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RAD Security vs VMware

RAD Security sells AI Workers that investigate, triage, and act on threats across a customer's entire stack. 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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RAD Security vs VMware: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
RAD SecurityRAD Security sells AI Workers that investigate, triage, and act on threats across a customer's entire stack.radsecurity.aiVMwareVMware sells a private cloud platform that unifies compute, storage, networking, management and security.vmware.com
What it sells
  • 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.
  • 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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Who it fits
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.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

  • RAD Security and VMware are both filed under Cloud workload protection.

Where they differ, field by field

  • RAD Security's primary category is Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP); VMware's is Cloud workload protection.
  • RAD Security is also filed under Cloud security posture management and Vulnerability management.
  • RAD Security lists RAD Bot, RADQL, AgentKeeper, Evidence Room, AI Insights and 2 more. VMware lists VMware Cloud Foundation.

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 RAD Security and VMware

What do RAD Security and VMware sell?
RAD Security sells RAD Bot, RADQL, AgentKeeper, Evidence Room, AI Insights and 2 more. VMware sells VMware Cloud Foundation.
Are RAD Security and VMware in the same category?
They share Cloud workload protection. RAD Security's primary category is Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) and VMware's is Cloud workload protection.
Who are RAD Security and VMware sold to?
RAD Security says RADQL lets security teams explore, analyze, and visualize cloud security data. Its industry solutions address federal government IT, and state, local and regional government digital capabilities.

About RAD Security

RAD Security sells AI Workers that investigate, triage, and act on threats across a customer's entire stack. RAD Security describes its AI Workers as purpose-built agents that triage, route, and act, with every action traceable and every decision explainable. RAD Security connects security tools through an MCP server and 50+ integrations that form a single data fabric. Integrations in the RAD Security platform ingest alerts, logs, and findings that are timestamped and source-tagged. RAD Security analyzes, correlates, and enriches every signal against live runtime context.[1][2][4][5][6]

RAD Security's cloud security posture view covers AWS, GCP, Azure, and Linode and displays misconfigured resources, IAM issues, and compliance status. RAD Security's Kubernetes security posture view covers cluster misconfigurations, RBAC issues, and CIS Benchmark scoring. RAD Security's runtime security monitoring shows runtime threats and behavioral anomalies detected by eBPF sensors across all clusters. RAD Security's software supply chain view covers SBOM coverage, dependency vulnerabilities, and package provenance.[2][5]

RAD Security deploys lightweight eBPF-based agents that collect runtime signals. RAD Security's sensors continuously discover and track every asset in a Kubernetes environment, including containers, images, workloads, network connections, process executions, and their relationships to each other. RAD Security streams Kubernetes API events and tracks resource creation, modification, and deletion as they happen. RAD Security's image scanning is continuous, detects CVEs, and generates software bills of materials. RAD Security includes an admission controller that catches policy violations before they reach clusters.[4][6][7]

RAD Bot is an AI agent with direct access to a customer's live environment data through three connected layers. 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 can query data from EDR, SIEM, vulnerability scanners, and ticketing systems through a single conversation. RAD Bot covers AWS CloudTrail activity, cloud posture findings, and identity and access signals from Okta, Entra ID, and Google Workspace. RAD Bot automatically searches the Knowledge Base for relevant context and cites sources in every answer. RAD Security's Knowledge Base accepts PDFs, Markdown, CSVs, or plain text. RAD Bot workflows run multi-step investigations automatically and deliver results to an inbox, Slack, email, or ticketing system.[7][8]

RADQL is a SQL-like query language built for security data. RADQL is included with every RAD Security deployment. RADQL queries span containers, vulnerabilities, runtime events, cloud resources, and identity signals with a single, consistent schema. RADQL results can be exported to CSV or JSON. RAD Security offers 9 pre-built dashboard templates covering findings, containers, runtime, and compliance. RAD Security dashboards can track misconfigurations mapped to NIST 800-53 controls with compliance scores.[9][11]

The Evidence Room in RAD Security aggregates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, runtime threats, and attack paths into a single prioritized view. In the Evidence Room, findings are automatically mapped to compliance frameworks such as CIS, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and NIST for audit readiness. Evidence Room findings flow into existing tools so that users can create tickets, alert teams, and export to a SIEM. RAD Security provides audit-ready compliance documentation for CIS, PCI-DSS, SOC2, HIPAA, and NSA Hardening frameworks.[2][5][12]

AI Insights in RAD Security continuously analyzes a cloud-native environment and surfaces what matters most. AI Insights rankings are based on exploitability, blast radius, business context, and attack path relevance. AgentKeeper is RAD Security's open-source tool that maps a cloud identity attack surface. RAD Security states that its infrastructure is SOC 2 Type 2 certified.[2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

RAD Security on the record

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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

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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