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Oligo vs VMware

Oligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI. VMware sells a private cloud platform that unifies compute, storage, networking, management and security. CISO Tribune files both under Cloud workload protection. 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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Oligo vs VMware: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
OligoOligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI.oligo.securityVMwareVMware sells a private cloud platform that unifies compute, storage, networking, management and security.vmware.com
What it sells
  • AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)[11]Oligo AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) delivers real-time visibility and control over every AI asset running in the environment.
  • Real-Time BOM[8]Oligo generates a Real-Time BOM that detects exactly which libraries are executed.
  • VMware Cloud Foundation[5][6][7][9][12]A unified private cloud platform that delivers consistent infrastructure across private, public and edge clouds.
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Ownership and funding
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Recent news
  • August 4, 2026Oligo Security announced the completion of a $60 million financing round, bringing its total funding to $140 million.[16]
  • August 4, 2026Oligo Security said it raised $60 million in new funding to speed up product innovation and expand its global go-to-market operations.[15]
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Who it fits
Oligo addresses security operations teams that are flooded with alerts and overwhelmed by false positives. Oligo addresses teams protecting IaaS and containerized environments and applications. Oligo pages address organizations that need to keep compliant with FedRAMP, PCI 4.0, and license policies.Its industry solutions address federal government IT, and state, local and regional government digital capabilities. Its pages also address access to university apps and resources, and the member, provider and employee experiences of the payer ecosystem. A customer named on its pages protects clinical applications with vDefend security solutions. The company offers sovereign cloud capabilities for data residency and compliance across jurisdictions.
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Where they overlap

  • Cloud workload protection is the primary category of both Oligo and VMware.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Oligo is also filed under Software composition analysis and AI model and agent security.
  • Oligo lists AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Real-Time BOM. VMware lists VMware Cloud Foundation.
  • Oligo is privately held.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Oligo and VMware under Cloud workload protection as their primary category. CISO Tribune also files Oligo under Software composition analysis and AI model and agent security. Oligo sells AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), which delivers real-time visibility and control over every AI asset running in the environment. Oligo also sells a Real-Time BOM that detects exactly which libraries are executed, and Oligo enriches SBOMs with exploitability determinations. Oligo protects workloads and hosts against malware, lateral movement and privilege escalation with a sensor built around patented eBPF technology.

VMware sells VMware Cloud Foundation, a unified private cloud platform that delivers consistent infrastructure across private, public and edge clouds. VMware Cloud Foundation includes infrastructure hardening, integrated compliance and risk management, distributed lateral security, and cyber and disaster recovery. VMware also provides distributed east-west security, signature and behavior-based detection, and network traffic analysis to identify and contain threats. Both companies address AI agents: Oligo can prevent AI agents from making unvetted egress API calls, while VMware offers a secure runtime for deploying and scaling autonomous AI agents.

Oligo is privately held. On August 4, 2026, Oligo Security announced the completion of a $60 million financing round, bringing its total funding to $140 million. Oligo Security said the new funding would speed up product innovation and expand its global go-to-market operations. St. John’s Health, a customer named on VMware's pages, protects its clinical applications with vDefend security solutions. VMware's industry solutions address federal government IT and access to university apps and resources.

What it sells: Oligo

What AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) does[11]
Oligo generates a real-time bill of materials for every AI component and dependency. Oligo can detect drift, unauthorized model changes, and risky third-party AI services.
What Real-Time BOM does[8]
Oligo enriches SBOMs with exploitability determinations. Oligo VEX and Real-Time BOMs are generated from running applications.

Questions about Oligo and VMware

What do Oligo and VMware sell?
Oligo sells AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Real-Time BOM. VMware sells VMware Cloud Foundation.
Are Oligo and VMware in the same category?
Yes. Cloud workload protection is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Who owns Oligo and VMware?
Oligo is privately held.
Who are Oligo and VMware sold to?
Oligo addresses security operations teams that are flooded with alerts and overwhelmed by false positives. Its industry solutions address federal government IT, and state, local and regional government digital capabilities.
What have Oligo and VMware announced recently?
August 4, 2026: Oligo Security announced the completion of a $60 million financing round, bringing its total funding to $140 million.

About Oligo

Oligo gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence across code, cloud, and AI.[1][3]

Oligo catches zero-days and active exploit attempts in real time. The Oligo sensor is built around patented eBPF technology that identifies when attackers start to use applications in unintended ways. Oligo ties malicious CWPP detections to exploits seen at the application layer. Oligo protects workloads and hosts against malware, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and more.[3][4][5]

Oligo can pinpoint exact containers, pods, and code paths under attack. Oligo can block or alert on unauthorized external network connections. Oligo detects risks originating in CVEs, malicious packages, misconfigurations, zero-days, undisclosed risks, and disputed vulnerabilities. Oligo flags suspicious processes, Kubernetes, network, and file activity across all workloads and hosts. Oligo can limit library-level permissions to stop breaches in progress. Oligo maps suspicious behavior across the MITRE ATT&CK framework.[3][4][5][9]

Oligo pinpoints vulnerabilities that are actively loaded into execution memory. Oligo can distinguish between vulnerable code on disk and code in execution. Oligo prioritizes risks across packages, images, and workloads based on what is running in applications. Oligo provides call stacks and runtime proof that vulnerable libraries exist in running applications. Oligo can identify malicious packages, configuration-based vulnerabilities, and libraries that have already been breached.[3][5][6][7]

Oligo makes standard SBOMs and generates a Real-Time BOM that detects exactly which libraries are executed. Oligo enriches SBOMs with exploitability determinations. Oligo VEX and Real-Time BOMs are generated from running applications. Oligo can trace malicious code back to its original source repository after detection. If attackers activate malicious code that was previously dormant, the Oligo sensor detects indicators of compromise and limits library-level permissions.[7][8][9]

Oligo enables compliance with multiple segments of PCI 4.0 Requirement 2. Oligo lets users set different allowable license types for different applications and application types, with alerts whenever policies are violated.[10]

Oligo AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) delivers real-time visibility and control over every AI asset running in the environment. Oligo safeguards open-source AI models, LLM frameworks such as LangChain/Hugging Face, and agent workflows against malicious exploits, model tampering, and unauthorized data leakage in runtime environments. Oligo can inspect model files and dependencies loaded into GPU/CPU memory. Oligo can prevent AI agents from making unvetted egress API calls. Oligo gives real-time insight into shadow AI components running in cluster. Oligo generates a real-time bill of materials for every AI component and dependency.[1][3][11]

Oligo deploys in minutes for modern cloud applications built on K8s or older applications hosted on-prem. Oligo makes no changes to customer code when it is deployed. Oligo describes the application security sensor as one sensor per host that monitors code in real time. Oligo describes cloud application and workload security as a siloed process in which SOC, AppSec, and CloudSec teams each chase their own alerts.[1][2][6][7][10][11][12][13][14]

Oligo on the record

Sources

Oligo full record

  1. [1]oligo.securityOligo Security · oligo.security · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]OLIGO Security Crosses $140M in Total Funding with $60M Round to Stop AI Driven AttacksBusiness Wire · businesswire.com · published August 4, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Runtime Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Detection and Response | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Workload Protection | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Application Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Application Vulnerability Management | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Real-Time BOM | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Supply Chain Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Compliance and Assurance | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]AI Security Management | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Runtime Security Leadership | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Security Operations | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Cloud Security | Oligo SecurityOligo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Oligo Security raises $60M as AI speeds up exploit development - SiliconANGLESiliconANGLE · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B
  16. [16]Israeli runtime security co Oligo raises $60m - GlobesGlobes · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B

VMware full record

  1. [1]vmware.comVMware · vmware.com · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]VMware by Broadcom - Cloud Computing for the EnterpriseVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]VMware ProductsVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]VMware SolutionsVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Infrastructure Modernization Solutions | VMwareVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Cloud InfrastructureVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Infrastructure Security Solutions for VMware Cloud FoundationVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]App platform | VMwareVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Private Cloud Application Modernization | VMwareVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Desktop Hypervisor Solutions | VMwareVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Industry Solutions | VMwareVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]VMware SecurityVMware · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Reviews & Product DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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