Radiant Security Alternatives After the Cribl Deal (2026 Guide)

Last updated: September 2026.

On August 19, 2026, Cribl announced that it had acquired the technology assets behind Radiant Security’s AI SOC product and will run that technology as an application on its telemetry platform. Public statements so far do not say what happens to Radiant’s standalone product, contracts, or support, so current customers should get those answers in writing. If you are comparing Radiant Security alternatives, this guide covers what is confirmed, what to ask, a migration checklist, and eight options described from public sources.

Key takeaways

Cribl’s announcement describes buying technology assets and intellectual property from Radiant’s AI SOC product. It does not describe buying Radiant Security the company. Terms were not disclosed.
As of September 28, 2026, Cribl had not published a product name, pricing, or availability date for the resulting application.
Nothing public yet covers the standalone Radiant platform, existing contracts, support, or data in Radiant’s log management. Ask your account team, in writing.
Choose your replacement model first (an AI layer on your SIEM, or a platform that also stores logs), then pilot two or three vendors before renewal.

What happened: the Radiant Security Cribl acquisition

Here is what the public record shows as of September 28, 2026.

The deal. On August 19, 2026, Cribl announced it had acquired technology assets from Radiant Security’s AI-native SOC product, including the intellectual property for autonomously triaging, investigating, and resolving alerts. SiliconANGLE reported that terms were not disclosed.
The plan. Cribl says it is adapting the technology to run as an application on its telemetry data platform, generating triage logic per alert rather than using prebuilt playbooks. CEO Clint Sharp told Security Boulevard that Cribl plans to roll out an AI SOC platform that uses its telemetry management to lower security costs.
The pattern. In July, Cribl acquired CardinalOps, a detection engineering company, and said the combined capabilities would form an open alternative to legacy SIEM architectures.
What comes next. Cribl said more platform additions would be shared at CriblCon, which runs September 28 to 30, 2026 in Chicago. Check Cribl’s newsroom for later announcements.

What Radiant sold

Radiant launched what it called an adaptive AI SOC platform in April 2025. The launch announcement described alert triage and investigation, remediation recommendations, and log management pitched as a lower-cost option than a traditional SIEM, querying customer archive storage such as Amazon S3. Pricing was based on use cases and users, not alert volume.

So some customers used Radiant as an AI analyst on top of another SIEM, while others also kept their logs in it. Your exit plan depends on which group you are in.

What has not been said publicly

Cribl’s release and the coverage we reviewed do not address:

Whether the standalone Radiant platform will still be sold, updated, or supported, and for how long.
Which entity now holds customer contracts and support commitments, and whether Radiant’s team joined Cribl.
What happens to data stored in Radiant’s log management.
How current licenses map to the Cribl application, and whether it will require other Cribl products.

We did not find a public customer-continuity statement from Radiant. An asset purchase announcement does not by itself tell you who is responsible for your contract, a point D3 Security, which sells a competing AI SOC product, also made on the day of the deal. Until answers are published, your account team is the source of truth.

What Radiant customers should do now

Questions to ask your account team

Which company now holds my contract, and who owns support and SLAs through the end of my term?
Will the Radiant platform keep getting model, detection, and connector updates? Is there an end-of-sale or end-of-life date?
Will the Cribl version require Cribl Stream, Lake, or other licenses? How do my entitlements carry over, and at what price?
Where is my data stored, who processes it, and are the data processing agreement and security attestations still valid?
If I leave, what can I export, in what format, and how will you confirm deletion?
Will integrations with my SIEM, EDR, identity, and email tools keep working during any transition?

Contract and data export considerations

Reread key clauses: assignment and change of control, termination rights, refunds of prepaid fees, and data return. Involve legal and procurement early.
Export investigation history: verdicts, case notes, timelines, and audit logs, which you may need for audits or to benchmark a new tool.
Export configuration: custom rules, suppressions, response actions, approval settings, and connected sources.
Secure your logs: if Radiant holds data you must retain for compliance, confirm where it lives and keep it readable until retention ends.
Plan credential cleanup: list every API key, service account, and OAuth grant issued to Radiant so you can revoke them on exit.

Migration checklist

Inventory what Radiant does today: alert sources, alert types it closes alone, response actions, log sources, retention, and reports.
Record a baseline: weekly alert volume, share closed without a human, escalations, and time to respond.
Pick your target model: AI layer on your current SIEM, or a platform that also stores logs.
Pilot two or three vendors on the same alert stream in parallel.
Rebuild response actions with explicit approval rules before allowing automated containment.
Move log retention and keep the old archive readable; record the cutover date for auditors.
Run old and new side by side for a set period, then cut over and revoke Radiant’s access.

What to look for in a Radiant Security replacement

Our AI SOC buyer’s guide has the full framework. When weighing AI SOC alternatives as a Radiant customer, focus on:

Deployment model. An AI layer investigates alerts from the SIEM you already run. An AI-native platform also collects, stores, and detects on logs. See what an AI SOC is and what an agentic SOC is.
Connectors for your stack. Confirm your SIEM, EDR, identity, email, and cloud sources are supported today, not on a roadmap.
Response with guardrails. Approval steps, scoped permissions, audit trails, and reversible actions. AI SOC vs SOAR explains how this differs from playbooks.
Visible reasoning. Analysts should see what was checked and why a verdict was reached.
Predictable pricing. Vendors charge by alerts, endpoints, data volume, users, or plan tier. Model each against your numbers.
Vendor durability. KuppingerCole tracks 123 AI SOC vendors in 2026 and expects about twenty to remain independent, comprehensive vendors by 2030. Ask every vendor about data portability.

Analyst coverage helps build a shortlist but is not a verdict for your environment. Gartner’s 2026 Hype Cycle for Security Operations places AI SOC agents at the Peak of Inflated Expectations, and a Gartner prediction quoted in Help Net Security says only 15% of large SOCs piloting AI agents will see measurable improvement without structured evaluation.

8 Radiant Security alternatives to evaluate

Listed alphabetically, not ranked. Descriptions come from each vendor’s public materials. Jutsu publishes this blog and is included as one entry.

7AI

7AI describes an agentic security platform whose AI agents take on repetitive SOC work such as alert investigation. In July 2026 it launched 7AI Federated SIEM, which queries and acts on data in 7AI’s data lake, an existing SIEM, or both. A managed option has 7AI’s team run the platform 24×7.

Best suited for: larger teams open to a federated alternative to centralizing all data in one SIEM.
Deployment model: AI layer over existing data stores, with an optional federated SIEM.
Public recognition: Gartner sample vendor for AI SOC agents (2026); SACR 2026 Innovator; KuppingerCole 2026 Vendor to Watch.

Cribl (Radiant’s technology, post-acquisition)

Cribl sells a telemetry data platform (Stream, Edge, Lake, and Search). In a July 2026 post, its CEO described Cribl’s security direction as a more open alternative to the SIEM teams run today. The Radiant technology is being adapted into an application on that platform, with no published name, pricing, or availability date as of September 28, 2026.

Best suited for: teams already routing security telemetry through Cribl, and Radiant customers who want continuity and can wait for details.
Deployment model: application on Cribl’s telemetry platform (details pending).
Public facts: acquired CardinalOps (July 2026) and Radiant’s AI SOC assets (August 2026).

Dropzone AI

Dropzone AI sells an AI SOC Analyst that investigates each alert end to end and shows its reasoning, with no playbooks or code. It connects to tools such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and CrowdStrike through 90+ integrations without data migration or log normalization. Dropzone also offers an AI threat hunting agent.

Best suited for: teams keeping their SIEM and EDR that want more investigation capacity.
Deployment model: AI layer over your existing SIEM and tools.
Public recognition: Gartner sample vendor for AI SOC agents in 2025 and 2026; SACR 2026 Pioneer; KuppingerCole 2026 Vendor to Watch.

Exaforce

Exaforce offers an agentic SOC platform with four AI agents (Exabots) for detection, triage, investigation, and response, running on its own data platform and knowledge graph. Exaforce positions that data platform as a SIEM replacement, lists 100+ integrations, and also sells a managed detection and response (MDR) service.

Best suited for: teams that want to replace their SIEM and add AI investigation, or want a managed option.
Deployment model: AI-native platform with its own data layer; self-managed or MDR.
Public recognition: Gartner sample vendor for AI SOC agents (2026); SACR 2026 Innovator.

Intezer

Intezer AI SOC triages, investigates, and responds to alerts by pairing forensic techniques (endpoint analysis, memory scanning, reverse engineering, and built-in threat intelligence) with AI models. It lists 100+ integrations, uses endpoint-based pricing, and markets itself partly as an MDR alternative.

Best suited for: teams with heavy endpoint and malware alert volume, or looking to supplement or replace MDR.
Deployment model: AI layer over your existing SIEM and tools.
Public recognition: Gartner sample vendor for AI SOC agents (2026); SACR 2026 Pioneer; KuppingerCole 2026 Vendor to Watch.

Jutsu AgentSOC

AgentSOC is Jutsu’s AI-native security operations platform. Per the documentation, incoming events are normalized, enriched against multiple threat intelligence sources, scored, triaged, and correlated into incidents, and uncertain alerts escalate to analysts. The built-in AgentSOAR module runs logged, reversible response actions (such as blocking IPs, isolating hosts, or disabling users) across providers including AWS, Azure, GCP, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.

Native log sources today are Wazuh, Google Workspace, and syslog; Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, and other connectors are listed as coming soon on the integrations page, so check fit if you ran Radiant on one of those. Pricing is public: a Free plan, Startup at $149 per month, Growth at $499 per month (both with 90 days searchable and 365 days total retention), and custom Enterprise plans with private cloud, on-premises, data residency, and multi-tenant MSSP options.

Best suited for: small and midsize teams, and MSSPs on Enterprise, wanting detection, triage, and response in one platform with published pricing.
Deployment model: AI-native platform covering log collection, detection, triage, and response.
Public recognition: none of the analyst reports cited here include Jutsu.

Prophet Security

Prophet Security sells an agentic AI SOC platform with an AI SOC Analyst, AI Threat Hunter, and AI Detection Engineer. The analyst investigates every alert on arrival and can take scoped response actions that are previewed and backtested first. Prophet lists 200+ integrations, offers single-tenant deployment with bring-your-own-key, and sells a 24×7 human-in-the-loop service called Watchtower.

Best suited for: teams keeping their SIEM or data lake that want investigation plus detection engineering, with strict data isolation needs.
Deployment model: AI layer over your existing SIEM, data lake, and tools.
Public recognition: Gartner sample vendor for AI SOC agents (2026); SACR 2026 Innovator; KuppingerCole 2026 Vendor to Watch.

Torq

Torq calls its product an AI SOC platform: automated triage, case management, customizable AI agents (HyperAgents), an agentic orchestrator named Socrates, and a hyperautomation workflow engine. It lists 300 prebuilt integrations and works alongside your existing SIEM.

Best suited for: teams replacing a legacy SOAR or running many automated workflows across a large tool stack.
Deployment model: AI and automation layer over your existing SIEM and tools.
Public recognition: Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole 2026 Emerging AI SOC Leadership Compass; named Company to Beat in AI SOC agents for threat investigation in a May 2026 Gartner AI Vendor Race report, per Torq; SACR 2026 Innovator.

Radiant Security alternatives compared

Vendor	Approach	Replaces SIEM?	Notable public facts	Source
7AI	Agentic AI platform; managed option	Offers a federated SIEM	Gartner sample vendor (2026); SACR 2026 Innovator	7AI release
Cribl	Telemetry platform; Radiant technology becoming an app	Pitched as an open SIEM alternative; app details pending	Bought CardinalOps (July 2026) and Radiant assets (August 2026)	Cribl release
Dropzone AI	AI SOC analyst layer	No	Gartner sample vendor (2025, 2026); SACR 2026 Pioneer	Dropzone blog
Exaforce	AI-native platform with own data layer; MDR option	Yes, positioned as a SIEM replacement	Gartner sample vendor (2026); SACR 2026 Innovator	Exaforce site
Intezer	Forensic AI SOC layer	No	Gartner sample vendor (2026); SACR 2026 Pioneer	Intezer blog
Jutsu AgentSOC	AI-native SOC platform with built-in AgentSOAR	Designed to consolidate SIEM and SOAR; limited native log sources today	Public pricing and a free plan	Jutsu pricing
Prophet Security	AI analyst, hunter, and detection engineer layer	No	Gartner sample vendor (2026); SACR 2026 Innovator	SACR report
Torq	AI SOC platform with hyperautomation	No	KuppingerCole 2026 Overall Leader; SACR 2026 Innovator	Torq blog

FAQ

Did Cribl acquire Radiant Security?

Cribl announced on August 19, 2026 that it acquired technology assets and intellectual property from Radiant Security’s AI SOC product. The announcement describes an asset purchase and does not say Cribl bought the company. Terms were not disclosed.

Is Radiant Security still supported for existing customers?

As of September 28, 2026, this has not been stated publicly. Ask your account team who owns your contract and support obligations, and get the answer in writing.

Will Radiant’s technology require the Cribl platform?

Cribl says it is adapting the technology to run as an application on its telemetry data platform. It has not published licensing, pricing, or whether other Cribl products will be required. More detail may come out of CriblCon.

What are the best Radiant Security alternatives?

It depends on how you used Radiant. For an AI analyst on top of an existing SIEM, look at layer products such as Dropzone AI, Prophet Security, Intezer, or Torq. If you also stored logs in Radiant, look at options with their own data layer, such as Exaforce, 7AI’s federated SIEM, Jutsu AgentSOC, or Cribl if you already use it. Pilot two or three on your own alerts.

Should we wait for Cribl’s roadmap before deciding?

If renewal is months away, waiting for CriblCon details is reasonable, as long as you use the time to export data and record baseline metrics. If a renewal or compliance audit is close, start a parallel pilot now so you have a working option either way.