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Hunters vs Splunk

Hunters sells Hunters SOC Platform, a Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams that uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts. 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 Security data lakes and pipelines. 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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Hunters vs Splunk: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
HuntersHunters sells Hunters SOC Platform, a Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams that uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts.hunters.securitySplunkSplunk 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
  • Hunters SOC Platform[4][6][7]Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams. It uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts.
  • 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
Boston, United StatesSan Jose, United States[4]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2003[3]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesOwned 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: listed, seen November 4, 2026[11]
  • 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, Hunters sells mainly to small security teams and small SOC teams that want a SIEM without detection engineering. Hunters also addresses teams building out a first SIEM, with no prior SIEM experience needed. Hunters for AWS is aimed at AWS customers, and a separate offering pairs the platform with Snowflake.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
November 2, 2026October 10, 2026

Where they overlap

  • SIEM is the primary category of both Hunters and Splunk; both are also filed under Security data lakes and pipelines.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Hunters is also filed under AI SOC analysts. Splunk is also filed under SOAR and security automation.
  • Hunters lists Hunters SOC Platform. Splunk lists Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
  • Hunters is headquartered in Boston, United States. Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
  • Splunk was founded in 2003.
  • Splunk is owned by Cisco.
  • Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Hunters and Splunk under SIEM as the primary category, and both are also filed under security data lakes and pipelines. Hunters sells Hunters SOC Platform, a Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams that uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts. Hunters says Team Axon builds, manages and tunes its detections, and that no detection engineering is necessary. Splunk describes a data platform for security, observability, and AI. CISO Tribune also files Splunk under SOAR and security automation, and Splunk describes a SOAR system with orchestration, playbook automation, and case management.

Hunters is headquartered in Boston, United States, and Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States. Splunk was founded in 2003 and is owned by Cisco. Hunters for Snowflake pairs Hunters SOC Platform with Snowflake. Splunk's Federated Search covers Splunk-managed locations and supported customer-managed stores such as Amazon S3 and Snowflake. 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. On May 28, 2026, Splunk reported that Cisco had completed its acquisition of Galileo.

What it sells: Hunters

What Hunters SOC Platform does[4][6][7]
Hunters SOC Platform includes pre-built detections built, managed and tuned by Team Axon. Automated scoring, correlation and enrichment are performed 24x7. Hunters says it enables SIEM deployment in days, without professional services.

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 Hunters and Splunk

What do Hunters and Splunk sell?
Hunters sells Hunters SOC Platform. Splunk sells Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
Are Hunters and Splunk in the same category?
Yes. SIEM is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Hunters and Splunk headquartered?
Hunters is headquartered in Boston, United States. Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When were Hunters and Splunk founded?
Splunk was founded in 2003.
Who owns Hunters and Splunk?
Splunk is owned by Cisco.
Which customers do Hunters and Splunk name?
Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.
Who are Hunters and Splunk sold to?
From its own pages, Hunters sells mainly to small security teams and small SOC teams that want a SIEM without detection engineering. From its own pages, Splunk sells mainly to organisations that want security, observability, and AI data on one platform.
What have Hunters 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 Hunters

Hunters sells Hunters SOC Platform, a Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams that uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts.[4][13]

Hunters says running a SOC is hard and running a small SOC is harder. Its product page describes security teams drowning in noisy alerts and false positives, with lengthy and manual investigations, while small teams are expected to deliver the same outcomes as large SOCs. Hunters positions its Next-Gen SIEM as a way to make small teams more effective and efficient.[4]

Team Axon builds, manages and tunes these detections, and Hunters says no detection engineering is necessary. Hunters says it correlates data sources to identify attacks that could be missed in isolation.[3][4][5]

For triage and investigation, Hunters says automated scoring, correlation and enrichment are performed 24x7. Hunters says GenAI provides threat summaries, explanations and final investigation steps, and that analysts can respond with one click. The platform covers work from ingestion to response in one solution.[1][3][4][5][7]

Hunters offers a security data lake that customers can bring themselves or have Hunters manage. Hunters says all data is standardized to OCSF. Hunters for Snowflake pairs Hunters SOC Platform with Snowflake, and Hunters collects logs, events and telemetry through cloud connectors from sources including EDRs, NDRs, cloud service providers, firewalls and identity and access management tools.[4][6][7]

Hunters SOC Platform is also offered for AWS environments, where it ingests, indexes, investigates, correlates and retains security log and event data. The platform processes AWS data such as CloudTrail, GuardDuty, VPC Flow Logs and AWS WAF into a single schema. Hunters is available to AWS customers through the AWS Marketplace.[7]

On deployment, Hunters says its out-of-the-box solution enables SIEM deployment in days, without professional services. Team Axon experts are also available on demand for incident investigation, threat research and triage guidance, and for proactive threat hunting.[4][5]

Cyber Hunters Ltd is located at 82, Yigal Alon St, Tel Aviv, Israel. Hunters states that a Deloitte audit certifies SOC 2 Type II compliance, and that its information security management system complies with ISO/IEC 27001:2013.[1][2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10][12][13]

Hunters on the record

Sources

Hunters full record

  1. [1]Pathfinder ai press releaseHunters · hunters.security · published March 5, 2025 · Tier A
  2. [2]About Hunters | On a mission to revolutionize security operationsHunters · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]AI-Driven Next-Gen SIEM | HuntersHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Hunters SOC Platform: Next-Gen SIEM for Security OperationsHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Replace your SIEM | Hunters AI-Driven Next-Gen SIEMHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Hunters for SnowflakeHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Hunters for AWS | Detection and Response at Cloud-ScaleHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Hunters SaaS Terms of ServiceHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Integrations | Hunters SOC PlatformHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Get a Demo - Hunters for AWS: Detection & Response at Cloud ScaleHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Hunters SOC Platform Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier C
  12. [12]Privacy & Security - HUNTERSHunters · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Hunters SIEM - Analyze, Detect, Investigate Faster and BetterHunters · undated page, accessed November 4, 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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