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Parsons vs RAD Security

Parsons is a global solutions provider in the national security and critical infrastructure markets that delivers integrated program management solutions. RAD Security sells AI Workers that investigate, triage, and act on threats across a customer's entire stack. CISO Tribune files both under Vulnerability management. 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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Parsons vs RAD Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ParsonsParsons is a global solutions provider in the national security and critical infrastructure markets that delivers integrated program management solutions.parsons.comRAD SecurityRAD Security sells AI Workers that investigate, triage, and act on threats across a customer's entire stack.radsecurity.ai
What it sells
  • Cyber Fly-Away KitsKits called C-FLAK for cyber defenders.
  • Digital Overwatch[4]A suite of applications, pipelines, analytics, and visual components.
  • Dynamic Spectrum Environment Emulator (DYSE)A RF channel emulator that imitates realistic RF environments.
  • Threat Representative Environment (TReX)A software and COTS hardware-based signal and channel emulator.
  • Wireless Instrumented Streaming Platform (WISP)A portable, remotely controlled wideband RF data capture and analysis tool.
  • Tactical Edge Electro-Magnetic Sensor (TEMS)A real time situational awareness plugin for ATAK.
  • ER310 Software-Defined RadioA handheld SDR platform designed to host and execute RF applications.
  • RAD Bot[6][7][8][9]An AI agent with direct access to a customer's live environment data.
  • RADQL[9][10][11]A SQL-like query language built for security data.
  • AgentKeeper[2][14]An open-source tool that maps a cloud identity attack surface.
  • Evidence Room[12]Aggregates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, runtime threats, and attack paths into one prioritized view.
  • AI Insights[13]Continuously analyzes a cloud-native environment and surfaces what matters most.
  • Explore[6][10]Asset discovery and investigation across a Kubernetes environment, powered by RAD Bot.
  • Dashboards[11]Pre-built and customizable dashboards powered by RADQL.
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Recent news
  • January 15, 2026Parsons Corporation announced it has acquired Altamira Technologies Corporation in a transaction valued at up to $375 million.[14]
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G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[2]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Parsons sells mainly to national security and critical infrastructure customers. Parsons says TReX supports various DoD, IC, and Defense Industrial Base partners. Parsons describes its Ares biometric software as designed for defense and law enforcement. Parsons describes LandForm X as an ISR mission management system designed for airborne law enforcement and search and rescue. Parsons describes Foundation as a cloud-native data integration platform built to address the complexities of government operations.RAD Security says RADQL lets security teams explore, analyze, and visualize cloud security data. The Evidence Room is described for people who are triaging alerts, remediating issues, or preparing for an audit. RAD Security provides audit-ready compliance documentation for CIS, HIPAA, and NSA Hardening frameworks, among others, and a weekly summary for leadership.
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October 14, 2026October 21, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Parsons and RAD Security are both filed under Vulnerability management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Parsons's primary category is Threat intelligence; RAD Security's is Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP).
  • Parsons is also filed under Incident response and forensics and OT and ICS security. RAD Security is also filed under Cloud workload protection and Cloud security posture management.
  • Parsons lists Cyber Fly-Away Kits, Digital Overwatch, Dynamic Spectrum Environment Emulator (DYSE), Threat Representative Environment (TReX), Wireless Instrumented Streaming Platform (WISP) and 2 more. RAD Security lists RAD Bot, RADQL, AgentKeeper, Evidence Room, AI Insights and 2 more.

What it sells: Parsons

What Cyber Fly-Away Kits does
Parsons calls these products Cyber-Fly-Away Kits (C-FLAK). Parsons says the kits have everything a cyber defender needs to efficiently achieve mission success.
What Digital Overwatch does[4]
Digital Overwatch is a suite of applications, pipelines, analytics, and visual components. Parsons says the suite enables successful mission execution.
What Dynamic Spectrum Environment Emulator (DYSE) does
DYSE is a RF channel emulator that seeks to imitate realistic RF environments, including congested and contested conditions. RF paths in DYSE can be individually programmable and emulate the impact of real-world operational conditions in a lab environment.
What Threat Representative Environment (TReX) does
TReX is a software and COTS hardware-based signal and channel emulator. Parsons describes TReX as a way to experiment, train, and plan SIGINT and EW operations. Parsons says TReX can be deployed anywhere from a laboratory to austere environments.
What Wireless Instrumented Streaming Platform (WISP) does
WISP is a portable, remotely controlled wideband RF data capture and analysis tool. WISP uses include wireless signal capture, an arbitrary signal generator, and frequency translation for both R&D and field-based operations.
What Tactical Edge Electro-Magnetic Sensor (TEMS) does
TEMS is a real time situational awareness plugin for Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK). TEMS detects RF spectrum energy in the user's environment and can be controlled using a smart phone.
What ER310 Software-Defined Radio does
The ER310 software-defined radio is a handheld SDR platform designed to host and execute RF applications. Parsons says it supports missions including assured PNT, RF situational awareness support, electronic warfare, and communications.

What it sells: RAD Security

What RAD Bot does[6][7][8][9]
RAD Bot queries a customer's live environment, correlates the results, and delivers findings with full source attribution. RAD Bot connects to Jira, Slack, ServiceNow, and email so users can escalate, assign, and remediate without leaving the conversation. RAD Bot workflows run multi-step investigations automatically and deliver results to an inbox, Slack, email, or ticketing system.
What RADQL does[9][10][11]
RADQL is a SQL-like query language built for security data. RADQL searches containers, correlates vulnerabilities, analyzes runtime behavior, and investigates incidents. RAD Bot can generate RADQL queries from natural language descriptions. RADQL results can be exported to CSV or JSON.
What AgentKeeper does[2][14]
AgentKeeper is RAD Security's open-source tool that maps a cloud identity attack surface. AgentKeeper visualizes IAM permissions, detects over-privileged roles, and uncovers hidden access paths.
What Evidence Room does[12]
The Evidence Room aggregates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, runtime threats, and attack paths into a single prioritized view. Findings in the Evidence Room are automatically mapped to compliance frameworks such as CIS, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and NIST. Findings flow into existing tools so that users can create tickets, alert teams, and export to a SIEM.
What AI Insights does[13]
AI Insights continuously analyzes a cloud-native environment and surfaces what matters most. Every insight is categorized so that issues route to the right team with the right context. Rankings are based on exploitability, blast radius, business context, and attack path relevance.
What Explore does[6][10]
Explore is powered by RAD Bot and the same query engine behind every feature on the platform. RAD Security's sensors continuously discover and track every asset in a Kubernetes environment, including containers, images, workloads, network connections, and process executions.
What Dashboards does[11]
RAD Security dashboards visualize security posture, infrastructure, and compliance data with pre-built templates, flexible widgets, and real-time updates powered by RADQL. Dashboards pull from Kubernetes, cloud, runtime, and external integrations.

Questions about Parsons and RAD Security

What do Parsons and RAD Security sell?
Parsons sells Cyber Fly-Away Kits, Digital Overwatch, Dynamic Spectrum Environment Emulator (DYSE), Threat Representative Environment (TReX), Wireless Instrumented Streaming Platform (WISP) and 2 more. RAD Security sells RAD Bot, RADQL, AgentKeeper, Evidence Room, AI Insights and 2 more.
Are Parsons and RAD Security in the same category?
They share Vulnerability management. Parsons's primary category is Threat intelligence and RAD Security's is Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP).
Who are Parsons and RAD Security sold to?
From its own pages, Parsons sells mainly to national security and critical infrastructure customers. RAD Security says RADQL lets security teams explore, analyze, and visualize cloud security data.
What have Parsons and RAD Security announced recently?
January 15, 2026: Parsons Corporation announced it has acquired Altamira Technologies Corporation in a transaction valued at up to $375 million.

About Parsons

Parsons is a global solutions provider in the national security and critical infrastructure markets that delivers integrated program management solutions. Parsons says its integrated program management solutions turn complex initiatives into measurable results.[3]

Parsons sells Cyber-Fly-Away Kits (C-FLAK), which the company says have everything a cyber defender needs to efficiently achieve mission success. Parsons sells Cyberzcape for critical infrastructure protection (CIP). Parsons describes Digital Overwatch as a suite of applications, pipelines, analytics, and visual components that enable successful mission execution. Parsons describes its Network Management Solution (NMS) as being at the forefront of protecting Land Mobile Radio (LMR) backhaul networks. Parsons sells DroneArmor, a counter unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS) solution for the security of personnel, bases, and assets from drone threats.[1][4]

The Dynamic Spectrum Environment Emulator (DYSE) is a RF channel emulator that seeks to imitate realistic RF environments, including congested and contested conditions. RF paths in DYSE can be individually programmable and emulate the impact of real-world operational conditions in a lab environment. Parsons also sells the Threat Representative Environment (TReX), which it describes as a way to experiment, train, and plan signals intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic warfare (EW) operations. TReX is a software and COTS hardware-based signal and channel emulator. Parsons says TReX supports various DoD, IC, and Defense Industrial Base partners, and that TReX can be deployed anywhere from a laboratory to austere environments. The Wireless Instrumented Streaming Platform (WISP) is a portable, remotely controlled wideband RF data capture and analysis tool.[5][6]

APS operates independently of GPS and other GNSS. Parsons says APS can be implemented as a Parsons hardware and software package or by installing APS application software on compatible non-Parsons user equipment. APS can also be implemented as a plug-in to the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) on a user smartphone.[8]

Parsons sells the ER310 software-defined radio, a handheld SDR platform designed to host and execute RF applications. Parsons says the ER310 supports missions including assured PNT, RF situational awareness support, electronic warfare, and communications. Peanut SDRs are available in compact enclosures for dismounted and mounted use or as an OEM circuit card. TEMS detects RF spectrum energy in the user's environment and can be controlled using a smart phone.[8][9][10]

Parsons describes Ace CtrlPoint as an automated space vehicle and ground station command and control (C2) application. Parsons describes C2Core as a combined JADC2 capability suite of command and control tools built by operators for operators and used across multiple domains. Parsons describes Foundation as a cloud-native data integration platform built to address the complexities of government operations. Parsons sells iNET Asset Guardian to monitor, track, and maintain roadway assets and ITS devices. Paradim is a cloud-hosted and software-agnostic asset and data information management solution from Parsons.[4][11]

Parsons sells SatFlyer, a software toolset that provides full-lifecycle flight-dynamics capabilities, orbit calculation and attitude determination. Parsons provides multi-manifest flight systems and launch integration capabilities to operationalize access to space for small space systems. Parsons operates a systems integration laboratory in Los Angeles, CA.[1][4][5][7][8][10][12][13]

Parsons on the record

Sources

Parsons full record

  1. [1]CyberParsons Corporation · parsons.com · undated page, accessed October 14, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Parsons Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier C
  3. [3]Parsons CorporationParsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Products | Parsons CorporationParsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]RF Channel Emulator | DYSEParsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]SIGINT And Electronic Warfare Channel Emulator | TReX®Parsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Wideband RF Data Capture | WISP™Parsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Assured Positioning, Navigation And Timing (APNT) | APSParsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Software-Defined Radio | ER310™Parsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Tactical Edge Electro-Magnetic Sensor | TEMS™Parsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Asset Management Solution | Paradim®Parsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Full-Lifecycle Flight-Dynamics Capabilities | SatFlyer™Parsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Space Access | Parsons ProductsParsons · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Parsons Acquires Altamira Technologies CorporationParsons Corporation · published January 15, 2026 · Tier A

RAD Security full record

  1. [1]Female foundersRAD Security · radsecurity.ai · published April 29, 2024 · Tier A
  2. [2]radsecurity.aiRAD Security · radsecurity.ai · undated page, accessed October 21, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]PressRAD Security · radsecurity.ai · undated page, accessed October 21, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]AI-Native Cloud Security Platform | RAD Security | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Stop Managing Alerts. Start Running Security. | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Explore — Asset Discovery & Investigation | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Ask RAD — AI Security Assistant | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Knowledge Base — Searchable Security Knowledge | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]RADQL — Security Query Language | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]RADQL Engine — Advanced Security Analytics | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Security Dashboards — Real-Time Visibility | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Evidence Room — Unified Security Findings | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]AI Insights — Prioritized Security Intelligence | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Exports | RAD Security | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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