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Guardsix vs Gurucul

Guardsix is a European security company that sells a sovereign security platform for lean defenders, with products for SIEM, NDR, SOAR, fleet management and access governance. 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 SOAR and security automation. 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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Guardsix vs Gurucul: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
GuardsixGuardsix is a European security company that sells a sovereign security platform for lean defenders, with products for SIEM, NDR, SOAR, fleet management and access governance.guardsix.comGuruculGurucul sells unified Entity Intelligence, which fuses Behavioral AI with traditional detections across humans, machines and AI systems.gurucul.com
What it sells
  • Guardsix SIEM[4][7][8][9][10]A SIEM for lean teams defending Europe, with sovereign log management and audit-ready evidence.
  • Guardsix NDR[4][9]Network detection that pairs with Guardsix SIEM across IT and OT.
  • Guardsix SOAR[4][10]The automation and response layer of Guardsix SIEM.
  • Guardsix Governance[4][12]Audit-ready access control, built first for healthcare.
  • 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
Copenhagen, Denmark[3][8]Not stated on its pages
Founded
Not stated on its pages2010[2]
Ownership and funding
Owned by Summa Equity since 2023[3][4][6]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
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G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Guardsix sells mainly to lean security teams at European organisations in energy, healthcare, government and public services. It also addresses MSSPs and security service providers that run many customer environments. It names critical national infrastructure operators as a focus, and it describes its NDR for complex, regulated environments with IT/OT infrastructure. Guardsix Governance is aimed first at hospital IT and compliance teams. Guardsix frames its offer around organisations accountable to NIS2, DORA and GDPR, and says it is on-prem by default.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.
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September 27, 2026November 3, 2026

Where they overlap

  • SIEM is the primary category of both Guardsix and Gurucul; both are also filed under SOAR and security automation.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Guardsix is also filed under Network detection and response. Gurucul is also filed under AI SOC analysts and Insider risk management.
  • Guardsix lists Guardsix SIEM, Guardsix NDR, Guardsix SOAR and Guardsix Governance. Gurucul lists Data Optimizer, UEBA, Virtual AI SOC Analyst, SOAR, Identity Analytics and 1 more.
  • Guardsix is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Gurucul was founded in 2010.
  • Guardsix is owned by Summa Equity, since 2023.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Guardsix and Gurucul under SIEM as the primary category, and both also sell SOAR. Guardsix sells Guardsix SIEM, Guardsix NDR, Guardsix SOAR and Guardsix Governance, a healthcare access control product, and CISO Tribune also files it under network detection and response. Gurucul sells Data Optimizer, UEBA, a Virtual AI SOC Analyst, SOAR, Identity Analytics and Open XDR, and CISO Tribune also files it under AI SOC analysts and insider risk management.

Guardsix SIEM is self-hosted and air-gappable, with node-based pricing, and its content packs are aligned with NIS2, DORA and GDPR. Gurucul says it can be deployed as SaaS, cloud, on-premises or hybrid, and its Data Optimizer filters, deduplicates and down-samples logs.

Guardsix is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has been owned by Summa Equity since 2023. It was formerly Logpoint, which announced its transformation into Guardsix on March 12, 2026. Gurucul was founded in 2010. Guardsix sells mainly to lean security teams at European organisations in energy, healthcare, government and public services, as well as MSSPs. Gurucul names regulated industries and MSSPs as audiences, and it describes a Midwest U.S. healthcare organization with over 14 hospitals and 29,000 employees as a customer.

What it sells: Guardsix

What Guardsix SIEM does[4][7][8][9][10]
Guardsix SIEM delivers sovereign log management across hybrid, on-prem, OT and cloud. It is self-hosted and air-gappable, with node-based pricing. Ready-to-use content packs are aligned with NIS2, DORA and GDPR requirements.
What Guardsix NDR does[4][9]
Guardsix NDR pairs with Guardsix SIEM as one platform. It uses machine-learning analytics and stitches related signals into a single timeline across the seven phases of an attack. Guardsix says any analyst on a lean team can use it productively from day one.
What Guardsix SOAR does[4][10]
Guardsix SOAR provides automated investigation and response workflows built into the same platform as Guardsix SIEM. Playbooks execute locally.
What Guardsix Governance does[4][12]
Guardsix Governance for Healthcare gives hospital IT and compliance teams the visibility, reporting and audit trails that healthcare regulators expect. Reviewers comment, approve and escalate in-browser, and every action is preserved alongside the evidence.

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 Guardsix and Gurucul

What do Guardsix and Gurucul sell?
Guardsix sells Guardsix SIEM, Guardsix NDR, Guardsix SOAR and Guardsix Governance. Gurucul sells Data Optimizer, UEBA, Virtual AI SOC Analyst, SOAR, Identity Analytics and 1 more.
Are Guardsix and Gurucul in the same category?
Yes. SIEM is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Guardsix and Gurucul headquartered?
Guardsix is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
When were Guardsix and Gurucul founded?
Gurucul was founded in 2010.
Who owns Guardsix and Gurucul?
Guardsix is owned by Summa Equity, since 2023.
Who are Guardsix and Gurucul sold to?
From its own pages, Guardsix sells mainly to lean security teams at European organisations in energy, healthcare, government and public services. Insider risk teams are offered one entity risk score across employees and AI agents.

About Guardsix

Guardsix is a European security company that sells a sovereign security platform for lean defenders, with products for SIEM, NDR, SOAR, fleet management and access governance.[1][14]

Guardsix says its platform is aimed at European organisations that protect society, such as energy, healthcare and public services, and the partners who serve them. Guardsix says cloud-first security shifts control away from defenders while leaving accountability behind, and says it closes that gap by giving customers control over their data, deployment and operations. Guardsix says it designs for European legal and operational requirements, partners with regional cloud providers, and offers on-prem and sovereign-ready deployments. Guardsix offers on-demand or instructor-led training to help analysts grow from day one.

Guardsix SIEM is for lean teams defending Europe in energy, healthcare and government, and for the MSSPs who serve them. Guardsix says it delivers sovereign log management across hybrid, on-prem, OT and cloud environments, and continuous audit-ready evidence for NIS2, DORA and GDPR Article 32. Guardsix SIEM is self-hosted and air-gappable, and its pricing is node-based, so spend scales with the infrastructure rather than with data volume. Content packs aligned with NIS2, DORA and GDPR requirements are ready to use. Guardsix SIEM brings logs from IT estates, OT environments, identity systems, network devices and applications into a single instance that the customer controls.[7][9][11]

Guardsix NDR pairs with Guardsix SIEM as one platform with a chain of events across IT and OT. Guardsix says it uses machine-learning analytics and stitches related signals into a timeline across the seven phases of an attack. Guardsix says Guardsix NDR is designed so any analyst on a lean team can use it productively from day one. Guardsix SOAR is the automation and response layer of Guardsix SIEM, and its playbooks execute locally. Alerts from Guardsix SIEM and NDR enter SOAR with full context already attached, and Guardsix SOAR can expand with hundreds of additional integrations across EDR, identity, cloud and OT.[9][10]

Guardsix Governance for Healthcare gives hospital IT and compliance teams the visibility, reporting and audit trails that healthcare regulators expect. Guardsix says the access control model it built first for healthcare applies to any regulated environment where access has to be visible, explainable and defensible.[12]

Guardsix describes two audiences. For critical national infrastructure operators, Guardsix says it helps them. Guardsix points to hospitals, energy grids, water management and transportation as systems whose failure harms communities. Guardsix says it prices by the number of nodes, devices or entities in an environment.[13]

Guardsix was formerly Logpoint, which officially announced its transformation into Guardsix on March 12, 2026. Guardsix traces its history to a company founded in Denmark as a cybersecurity consulting business. Swedish investment firm Summa Equity acquired a majority stake in Logpoint, and Guardsix names Summa as its majority investor. Logpoint acquired the Danish cybersecurity company Muninn, specialised in AI-driven NDR. Logpoint also acquired the Israeli company SecBI, specialising in SOAR, XDR and automated threat detection. Mikkel Drucker joined Logpoint as CEO. Guardsix A/S carries the company reg. no. 26 30 19 39, and Guardsix says it is EU-HQ and EU-governed.[1][2][5][10][11][12]

Guardsix on the record

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Guardsix full record

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  2. [2]34576478235293 Logpoint is now guardsixGuardsix · servicedesk.guardsix.com · published March 12, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Summa equity invests in logpoint to create european cybersecurity powerhouseSumma Equity · summaequity.com · published March 2, 2023 · Tier A
  4. [4]Guardsix | Your closest ally in cyber securityGuardsix · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Product UpdatesGuardsix · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]About guardsix | European Cybersecurity AllyGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Guardsix SIEM | Built for Lean Security TeamsGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Guardsix for Compliance | NIS2Guardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Guardsix NDR | Network Detection & ResponseGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Guardsix SOAR | Security Automation & ResponseGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Guardsix Fleet | Centralised Security OperationsGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Guardsix Governance | Audit-ready access controlGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Guardsix Pricing | Predictable Cyber Security Platform CostsGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Master Terms of Service for SaaS-version of Logpoint SIEMGuardsix · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A

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
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  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
  13. [13]Cloud Security Monitoring – Multi-Cloud Monitoring | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Healthcare Cybersecurity Analytics Solution | GuruculGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Unified Security Analytics Platform for MSSPsGurucul · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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