Security, Next-Gen SIEM & Risk ManagementGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]A Smart SIEM for the Smarter AI SOC | Next-Gen SIEMGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]SOC Transformation | Gurucul Security Analytics PlatformGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Data Pipeline Management for Instant Intelligent Savings | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Security Orchestration, Automation and Response SOAR | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Open XDR Platform for Unified Threat Detection | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]TDIR: Threat Detection Investigation and Response | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Identity Analytics (IdA) for Threat Detection | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]ITDR: Identity Threat Detection and Response | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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  15. [15]Unified Security Analytics Platform for MSSPsGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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