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Mate Security vs Mave

Mate Security is a cybersecurity company that provides an AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) platform to help security teams investigate, manage and respond to cyber threats. Mave runs investigations, searches, threat hunts, detection hardening, and governed responses across a customer's existing stack. CISO Tribune files both under AI SOC analysts and Threat intelligence. 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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Mate Security vs Mave: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Mate SecurityMate Security is a cybersecurity company that provides an AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) platform to help security teams investigate, manage and respond to cyber threats.mate.securityMaveMave runs investigations, searches, threat hunts, detection hardening, and governed responses across a customer's existing stack.mave.com
What it sells
  • Gamebooks[4][14]A structured investigation process where AI agents reason and pivot dynamically within every step.
  • Security Context Graph[13]Maps an organization's architecture, crown jewels, exposures, activity and relationships.
  • Agentic Threat Hunting[13]Agents initiate hunts across the environment and write detections to close coverage gaps.
  • AI SOC[1][14]Governed AI agents that investigate alerts, apply threat intelligence, hunt across tools, improve detections, and execute authorized response actions.
  • Threat Hunting[1][13]Runs continuous, cross-tool threat hunts for threats that never triggered an alert.
  • Detection Engineering[1][13]Finds coverage gaps, tunes noisy detection rules, and creates new detections.
  • Threat Intelligence[1][9][10][14]Converts relevant threat intelligence into investigations, threat hunts, detections, and authorized responses.
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Named customers
  • Bridgewater Associates[2]
  • Lead Bank[2]
  • Merlin Entertainments[2]
  • OCBC[2]
  • AlphaSense[2]
  • Applied Systems[2]
  • Demandbase[2]
  • Water-IT[2]
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Who it fits
Not written yetFrom its own pages, Mave sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools and want investigation, hunting, detection work, and response across the stack they already have. Mave addresses managed security service providers that want to scale without adding analysts at the same rate as customers. Mave addresses organizations with multiple SIEMs, tenants, and subsidiaries. Mave addresses organizations that want to reduce SIEM ingestion and retention costs. Mave addresses organizations that want alert triage, investigation, and response in-house, and organizations with on-premises workloads alongside cloud and SaaS. Mave also describes an alternative package for smaller teams.
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October 29, 2026October 23, 2026

Where they overlap

  • AI SOC analysts is the primary category of both Mate Security and Mave; both are also filed under Threat intelligence.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Mate Security is also filed under SOAR and security automation. Mave is also filed under SIEM.
  • Mate Security lists Gamebooks, Security Context Graph and Agentic Threat Hunting. Mave lists AI SOC, Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence.
  • Mate Security publicly names Bridgewater Associates, Lead Bank, Merlin Entertainments, OCBC, AlphaSense and 3 more.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files Mate Security under AI SOC analysts, SOAR and security automation, and Threat intelligence, and files Mave under AI SOC analysts, SIEM, and Threat intelligence; both have AI SOC analysts as the primary category. Mate Security sells Gamebooks, a structured investigation process where AI agents reason and pivot dynamically within every step. Mate Security also sells a Security Context Graph and Agentic Threat Hunting. Mate migrates existing SOAR playbooks into agentic procedures. Mave sells an AI SOC of governed AI agents that investigate alerts, apply threat intelligence, hunt across tools, improve detections, and execute authorized response actions. Mave also sells Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, and Threat Intelligence.

Both companies cover threat hunting and detection work. Mate Security says its Hunt Agents receive context from the Security Context Graph. Mave says it queries live data in the systems that already hold it, and that no telemetry migration, duplicate data lake, central index, or fixed SOAR playbook is required. Mave works across detection languages including SPL, KQL, YARA-L, Sigma, EQL, Lucene, and SQL-based rules. Mave lets the customer set what runs automatically and what waits for a human.

Mate Security publicly names Bridgewater Associates, Lead Bank, Merlin Entertainments, OCBC, AlphaSense, Applied Systems, Demandbase, and Water-IT as customers. Mate also describes a Fortune 500 enterprise SOC that migrated 711 SOAR playbooks into 10 Gamebooks. Mave is priced by the number of endpoints a customer protects and the size of the team, and it offers a fixed-price package for smaller teams.

What it sells: Mate Security

What Gamebooks does[4][14]
A Gamebook is Mate's investigation process, built for AI agents. Mate migrates existing SOAR playbooks into agentic procedures designed for AI-scale attacks. Mate ships Gamebooks for core investigation domains. A customized Gamebook runs through Mate's evals and tests before it goes live.
What Security Context Graph does[13]
Mate's Security Context Graph continuously maps an organization's architecture, crown jewels, exposures, activity and relationships, giving Hunt Agents the context to understand where risk is highest. Mate captures why an analyst made a call, not just the final verdict.
What Agentic Threat Hunting does[13]
Mate extracts IOCs and TTPs, then hunts across every connected tool. Agentic threat hunting prioritizes where to hunt and follows evidence across connected tools as the investigation develops.

What it sells: Mave

What AI SOC does[1][14]
Mave runs an AI SOC across the security stack a customer already uses. Mave queries live data in the systems that already hold it, reasons across the evidence, and takes the next authorized action. No telemetry migration, duplicate data lake, central index, or fixed SOAR playbook is required.
What Threat Hunting does[1][13]
Mave applies threat intelligence to the customer's environment and runs continuous, cross-tool threat hunts across the SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity, and other security tools. Each finding becomes a complete investigation, a new or tuned detection, or an authorized response action. Source telemetry stays in place, with no new data lake, central index, or prebuilt correlation pipeline.
What Detection Engineering does[1][13]
Mave works across detection languages and formats, including SPL, KQL, YARA-L, Sigma, EQL, Lucene, and SQL-based rules. Agents review, create, translate, test, and tune detection content in the existing workflow, validate it against historical data where it already lives, and commit or deploy approved changes.
What Threat Intelligence does[1][9][10][14]
Mave determines which campaigns, actors, vulnerabilities, indicators, and techniques are relevant to the customer's environment. Mave evaluates each threat against assets, identities, technologies, vulnerabilities, detections, and live activity.

Questions about Mate Security and Mave

What do Mate Security and Mave sell?
Mate Security sells Gamebooks, Security Context Graph and Agentic Threat Hunting. Mave sells AI SOC, Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence.
Are Mate Security and Mave in the same category?
Yes. AI SOC analysts is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Which customers do Mate Security and Mave name?
Mate Security publicly names Bridgewater Associates, Lead Bank, Merlin Entertainments, OCBC, AlphaSense and 3 more.
Who are Mate Security and Mave sold to?
From its own pages, Mave sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools and want investigation, hunting, detection work, and response across the stack they already have.

About Mate Security

Mate Security is a cybersecurity company that provides an AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) platform to help security teams investigate, manage and respond to cyber threats. Mate is an agentic cyber defense system that acts across every security use case. Mate grounds AI agents in organization-specific knowledge and validates every decision the agents make. Mate turns an understanding of a customer's organization into what it calls purified knowledge so that AI agents take action across every security use case.[1][10][11][12]

Mate's Security Context Graph continuously maps an organization's architecture, crown jewels, exposures, activity and relationships. Mate captures the context that a customer's tools never recorded, then keeps it sourced, scored and current. Mate captures why an analyst made a call, not just the final verdict. Mate stores data as entities and relationships, and its reason mining engine keeps the underlying reason behind each conclusion.[3][12][13]

Mate collects the artifacts, history, identities and tool outputs that an expert would check. Mate returns a conclusion with an evidence trail that a team can audit and tune. Mate runs data through cleanup, normalization and correlation.[3][12]

Mate checks every action against the customer's environment before it runs. Mate scores every action on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility, and the platform enforces this outside the agent's reasoning loop so that Mate cannot widen its own permissions, hide its actions or grade its own accuracy. Mate describes precision as the smallest action that stops the threat, for example revoking the session while keeping the account. Mate acts on its own only where it has earned the right, measured by proven performance against known-answer cases, and escalates the rest.[3][14]

A Gamebook is Mate's investigation process, built for AI agents. Gamebooks are a structured investigation process where AI agents reason and pivot dynamically within every step, and are customizable to align with a customer's processes. Mate queries tools as a separate flow, with access restrictions for their current task. Mate ships Gamebooks for core investigation domains. A customized Gamebook runs through Mate's evals and tests before it goes live. Customers can write an investigation in plain language, and Mate tests it against past cases, runs it in shadow mode, then waits for sign-off.[3][4]

Mate migrates existing SOAR playbooks into agentic procedures designed for AI-scale attacks. Mate analyzes and migrates playbooks to Mate Gamebooks, and the Gamebooks are validated before activating. A Fortune 500 enterprise SOC migrated 711 SOAR playbooks into 10 Mate Gamebooks.[4][14]

Mate extracts IOCs and TTPs, then hunts across every connected tool. Mate's Hunt Agents receive context from the Security Context Graph to understand where risk is highest. Mate moves through the environment, tunes detections as it goes, and pulls additional logs and context when something looks wrong. Mate correlates every match across tools into one picture, maps it to MITRE and provides a detection ready to deploy. Mate creates, tunes or deprecates detections based on investigation outcomes and contextual changes. Mate uses hunts and investigations to create and tune detections and to update the Context Graph.[3][13]

Blue City is Mate Security's simulated enterprise for testing AI security agents, where business keeps running during an attack and every defensive action has real consequences. Mate's benchmark scenarios build on situations the Mate system resolves in production, rebuilt with synthetic data. Security tools in the benchmark are accessible through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).[3][6][7][9][13][15]

Mate Security on the record

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Mate Security full record

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Mave full record

  1. [1]mave.comMave · mave.com · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Terms and conditionsMave · mave.com · published February 15, 2026 · Tier A
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  6. [6]SIEM Cost Reduction & Replacement | MaveMave · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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  8. [8]Multi-SIEM & Post-M&A SecOps | MaveMave · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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  11. [11]Detection Engineering with MITRE ATT&CK | MaveMave · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Threat Intelligence | MaveMave · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Pricing | MaveMave · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]AI SOC Agents for Full-Loop SecOps | MaveMave · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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