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Mate Security vs Splunk

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. 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 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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Mate Security vs Splunk: 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.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
  • 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.
  • 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
Not stated on its pagesSan 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
  • Bridgewater Associates[2]
  • Lead Bank[2]
  • Merlin Entertainments[2]
  • OCBC[2]
  • AlphaSense[2]
  • Applied Systems[2]
  • Demandbase[2]
  • Water-IT[2]
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
Not written yetFrom 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
October 29, 2026October 10, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Mate Security and Splunk are both filed under SOAR and security automation.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Mate Security's primary category is AI SOC analysts; Splunk's is SIEM.
  • Mate Security is also filed under Threat intelligence. Splunk is also filed under Security data lakes and pipelines.
  • Mate Security lists Gamebooks, Security Context Graph and Agentic Threat Hunting. Splunk lists Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
  • Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
  • Splunk was founded in 2003.
  • Splunk is owned by Cisco.
  • Mate Security publicly names Bridgewater Associates, Lead Bank, Merlin Entertainments, OCBC, AlphaSense and 3 more. Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.

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: 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 Mate Security and Splunk

What do Mate Security and Splunk sell?
Mate Security sells Gamebooks, Security Context Graph and Agentic Threat Hunting. Splunk sells Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
Are Mate Security and Splunk in the same category?
They share SOAR and security automation. Mate Security's primary category is AI SOC analysts and Splunk's is SIEM.
Where are Mate Security and Splunk headquartered?
Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When were Mate Security and Splunk founded?
Splunk was founded in 2003.
Who owns Mate Security and Splunk?
Splunk is owned by Cisco.
Which customers do Mate Security and Splunk name?
Mate Security publicly names Bridgewater Associates, Lead Bank, Merlin Entertainments, OCBC, AlphaSense and 3 more. Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.
Who are Mate Security and Splunk sold to?
From its own pages, Splunk sells mainly to organisations that want security, observability, and AI data on one platform.
What have Mate Security 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 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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Splunk full record

  1. [1]ProductsSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
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  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
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  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
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  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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