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Guardsix vs Splunk

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. Splunk sells a data platform for security, observability, and AI, and says the platform unifies petabyte-scale machine data wherever it lives. 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 Splunk: 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.comSplunkSplunk sells a data platform for security, observability, and AI, and says the platform unifies petabyte-scale machine data wherever it lives.splunk.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.
  • Splunk Cloud Platform[12][22][23][24]A platform to collect, index, and visualize data in the cloud.
  • Splunk Enterprise[1][12][14][17][18][22][24]A platform to collect, index, and visualize data using an on-premises engine.
  • Splunk Enterprise Security[1][14][17][18]A Splunk solution for security operations.
  • Federated Search[15][19]A search layer across the data estate.
  • Splunk AI Assistant[19]A natural-language entry point to the search workflow.
  • Splunk Edge Processor[21]A processor that applies cryptographic functions to data as it flows on-premises.
  • Splunk AI Toolkit[20]Guided workflows to build and deploy models.
  • Splunk Log Observer Connect[22]An integration that links logs to Splunk Observability Cloud.
Categories
Headquarters
Copenhagen, Denmark[3][8]San Jose, United States[4]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2003[3]
Ownership and funding
Owned by Summa Equity since 2023[3][4][6]Owned by Cisco[2][15][16][25]
Named customers
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • September 15, 2026Cisco released Cisco AI POD for Splunk, which brings Splunk AI features to on-premises customers on Cisco infrastructure with NVIDIA computing.[10]
  • May 28, 2026Splunk reported that Cisco has completed its acquisition of Galileo, with plans to integrate Galileo technology into Splunk Observability.[25]
  • April 9, 2026Cisco agreed to buy AI observability startup Galileo Technologies to add its agent monitoring tools to the Splunk observability platform.[11]
  • February 18, 2026Splunk announced that its hosted AI models are generally available for Splunk Cloud Platform customers.[23]
  • January 16, 2026Splunk announced the release of Splunk Enterprise 10.2 and Splunk Cloud Platform 10.2.[24]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 3, 2026[16]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
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.From its own pages, Splunk sells mainly to organisations that want security, observability, and AI data on one platform. Splunk describes SOC teams that index authentication and firewall data for real-time detections. Splunk describes a healthcare organization that monitors logs from medical devices. Splunk offers material for CISOs and boards on priorities, budgeting, compliance, and success metrics. Splunk describes deployments on Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform.
Last verified
September 27, 2026October 10, 2026

Where they overlap

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

Where they differ, field by field

  • Guardsix is also filed under Network detection and response. Splunk is also filed under Security data lakes and pipelines.
  • Guardsix lists Guardsix SIEM, Guardsix NDR, Guardsix SOAR and Guardsix Governance. Splunk lists Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
  • Guardsix is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
  • Splunk was founded in 2003.
  • Guardsix is owned by Summa Equity, since 2023. Splunk is owned by Cisco.
  • Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Guardsix and Splunk under SIEM, SOAR and security automation, with SIEM as the primary category for each. Guardsix sells Guardsix SIEM, Guardsix NDR, Guardsix SOAR and Guardsix Governance, and its SIEM is self-hosted, air-gappable and priced by node. Splunk sells Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security, along with Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and Splunk Edge Processor. Splunk describes a SOAR system that integrates orchestration, playbook automation and case management, while Guardsix SOAR is built into the same platform as Guardsix SIEM and runs playbooks locally.

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. Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States, was founded in 2003, and is owned by Cisco.

Guardsix says it sells mainly to lean security teams at European organisations in energy, healthcare, government and public services, and to MSSPs, with content packs aligned with NIS2, DORA and GDPR. Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama as customers. On September 15, 2026, Cisco released Cisco AI POD for Splunk, which brings Splunk AI features to on-premises customers on Cisco infrastructure with NVIDIA computing.

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: Splunk

What Splunk Cloud Platform does[12][22][23][24]
Splunk Cloud Platform is described as a way to collect, index, and visualize data in the cloud. Splunk says data can be brought in with agents, Splunk-supported integrations, and developer add-ons.
What Splunk Enterprise Security does[1][14][17][18]
Splunk names Splunk Enterprise Security among its solutions that use pre-written macros. Splunk describes AI Assistant in Security as available to cloud customers of Splunk Enterprise Security.
What Federated Search does[15][19]
Federated Search is described as the unifying search layer across the data estate. It covers Splunk-managed locations and supported customer-managed stores such as Amazon S3 and Snowflake.
What Splunk AI Assistant does[19]
Splunk AI Assistant provides a natural-language entry point to the search workflow. With Agent Mode enabled, an analyst can describe the investigation to perform instead of constructing each search.

Questions about Guardsix and Splunk

What do Guardsix and Splunk sell?
Guardsix sells Guardsix SIEM, Guardsix NDR, Guardsix SOAR and Guardsix Governance. Splunk sells Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
Are Guardsix and Splunk in the same category?
Yes. SIEM is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Guardsix and Splunk headquartered?
Guardsix is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When were Guardsix and Splunk founded?
Splunk was founded in 2003.
Who owns Guardsix and Splunk?
Guardsix is owned by Summa Equity, since 2023. Splunk is owned by Cisco.
Which customers do Guardsix and Splunk name?
Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.
Who are Guardsix and Splunk sold to?
From its own pages, Guardsix sells mainly to lean security teams at European organisations in energy, healthcare, government and public services. From its own pages, Splunk sells mainly to organisations that want security, observability, and AI data on one platform.
What have Guardsix and Splunk announced recently?
September 15, 2026: Cisco released Cisco AI POD for Splunk, which brings Splunk AI features to on-premises customers on Cisco infrastructure with NVIDIA computing.

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

Sources

Guardsix full record

  1. [1]Command centreGuardsix · guardsix.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  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

Splunk full record

  1. [1]ProductsSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Cisco completes acquisition of splunkCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published March 18, 2024 · Tier A
  3. [3]Get the most out of splunk infrastructure monitoring and splunk itsiSplunk · splunk.com · published November 17, 2020 · Tier A
  4. [4]Contact usSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]CarrefourSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]IntelSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]FinraSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Alaska airlinesSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]HondaSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Cisco delivers trusted ai at scale through new splunk advancementsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published September 15, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Cisco buys galileo strengthen splunks agentic monitoring capabilitiesSiliconANGLE · siliconangle.com · published April 9, 2026 · Tier B
  12. [12]Get Data In | Platform (last updated lastModifiedISO)Splunk · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Analytics Story: Warzone RAT | Splunk Security ContentSplunk · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Analytics Story: Trickbot | Splunk Security ContentSplunk · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Splunk | Data Platform for Security, Observability & AISplunk · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Splunk Enterprise Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier C
  17. [17]Using advanced macros - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]L’IA au service de la sécurité | SplunkSplunk · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]Investigating and searching across your data estate with Cisco Data Fabric powered by the Splunk platform - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]Preparing data for use with the Splunk AI Toolkit - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  21. [21]De-identifying PII consistently with hashing in Edge Processor - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  22. [22]Using Log Observer Connect with Cloud Platform - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  23. [23]Splunk Launches Hosted Generative AI Models: Native-AI Insights, Zero Setup, Maximum SecuritySplunk · published February 18, 2026 · Tier A
  24. [24]Announcing Splunk Enterprise 10.2 & Splunk Cloud Platform 10.2 – Next Generation Querying & AnalyticsSplunk · published January 16, 2026 · Tier A
  25. [25]Splunk Observability + Galileo: Bridging the AI Trust GapSplunk · published May 28, 2026 · Tier A

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